Kuwait will launch a television fundraiser on Tuesday, October 30 to help the Afghan people as US-led strikes on Afghanistan entered their fourth week, the KUNA news agency reported.
KUNA said Kuwait Television will kick off the six-hour campaign at 1430 GMT in collaboration with the Kuwait Red Crescent Society. A second televised campaign will be held on Thursday.
Barjes Al-Barjes, head of Kuwait's Red Crescent, told KUNA donations will only be accepted in cash and that the National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) and the Burgan Bank would be receiving the donations.
The Kuwaiti government recently announced that the campaign would help provide the Afghan people with food and other aid material. Information Minister Sheikh Ahmad Al-Sabah, who is organizing the campaign, has said it is aimed at allowing Kuwaiti citizens to participate at the popular level.
"Afghan people are our Muslim brothers and the Kuwaiti government has been supporting Afghan people and refugees even at the United Nations level," Sheikh Ahmad said.
Kuwait has repeatedly expressed solidarity with the United States in the wake of the terror attacks on New York and Washington, stressing the emirate's "rejection of terrorism in all its forms and whatever its sources." A US-led international military coalition forced Iraqi invasion troops out of Kuwait in 1991. — (AFP, Kuwait City)
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