KUWAIT: Kuwaiti
humanitarian and welfare associations are helping low-income families with
donations at launch of the new scholastic season where financial burdens on
them noticeably pile up. As regularly each year, Kuwait Red Crescent Society
(KRCS) has distributed 2,000 school bags, stationary and uniforms for children
of these families. KRCS Chairman Dr Hilal Al-Sayer said in a statement that the
society would continue aiding these families in future years.

Almost
simultaneously, the society has launched the project, "donate to educate
them," to aid students - for the sixth year in a row. The KRCS deputy
chairman, Anwar Al-Hasawi, said in a statement, on margins of launching the
campaign at 360 Mall, that the society would cover school fees for 5,000
students. Last year, the society paid the school fees for 4,260 students,
including 22 ones of special needs, he said.

In Sudan, the
International Al-Rahma Organization distributed aid to people affected with the
floods in Khartoum's suburbs. Up to 1,000 food parcels were distributed to
people stricken with the catastrophe. Moreover, the KRCS executed during August
a number of multifaceted humanitarian projects in the war-torn country of Yemen,
said an official. KRCS Director General Abdulrahman Al-Oun revealed that the
project - carried out in coordination with Yemen's Estijaba (response) network
- provided necessary medical equipment and water resources to the Yemeni
people.

Fifteen incubators
were provided to a number of hospitals in Yemen with 5,670 premature babies
benefiting from the medical apparatus, Oun noted, adding that water wells were
also dug in Yemen's Sah city offering clean water to 1,320 people. He further
indicated that the KRCS also carried out Eid Udhiya (sacrificial meat) projects
in the several towns and cities in Yemen, benefiting 4,266 people. A
cornerstone for a well project in Marib city was set, Oun pointed out, saying
that 3,500 families will benefit from the well. Meanwhile, the KRCS Director
General called on those eager to do more good for the Yemeni people to continue
providing a helping hand, stressing that their contributions were important.

Meanwhile in
Ankara, Turkey, the Kuwaiti urologist Dr Faisal Al-Hajeri said that he and
another Kuwaiti surgeon, Dr Azzam Al-Zair, conducted seven surgical operations
for Syrian refugees in the Turkish towns of Reyhanli and Hatay in two days.
Among the Syrians who underwent operations were two children, injured during
the war in their home country, he said. The two Kuwaiti doctors along with Dr
Abdullah Al-Nuaimi from Qatar have also examined 20 patients of various ages.
Kuwait has been regularly aiding a large numbers of the Syrian refugees at
Turkish cities and shanty towns. - KUNA