SAN SALVADOR: The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) team has delivered 100 tons of dates to the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) in the Republic of El Salvador, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported.
According to the SPA, at the Foreign Affairs Ministry in San Salvador, the delivery event was attended by the representative of the Saudi embassy in the United Mexican States and non-resident in El Salvador Abdullah Al-Saqr, Salvadoran Minister of Education Jose Mauricio Pineda, WFP representative, country director in El Salvador Riaz Lodhi, Salvadoran Ministry of Foreign Affairs Office of International Relations Director Willian Alexander Deleon Flores, and a team from KSrelief, the SPA added. Al-Saqr and Lodhi inked the memorandum of delivery of the shipment, according to the SPA.
Al-Saqr also expressed thanks and appreciation to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and Crown Prince and Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, for this generous gesture, which embodies the KSA’s humanity and its leading role in alleviating the suffering of friendly and brotherly nations. He also praised KSrelief for its follow-up and direct supervision in executing such humanitarian programs as well as projects that help those in need wherever they may be.
According to the SPA, for his part, the Salvadoran education minister also expressed his sincere thanks to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), represented by KSrelief, for this gift, which will benefit more than 250,000 students through the school feeding program in around 1,038 schools. This gift falls within the programs provided by the government of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques to several brotherly and friendly nations for distribution to the neediest families in different regions across the world, the SPA further said.
