RIYADH: The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center has stepped up aid projects in Yemen, Afghanistan, Syria and Sudan.
KSrelief’s prosthetics center in Yemen has provided help to hundreds of people in the war-torn country. The project offers physical therapy and other services to assist those who have lost limbs to reintegrate into society.
The rehabilitation center in Marib governorate provided 728 services to 216 beneficiaries in one month, including the manufacture, fitting, delivery and maintenance of prosthetic limbs for 60 patients.
Other treatments, including physical therapy and consultation sessions, were also provided for 156 patients.
Meanwhile, KSrelief distributed food packages in Afghanistan, Syria and Sudan.
In Afghanistan, about 350 food packages were distributed to orphans and widows, as well as needy residents, in Kandahar Province, benefitting thousands of people affected by floods this year.
In Jindires in Syria’s Aleppo governorate, 1,580 food packages and 1,580 hygiene kits were provided to families affected by the earthquake in February.
The center has also sent its first aid shipment to Sudan via the Saudi relief sea bridge, comprising 50 tons of food products. KSrelief also distributed 75 food baskets to 549 displaced families in Gezira state as part of the Saudi relief air bridge.
The KSrelief aid aims to alleviate the suffering of people affected by natural disasters across the world, helping thousands of families in need.
KSrelief has implemented 2,374 projects worth more than $6.2 billion in 91 countries. The initiatives were carried out in cooperation with 175 local, regional and international partners since the inception of the center in May 2015.
According to a recent KSrelief report, countries and territories that benefited most from the center’s projects were Yemen ($4.2 billion), Palestine ($370 million), Syria ($367 million) and Somalia ($232 million).
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