JEDDAH, 10 March — The International Islamic Relief Organization, an affiliate of the Muslim World League, has provided relief supplies and educational and health services worth almost SR20 million to Afghan refugees, according to a press statement.
Interior Minister Prince Naif commended IIRO’s efforts in the service of Afghan refugees. “The emergency relief campaigns carried out by the organization helped a great deal in saving Afghan people from hunger and poverty,” the prince said in a letter to Dr. Abdullah Al-Turki, secretary-general of the MWL.
The minister commended IIRO’s services after receiving a report from Turki on its relief activities in Afghanistan in November and December last year.
Meanwhile, more than 4,000 Afghan families have benefited from the sacrificial meat utilization program of the World Assembly of Muslim Youth.
Muhammad Mustafa, director of WAMY’s office in Pakistan, said his organization had distributed the meat of 119 cows and 143 sheep among Afghan refugees and schools for orphans.
WAMY has spent more than SR40 million on relief for Afghans since the start of US airstrikes on the country. It gives shelter to some 10,000 Afghan families. It also erected refugee camps, established mosques and schools, supplied food and clothing and provided medical services.
