Documenting the opening of the wells of the Al-Feer campaign
The delegation of the Youth of Goodness inaugurated the Aoun Well No. 1000 of the thousand bear campaign launched by the Association last Ramadan and interacted with the Kuwaiti people and supporters of the Association from all over the world, in which more than 82,000 donors participated, and achieved great success that caused the raising of the required goal of one thousand wells To 1,500 wells.
The campaign aimed to dig wells in areas that suffer from severe drought and the spread of diseases caused by water shortages and drinking contaminated water such as cholera, hepatitis, typhoid, malaria and other diseases and causing the death of 25% of those who drink it, as well as because children are busy fetching water daily for more than distances 6 km a day, an average of 49% of children fail to attend these facts. These facts are the main cause of widespread ignorance, poverty and disease across the continent.
Dr. stated. Abdullah Abdul-Rahman Al-Sumait, Director General of Direct Aid Society stated that the “Alif_Beer Campaign” is a humanitarian campaign launched by the association and adopted by a group of Kuwaiti youth to start a field visit to them in Niger to see the conditions of villages affected by the lack of drinking water and document the opening of well projects implemented recently by Direct Aid, interact Kuwaiti society and many followers in the countries of the world with the live transfer of events from the field that confirmed the transparency of work and the success of the association in fulfilling its pledges to shareholders in projects and was a major reason for the campaign to obtain the confidence of donors all over the world.
Dr. explained. Abdullah Al-Sumait that the campaign was preceded by publishing a list of the number of wells, their specifications and the number of beneficiaries on them to all media outlets, explaining the steps of the campaign and the mechanism of donating and contributing to achieving the principle of transparency that the association is keen to adhere to.
The Director General also touched on the role of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to support and follow up the implementation of projects in Africa, which is considered to support the credibility of charitable work in general and direct aid in particular.
Stressing that the launching of charitable campaigns from the country of Kuwait, the country of charity, is a cause of pride and pride, and one of the reasons for consolidating Kuwait’s pioneering humanitarian role among the countries of the world, which reached the good hands of hundreds of millions of people in need around the world.