Matchless gesture: Seats reserved for orphans, disabled

Youth Welfare President Prince Nawaf bin Faisal has ordered reservation, at his expense, of 100 seats for orphans and those with special needs in all matches. These are apart from the seats already allocated for them in tournaments.
The prince stressed the special attention to be paid to the orphans and disabled.
“Implementation of rules and regulations at sport tournaments does not mean ill-treatment and unfulfilled desires of other people,” the prince said in a statement yesterday.
It was reported recently that 25 orphans of a leading Riyadh-based charity society were denied permission to meet the players of Al-Nasr and Al-Ahli teams, which were playing the quarter-finals on that day, at the King Fahd International Stadium in Riyadh.
The children were sent to the stadium as planned. They were carrying banners of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah to commemorate his accession to the throne. They also had roses to present to the presidents of the two clubs, the report said.
“It is totally unacceptable; we do not approve of it,” the prince said decrying the incident. He allocated an Olympic Sports Day for the charity societies including orphan societies.
The prince will shortly receive the orphans who were denied access to the tournament.