Saudi aid agency chief meets foreign envoys

Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeeah, the supervisor general of Saudi aid agency KSrelief, on Tuesday met with the Malaysian ambassador to the Kingdom, Datuk Wan Zaidi Wan Abdullah, in Riyadh.

During the meeting, they discussed relief projects and humanitarian work in the Southeast Asian country.

The envoy praised Saudi efforts through KSrelief to help needy people around the world and described the Riyadh-based center as a key player in international humanitarian work.

Al-Rabeeah also held talks with the Mauritian ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Shaukat Ali Soudhan, which focused on recent projects implemented in the East African nation and humanitarian aid issues of mutual concern.

Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia on Tuesday sent a 33rd planeload of aid for the people of Gaza. The KSrelief-operated aircraft, carrying 18 tons of medical supplies, flew from King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh to Al-Arish International Airport in Egypt.

In Yemen, KSrelief recently launched a program for pediatric hematology and oncology in the city of Mukalla in the Hadramout governorate. The seven volunteer medical specialists assigned to the project, which runs until Dec. 22, had to date examined 24 children with cancerous tumors.

The initiative is part of an ongoing series of volunteer medical schemes being carried out by KSrelief to provide specialized treatment for low-income patients around the world.

In Chad, the agency handed out 2,000 cartons of dates to 12,000 people in Moundou city in the Central African country’s western Logone Occidental region. Overall, the center aims to distribute 300 tons of dates throughout nine Chadian states.

And in Pakistan, KSrelief distributed 350 food baskets to 2,450 people affected by floods in the Broghil Valley of the Upper Chitral District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province as part of phase two of a project to support food security in Pakistan.