SAUDI ARABIA

Dr. Al-Rabiah: King to attend 1st Riyadh International Humanitarian Forum

February 15, 2018

RIYADH – Dr. Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz Al-Rabiah, adviser at the Royal Court and Supervisor General of the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSRelief), announced here Thursday that Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman will attend the "First Riyadh International Humanitarian Forum" on Feb. 26-27, Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported.
During a press conference held at InterContinental Hotel here, Dr. Al-Rabiah affirmed that the Kingdom, throughout its history, plays a pioneering role in the humanitarian and relief fields while serving the international community around the world, adding, that the Kingdom realizes the importance of this role in alleviating the humanitarian suffering and guaranteeing a decent life for all needy people.
"Based on the Saudi leadership’s keenness to help people in need, the Kingdom has established the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSRelief) to provide relief and humanitarian assistance and supervise the delivery of assistance to the affected people abroad," Dr. Al-Rabiah said.
"Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman had issued directives to establish the KSRelief on May 13, 2015, in order to provide various humanitarian and relief programs, in accordance with the humanitarian principles. The KSRelief implemented 328 programs in 38 states, most of them in Yemen, Syria, Iraq and Somalia," the KSRelief Supervisor General added.
He said that the center works with 119 humanitarian partners, including the United Nations organizations and a number of non-governmental local and international organizations, disclosing that the center's humanitarian sectors included food security, health, women and child projects, nutrition, water, environmental sanitation and education in addition to the child soldiers rehabilitation project and programs for children and women.
Dr. Al-Rabiah added that the KSRelief projects included a number of shelter programs, including the village in Djibouti with 300 housing units for the Yemeni refugees in Djibouti.
"The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia hosted 561,000 Yemenis, 262,000 Syrians and 249,000 Rohingya people of Myanmar,” Dr. Al-Rabiah said, while disclosing that the forum, first of its kind, represents a platform for changing values and finding practical solutions in the humanitarian fields in addition to main issues concerning humanitarian planning and delivery of aid.
He stressed that the forum's sessions and discussions will focus on humanitarian assistance, funding, innovation, restructuring in the humanitarian sector and localization of aid.
The forum will see the participation of more than 45 international and regional organizations. Dr. Al-Rabiah announced that the first electronic scientific journal titled "International Humanitarian Journal" will be launched by the KSRelief during the humanitarian forum. – SPA

February 15, 2018
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