Kuwait Red Crescent reaches refugees in mountains

BEIRUT, Jan 9 (KUNA) -- Teams of Kuwait Red Crescent Society delivered food and other necessities to Syrian refugee in Iqlim Al-Kharroub, a mountainous region located southeast of the Lebanese capital.
Menhel Al-Enezi, a member of the field team, told KUNA that 350 food rations and 700 bedclothes were given to refugee families in the region, part of the Mount Lebanon province. The Kuwaiti teams also provided identical materials, sweets and toys to the refugees and their children in Shebaa, a town in southeastern Lebanon.
Meanwhile, Yousef Boutros, operations' coordinator at the Lebanese Red Cross, affirmed that the ongoing Kuwaiti aid deliveries to the refugees will certainly help them cope with the hard winter conditions, lauding the volunteers for braving heavy snow and rains for securing the aid to the impoverished Syrians, many live in shanty towns in remote and border regions.
KRCS officials have vowed to do everything possible to help the refugees no matter how hard the weather conditions may be. Lebanon has been hit with a snow storm that has rendered color of much of the mountainous region white, with some villages being isolated due to the piling snow.
The society is celebrating its golden jubilee on Sunday, boasting a long record of relief and humanitarian missions worldwide. (end) ma.rk