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Kuwait to send delegation to help flood-stricken Pakistanis |
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Monday, 02 August 2010 23:02 |
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KUWAIT, Aug 2 (KUNA) -- Secretary-General of the Kuwait Joint Relief Committee Faisal Al-Jeeran said here on Monday that a delegation from the Committee will travel next Thursday to Pakistan for the distribution of relief assistance
and basic needs for victims and displaced persons as a result of floods that swept northwestern Pakistan.
Al-Jeeran told KUNA that the Committee at its meeting this morning, headed by Ahmed Saad Al-Jasser, acting Chairman of the Committee, decided to send a delegation to Pakistan for the distribution of relief supplies to flood-stricken people through coordination with the charge d'affaires at the Embassy of the State of Kuwait to Islamabad, Falah Al-Mutairi in order to facilitate the task of the delegation.
He explained that the Committee has sent 100,000 Kuwaiti dinars (nearly USD 330,000) as an initial assistance to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to deliver it to the affected population there.
He appealed to charities and philanthropists and benefactors in Kuwait to move quickly to aid flood victims in in north-west Pakistan, which killed and displaced more than 1,100 people, according to the latest official sources in Pakistan. - Kuna
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