King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) launched a project to distribute food baskets during the holy month of Ramadan in Sudan at an estimated cost of more than 549,000 US dollars.
Saudi Ambassador in Sudan Ali bin Hassan Jafar and the representative of the Director General of Sudanese Moral Guidance, Major General Fathi Al-Mahal, attended the inauguration ceremony.
The project aims to distribute 13,725 food baskets during the coming month of Ramadan to meet the needs of families in the areas of displacement and poverty in five states, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported.
According to the Center's implementation of such humanitarian initiatives, 68,625 people will benefit from the project.
The distribution comes in line with the directives of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and the Crown Prince to provide a package of humanitarian aid to stand with the Sudanese people.
The Saudi aid Center was also engaged in several humanitarian and relief works in a number of countries, targeting the needy and the poor in those areas.
According to SPA it has given away an amount of 11200 kilos worth of the Kingdom's gift of dates to the Republic of Senegal.
