Saudi Arabia’s $12.7 Billion Relief Efforts: King Salman’s Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center

2024-02-06 10:19:17

Sakaka – Saudi Arabia has spent 12,700 million dollars on relief activities in the world in twenty-seven years, according to Royal Court advisor and King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center Supervisor General Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabi’a said. Dr. was giving a lecture at Aljouf University on the title of Saudi Arabia’s efforts for relief activities. Abdullah Al Rabia. Since its founding by the hands of King Abdulaziz, the architect of modern Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia has continuously provided assistance to foreign countries during natural disasters and wars. Since 1996, Saudi Arabia has spent more than $12.7 billion on relief efforts to alleviate humanitarian suffering. 169 countries have benefited from this.
Saudi planes carrying relief goods landed at Al-Arish Airport in Egypt within seven hours of receiving the order of King Salman, the Servant of the Holy Shrines, and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to deliver aid to the Palestinians in Gaza, and the convoy carrying relief goods arrived at the Rafah crossing gate on the Egypt-Gaza border. So far, the King Salman Relief Center has sent 38 airloads of relief goods to Gaza. Six shiploads of relief goods were also sent. A total of 5,795 tons of relief goods were sent to Gaza by ship and plane. Also 20 ambulances were dispatched. So far, more than 50 crore Riyals have been collected through the public donation drive for the Palestinians. More than 17 lakh people participated in the campaign and came forward to donate.
The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center was established on May 13, 2015 at the behest of King Salman. It is the only Saudi agency responsible for delivering relief goods and aid abroad. The center works on the principles of transparency, impartiality and non-discrimination.
Since its inception, King Salman Relief Center has implemented 2,670 relief and charity projects in 95 countries around the world in collaboration with 175 regional and international partners, spending more than 600 crore Riyals. The King Salman Relief Center implements a mine clearance project, a project to supply prosthetic limbs to amputees, and a rehabilitation project for children recruited to the war front. So far, 582 free surgery projects have been implemented in 38 countries through the King Salman Relief Center. A total of over one and a half lakh operations have been conducted under these schemes. As part of the Saudi plan to perform separation surgery on Siamese twins, Dr. So far, 133 cases of Siamese twins from 24 countries have been studied and 59 separation surgeries have been performed. Abdullah Al-Rabi’a said.