The Saudi joint committee for the relief of Kosovo and Chechnya has over the last week received new donations worth SR47600 for Chechen refugees, it was reported in Riyadh.
The director of donations and exhibitions department at the committee Khaled Alfadhel told the official Saudi News Agency (SPA) that the committee is undertaking a campaign to collect donations for the Muslim refugees in the war-stricken regions.
Saudis have also donated millions of riyals for Afghan refuges and others in different parts of the Muslim world. Dates, which abundant in the desert kingdom, constitute a major part of Saudi official donations to other countries; the last dispatch was for Yemen two days ago. (Albawaba.com)
