The United States has agreed to dispatch an estimated 12,000 new hygiene kits to Iran to replace the expired kits it sent for victims of a devastating June earthquake, a UNICEF official in Tehran said Monday.
"The USAID (United States Agency for International Development), a governmental agency, has agreed to send the new kits and a plane carrying the aid will arrive soon," said the official from the United Nations Children’s Fund, according to AFP.
The relief plane delivered hygiene kits, blankets, water bladders, mobile water purification systems for the victims of the June 22 earthquake, which killed some 300 people and wounded over 1,300 in Iran's northwestern Qazvin province.
UNICEF served as the go-between for passing on the US donations to Iran's Red Crescent Society, which distributed the aid in the disaster zone. (Albawaba.com)
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