SABIC Employees’ Fund extends support to highway travelers

The SABIC Employees Charity Fund (BERR) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Sheikh Saad Al-Musa & Sheikh Abdulaziz Al-Musa Endowment to initiate a study on the Traveler’s Prayer project, which involves building mosques and washrooms on highways to serve motorists and worshippers.
BERR, which is the Arabic acronym for the fund, is an initiative of the Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) out of its responsibility toward society and its strategy of working with philanthropic partners to improve social conditions in the community.
The MoU was signed by Khalid Al-Nimer, chairman of the fund’s board of trustees and Abdulilah Al-Musa, member, board of supervisors, Sheikh Saad Al-Musa & Sheikh Abdulaziz Al-Musa Endowment, in Riyadh on Dec. 30.
As per the MoU, the fund will have access to the studies conducted by the endowment on the project and also have the right to any subsequent improvements made to the project design.
The idea behind the project stems from the need to develop facilities for highway users, particularly for ablution and prayers at gas stations, and to provide hygienic washrooms. The initiators of the project developed suitable designs for these highway facilities to alleviate the problems currently faced on these counts by travelers.
SABIC Vice Chairman and CEO Mohamed Al-Mady said the project reflects the good deeds done by the fund in the service of the Almighty. He said the fund had been rendering yeoman service for the betterment of society since its establishment in 2002.
Al-Mady said that SABIC employees were closely associated with BERR, with more than 4,000 staff members registered with it.
The SABIC employees registered with the fund have been engaged in various volunteering activities, including adoption of 457 needy families and supporting their 2,500 members, and in building mosques in different regions of the Kingdom.