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RIYADH: ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ continues to play a key role in providing humanitarian assistance to Arab, Islamic and allied countries with an aim to decrease human sufferings caused by natural disasters or wars.
The service to Islam and Muslims has been at the top of the Kingdom’s priorities because of the Islamic relevance of the Kingdom. It has been consistently offering all-round support to all Arab and Islamic countries.
The Kingdom has established mosques, schools and universities, and provided them with millions of copies of the Holy Qur’an.
According to the latest statistics, dated Shawwal 20, 1437 AH, the Kingdom, through the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center, provided 88 relief programs where 63,171,033 people benefited, and the amount reached $446 million. Medical aid has been provided to more than 16.6 million people.
Food security programs provided by the Kingdom through the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center included Kyrgyzstan, Albania, Somalia, Mauritania, Zambia, Iraq, Tajikistan and Yemen.
The center has played a leading role in helping Yemenis since the the coup in that country last year, besides $274 million presented by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman to the Yemeni people through the United Nations organizations in coordination with the Higher Relief Committee.
The report revealed that Saudi government has provided medical and health care services to Syrian refugees at the Zaatari camp in northern Jordan, through Saudi clinics in 14 medical specialties, as well as providing a pharmacy, laboratories, a section each for X-rays and psychological support.
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center continued its campaigns and helped Iraqis with tons of food items by airplanes under the direction of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques.
Aid has been provided to many more countries, including Gambia, Senegal, Mauritania, Burkina Faso and Ghana, as well as Benin, Algeria, Niger, Cameroon, Tanzania, Lebanon, Jordan, Ethiopia, Zanzibar, Djibouti and the Comoros, Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Maldives, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and the Philippines.