JEDDAH: People in Jazan province are preparing to celebrate Eid Al-Adha like any other year despite the thunder of shelling or screech of warplanes.
The main prayer ground in Uhud Al-Masaraha is ready to welcome worshippers. Small amusement parks with games for children have been set up close to the evacuee camp. The Saudi Arabian Scouts Society is getting ready to present a drama in the camp.
The local authorities have hired 11 buses to take the displaced families to various picnic locations during the holidays.
Evacuee families are receiving SR4,000 with SR200 for each dependent every two weeks as a stipend until they can return to their homes.
“Civil Defense teams erected 390 tents with all basic utilities and clinics and Red Crescent center in Uhud Al-Masaraha for 921 evacuees,” Brig. Hammoud Al-Hassani director of Civil Defense told Arab News on Tuesday.
Civil Defense has also put up 217 families with 1,880 members in rented apartments in various parts of the province, he added.
The Jazan Health Affairs Department has set up a health center in the area. It will be open 24 hours a day. The hospital is staffed by nine male and female doctors, 12 nurses and 16 technicians. An ambulance is also available at the center.
The camp also received cash and kind aid from various institutions. Princess Al-Anoud Bint Abdul Aziz Bin Musaed bin Jalawi Charity Foundation supplied 7,000 food baskets. The foundation will also undertake a fencing project for the camp.
The Directorate of Water in the province supplies large numbers of cold water bottles in the camp besides supplying drinking water in 30 tankers daily.
