Kuwait III media ctre highlights plight of Syrian refugees

KUWAIT, March 30 (KUNA) -- The media centre, which is accompanying Tuesday's third humanitarian donor talks for Syria, is hosting several exhibitions for international charities and relief agencies highlighting the plight of the Syrian people amid their conflict which has entered a fifth year.
These exhibitions are displaying photographs highlighting the toll of the terrible ordeal on the Syrian people, particularly children, and relief being administered to the refugees and displaced families offering them essential needs like medicine, clean drinking water and education.
Wings administered by these bodies are also handing out publications and information to the press including date and information pertaining to the largest refugee exodus in the world.
Kuwait's Revival of Islamic Heritage, Syria relief committee secretary Faisal Hassouni said that the body has launched two schools at the elementary and kindergarten levels in Idlib.
The committee has also launched six accommodation projects within Syria itself, in Lebanon and Jordan along with bakeries, restaurants in Homs and Deir Ezzour which are handing out 88,000 meals a month to residents.
It has also constructed 15 medical centres and is providing care to 3,000 orphans before dispatching over 120 relief convoys to Syria, Lebanon and Jordan.
The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) programmes deputy coordinator Abdullah Jaafar thanked Kuwait for its humanitarian contributions in support of the Syrian people.
The UN body received USD 110 million in the first talks in Kuwait and USD 100 million in the second a year later, he said, and this helped in providing assistance to over 3.5 million people inside Syria and across neighbouring countries.
Kuwait's contributions are the best example of the noble humanitarian stance currently being assumed by His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah towards crises in various parts of the world, Syrian in particular - the worst humanitarian catastrophe of the century. (end) kt.sd