Kuwait's KRCS offers more food to displaced Iraqis from Mosul

IRBIL, Jan 16 (KUNA) -- The Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) on Monday offered 860 food packages to displaced Iraqis from Mosul who are staying in Irbil, in collaboration with Kuwait's General Consulate in Iraqi Kurdistan.
Today's food packages were offered to about 5,000 people, in cooperation with the Barzani Charity Foundation (BCF), director of the catastrophes and emergency department at the KRCS Yusuf Fahd Al-Maraaj told KUNA.
This is part of the KRCS's campaign to help the displaced Iraqis from Mosul, who are staying outside camps in Irbil's Kasanzan area, he added.
The aid came in response to the call by His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, the "Humanitarian Leader," to alleviate the sufferings of the Iraqi people.
Meanwhile, the KRCS signed today two contracts with a company in Iraqi Kurdistan to build five schools and three health units in the cities of Irbil and Dahuk.
A member in the Irbil spoke to KUNA expressing gratitude to the State of Kuwait for its support to Iraqis, urging the Kuwaiti people to carry on with their assistance. (end) sbr.msa