KUWAIT: Kuwait
Red Crescent Society (KRCS) announced yesterday distribution of 2,300 food
parcels to Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh in coordination with Bangladesh Red
Crescent Society. Each portion, handed over to a five-member family, is
sufficient for two weeks, said Anwar Al-Hasawi, the KRCS Deputy Chairman and
head of the society field team in Bangladesh.

He added that
KRCS is continuing relief operations for the Rohingya either in coordination
with local and international associations or directly by volunteers who have
been doing their best to make sure that the aid supplies are delivered to those
in need. The KRCS team has inspected refugees' conditions in the region of
Cox's Bazar and a makeshift hospital built with contributions by the Kuwaiti,
Bangladeshi and Qatari red crescents.

He has underlined
necessity of the mission to asses needs of the refugees in general, the
children, elderly and those of special needs in particular. More than 700,000
Muslim Rohingya have fled persecution in Myanmar to neighboring Bangladesh
since 2016. Kuwait has dispatched batches of aid to the refugees, bulk of whom
live in squalid conditions.

In other news,
Kuwaiti relief aid bodies operating in Yemen pledged to provide continuing
assistance across the country worth a total $2.3 million amid talks with other
assistance-providing Gulf countries on Thursday. The attending bodies at the
meeting, held at the Riyadh-based King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief
Center, were Kuwait's Foreign Ministry, KRCS and the Kuwait Relief Society. In
the first half of 2019, some 309,000 Yemenis benefited from campaigns launched
by KRCS, according to Abdulsalam Baaboud, member of the Yemeni Higher Relief
Committee. These campaigns, worth a collective $3.3 million, have targeted
sectors, such as food, education and water, he said. - KUNA