King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSRelief) has provided 811,996 U.S. dollars to support Tajik orphaned children.
During a year, 600 orphans from various regions of Tajikistan will receive monthly US$100.00 each.
An appropriate agreement on this subject was signed in Dushanbe on March 30. The document was inked Tajikistan’s Red Crescent Society Secretary-General Bahodour Qurboniyon and KSRelief representative Yasser Alishahri.
Based on an agreement, Tajikistan’s Red Crescent Society will distribute the assistance to 500 orphaned children in the cities and districts of Kulob, Vose, Nurek, Khuruson, Bokhtar, Kushoniyon, Vakhsh, Levakand, Yovon, Abdurahmoni-Jomi, Jaloliddini-Balkhi, Jaihun, Dousti, Qubodiyon and Shahritous in the Khatlon province and 100 orphaned children in Khorog City and Shugnan District in the Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO).
Saudi Ambassador to Tajikistan Waleed bin Abdulrahman Al-Reshaidan, who also attended the signing ceremony for the agreement, noted that KSRelief) has extensive experience in providing assistance around the world and the fair distribution of this assistance.
“We are closely monitoring how and whom this assistance actually reaches,” Saudi Ambassador noted.
Orphans will receive funds from a special account opened with Amonatbonk (Tajikistan’s savings bank).
The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center has provided humanitarian assistance to Tajikistan since 2016.
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSRelief) was established by King Salman bin Abdulaziz in 2015. The Center was established in the framework of the Saudi’s efforts to alleviate the suffering of those in need worldwide. KSRelief has concluded a number of agreements with the UNHCR that aim at supporting refugees from Syria, Yemen and Rohingya.
In Tajikistan, Saudi Arabia has provided humanitarian assistance to vulnerable families through KSRelief in a total amount of 12 million US dollars.
