Authority praises Kuwait's relief efforts

The executive director of Austria's relief authority, Dr. Ahmad Al-Matbouli, has praised distinguished role of charities of GCC states in general and Kuwait in particular. Dr. Al-Matbouli in an interview with KUNA, on the occasion of launching a campaign here for aiding Syrian children, noted the fact that generation after another in Kuwait has adopted humanitarian aid for needy nations. He also expressed hope to increase of cooperation between Kuwait and the Austrian authority for offering help for stricken families from various corners of the world, without discrimination. The Austrian authority sponsors orphans, launches relief and social help programs, supports relocated people and grants food to the needy during the fasting month of Ramadan. Meanwhile, Christine Nostlinger, a writer specialized in children literature, condemned the horrific acts of killing targeting the children of Syria. This campaign, she said, was aimed at educating the world and the Austrian people about plight of the Syrian children in the cities of Homs, Hamas and Aleppo. Nostlinger added in the remarks to the Kuwaiti news agency that she was deeply distressed at pictures of children being placed in horrific conditions in Syria and called for sparing the young from this cycle of mad violence.