Kuwait delivers aid to refugees in S. Lebanon

BEIRUT, Jan 8 (KUNA) -- Kuwait Red Crescent Society, engaged in an ongoing campaign to secure assistance to as many Syrian refugees as possible in Lebanon and other countries neighboring Syria, has handed over relief supplies to Syrians in southern Lebanon.
Athbi Al-Nuwaiem, member of the society team, told KUNA on Friday that the association distributed detergents and bedclothes to 300 Syrian families at Al-Wazzani town, located close to the southern borders.
He re-affirmed keenness on delivering aid to refugees settled in remote regions, despite hard geographic and security conditions.
Al-Wazzani, some 70 kms from the capital Beirut and close to the southern border line, was recently targeted with volleys of shells fired by the Israeli artillery units.
The Kuwaiti philanthropic association is distributing aid, this month, to 30,000 Syrian refugees. Some of the humanitarian work is being done in coordination with the Qatari relief society.
KRCS officials have affirmed that hard winter conditions, namely heavy snow, will not prevent its teams from reaching the refugees in mountainous and far areas. Lebanon has recently witnessed a snow storm that caused damage and blocked many roads.
The country hosts more than one million Syrian refugees.(end) ma.rk