Saudi Arabia’s KSrelief Distributes Much Needed Humanitarian Aid to Flood Ravaged Sudan

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Faizel Patel – 06/10/2020

The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) has continued its efforts in providing humanitarian aid to affected people in flood ravaged in Sudan.

The Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reports the aid is part of the airlift directed by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman.

KSrelief distributed food baskets, dates, tents and blankets to more than fourteen thousand Sundanese.

The organisation also distributed medical aid to Bangladesh including masks, protective medical coats, surgical gowns and nitrile gloves to combat COVID-19, while KSrelief’s Masam mine clearing project in Yemen, demined 1,402 mines during the last week of September

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