Kuwait's Al-Rahma International Charity has offered upwards of eight million dollars in humanitarian aid to displaced Syrian refugees in Lebanon, declared the charity's representative in Lebanon Ashraf Bakri, in a statement to KUNA on Friday.
The aid given varied from providing the refugees with medical care and schooling for their children to helping them pay rent and granting them pocket money to defray the cost of clothes and food they may buy, said Bakri.
More specifically, he said that the charity has built a hospital and a medical center at the cost of USD 1.7 million for the benefit of the refugees in addition to assisting in the construction of schools and in granting donations to schools to the tune of USD 5.2 million. The charity furthermore offers financial aid to 50,000 students belonging to Syrian refugee families, said Bakri.
The charity moreover has incurred the cost of housing more than 500 refugee families to the tune of USD 1.2 million, he said as he extoled the work of Kuwaiti charities and relief aid organizations in alleviating the harsh conditions being experienced by so many displaced Syrians currently languishing in refugee camps in Lebanon, Turkey, and Jordan.
The latest statistics show that the number of displaced Syrian refugees in Lebanon has approached one million, most of whom being concentrated in northern Lebanon, in such places as Tripoli, Menia, and Dhania, and also in the Beka'a valley region