Kuwait's charity sends 39 aid trucks to refugees in Yemen, Syria
Kuwait's Al-Salam charity dispatched Friday 39 trucks of humanitarian aid to Syrian and Yemeni refugee camps.
The move came at the end of the 'Nawaf humanitarian aid trucks' campaign which was launched, by the charity on January 14. In total, the campaign sent 311 trucks full of relief aid to Syrian and Yemeni refugees over a period of 40 days.
In a press statement, head of the society Dr. Nabil Al-Oun said the dispatched aid include foodstuff, clothes, shoes, blankets, sheets, and wood and coal for heating as well as detergents.
The Nawaf aid campaign follows 'Sabah Al-Ahmad humanitarian trucks' campaign which was organized by the society over the past years, Al-Oun noted.
Over the past few years, the society sent 206 trucks of carrying relief aid worth of KD 6.5 million (about USD 21.4 million) to Syrian and Yemeni refugee camps, he pointed out.