Amman, 11 March 2022, SPA-- The Advisor at the Saudi Royal Court and Supervisor General of the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSRelief), Dr. Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Rabeeah signed yesterday two joint agreements to provide food security and housing support for Syrian and Palestinian refugees and the host community in Jordan. The signing ceremony was attended by KSA’s Ambassador to Jordan Nayef bin Bandar Al-Sudairy and several KSRelief officials, at the headquarters of the Saudi embassy in Amman. Dr. Al Rabeeah signed the first agreement with the National Alliance to Combat Hunger and Malnutrition (Najma), worth $2 million, aimed at enhancing food security for needy families in Jordan, where the center will provide a grant to the National Alliance to meet the food needs of Syrian and Palestinian refugees outside the refugee camps and the Jordanian host community for 6 months in all Jordanian governorates, by distributing magnetic cards every two months to the beneficiaries through contracting with the military consumer establishment, where they will be exclusive to food items with the number of beneficiaries is expected to reach 28,865 individuals, representing 5,773 families. Dr. Al Rabeeah signed the second agreement with the Jordanian Hashemite Charitable Organization to provide housing support, pay water and electricity bills, and cover the house rent of Syrian families with special needs in Irbid Governorate, Jordan, for 3 years, benefiting 22 Syrian refugee families of 109 individuals. He stressed that KSRelief is the humanitarian arm of the Kingdom and the only body authorized to deliver Saudi aid abroad and help the afflicted peoples, and an outlet for the Kingdom's goals in its march towards humanity without borders, embodying its pioneering role and highlighting its identity in humanitarian and relief efforts. Dr. Al Rabeeah explained that the inception of the center, which was launched in 2015, came at the will of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud to be a leading center for relief and humanitarian work and convey the values of the Kingdom to the world and achieve its moral commitment and mission to support people and provide them with a decent life. He pointed out the center has provided 1,919 diverse humanitarian projects in 79 countries around the world, with a value of $5,646, 961,000, through which the center was able to draw a human image to be emulated in terms of neutrality, transparency, and non-discrimination with no regard to color, gender, or borders, in line with its noble mission to assist to all the needy and affected around the world without any discrimination, and without linking aid to any political or religious agenda, adding that KSRelief implements its projects with an accurate monitoring mechanism and advanced and fast transportation methods, through cooperation with 144 partners from the various United Nations organizations and international and local non-profit organizations in the beneficiary countries with high reliability. He elaborated that the projects and programs offered by the center were taken into consideration to be diverse according to the beneficiaries and the circumstances in which they live or were exposed to, indicating that the aid covers all sectors of relief and humanitarian work such as shelter, early recovery, protection, education, water and environmental sanitation, nutrition, health, among others. He underlined that Yemen tops the list of countries benefiting from the center's assistance, with the number of projects implemented in Yemen amounting to 684 projects worth more than $4 billion, noting that the center pays special attention to women and children, believing that their support and empowerment would help them overcome the challenges they face as they are the backbone of the family. Dr. Al Rabeeah highlighted the center’s qualitative projects, such as the project to rehabilitate recruited and affected children in Yemen, which directly benefited 530 children and indirectly benefited 60,560 children’s parents, in addition to the Saudi Project for Landmine Clearance (Masam) project which aims to clear Yemeni lands of mines planted by the Houthi militia, where 323,875 mines have been removed since the start of the project. He also cited the prosthetic limbs project, which is concerned with the installation of prosthetic limbs for those whose limbs have been amputated as a result of mines planted by the terrorist Houthi militia. Dr. Al Rabeeah also praised the Saudi Siamese Twins Separation Program, which enjoys the patronage the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and HRH the Crown Prince, noting that since its launch in 1990, the program has carried out (118) surgeries for conjoined twins from 22 countries around the world, including Jordan, stressing that the Kingdom has become a leading country in twin separation operations, which reflects the outstanding progress in the health sector in the Kingdom. --SPA 17:57 LOCAL TIME 14:57 GMT 0011 www.spa.gov.sa/w1704070