With 200 projects.. Saudi Arabia launches the Athar Volunteer Program to support Sudan

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Saudi Arabia launched the Saudi Voluntary Program (Athar) to support the Republic of Sudan, to alleviate human suffering, and increase training and economic empowerment in the health sector, and other fields.

The project includes (200) volunteer projects, more than (58,000) surgical operations, and approximately (600,000) beneficiaries benefit from the project.

For his part, the General Supervisor of the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center, Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabiah, confirmed that Sudan, Yemen and Gaza were not absent from the Kingdom, but rather were at the forefront of countries receiving support in all fields, including ongoing humanitarian work.

In a related context, he pointed out that the Kingdom, since its unification at the hands of King Abdulaziz, has continued to extend a helping hand and assistance to brotherly and friendly countries, until the Kingdom’s aid reached (175) countries, with a value exceeding (145.7) billion US dollars during the past three decades.

In the same context, Al-Rabiah recalled the details of the initiative of King Salman and the Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister, Prince Mohammed bin Salman, to establish the King Salman Center for Relief and Humanitarian Aid in 2015 AD. To unify Saudi humanitarian work, “so that the King Salman Relief Center becomes an international example of institutional work that does not differentiate between color, gender, race, and religion, as the Center today has reached (113) countries by presenting (4475) projects,” he said.

Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabiah explained that the directive came for the Center to embrace external humanitarian volunteerism; So that the Saudis embody “a living model of giving and great humanitarian initiative, bringing the number of volunteers registered with the center to (85,000) volunteers, and implementing (1,471) volunteer campaigns in (61) countries, bringing the number of beneficiaries to nearly three million beneficiaries, explaining that this comes in fulfillment of the goals of the Kingdom’s Vision 2030.”