JEDDAH: The Saudi Environment Society (SES) is working in concert with Jeddah Municipality and the Al-Iktifa Society on a campaign to clean-up districts affected by last month's flashfloods.

"The campaign started on Dec. 8 under the directive of President of Meteorology and Environment Protection Prince Turki bin Nasser, who is also chairman of SES," Majidah Abu Ras, a member of the SES board of directors, told Arab News on Saturday.

SES is a non-profitable organization that aims to achieve development through environment protection in collaboration with the public and private sectors.

"As part of its first phase, the cleaning campaign was launched in the neighborhoods of Gholail, Madain Al-Fahd, Kilo-14, Al-Sahifah and Al-Ammariah while the second stage will cover the districts of Al-Harazat, Al-Mahamid and the recently developed neighborhoods," she said.

"The Jeddah governor's office has provided the campaign with the required heavy machineries," Abu Ras said, adding that Al-Iktifa society, district heads and a large number of volunteers will also participate in the campaign.

"I would like to make special mention of the local residents of Gholail who volunteered to help in the cleaning operations. Fifty-three SES volunteers help in packing food baskets for daily supply to flood victims. The inspection of flood-hit neighborhoods was conducted by Al-Iktifa. A notable feature of all these activities is that they all work in total coordination," she said.

Besides environmental activities, SES also aims to promote a sense of social responsibility in the country with stress to offer training to develop youths in poor neighborhoods.

Al-Iktifa is a charitable organization of women that undertakes voluntary field surveys about Saudi families. It has already prepared a database on 37,000 families.

Jawharah Al-Anqari, chairperson of Al-Iktifa, said her organization is cooperating with SES and the municipality to help victims of the flood. "Al-Iktifa, which carried out a study of the affected neighborhoods, supplied details and maps of the affected areas selected for the campaign," she said.

For further details visit on the campaign www.jeddahcampaign.org.