King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSRelief) is an international center specialized in relief work and humanitarian assistance to those in need and in distress all around the world. It was established in 2015, under the guidance of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. It is headquartered in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Monitoring humanitarian needs around the world
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center monitors humanitarian needs around the world via United Nations organizations, international and local non-profit organizations, and organizations of countries where relief and assistance are required. KSRelief's assistance covers relief security, camp management, sheltering, early recovery, protection, education, water, environmental sanitation, nutrition, health, humanitarian operations support, logistics and emergency communications.
Working document of KSRelief
KSRelief adopts a Code of Conduct and Business Ethics document. Its first edition was issued in 2017 and is still applicable to all its representatives and employees inside and outside the Kingdom. One of its most important rules is to provide aid without distinction or discrimination, alleviate suffering whenever and wherever it may arise, respect religions, cultures and customs, and refrain from leveraging the aid to support a certain situation. The document defines work prohibitions and actions taken if they occur, such as theft, embezzlement, disclosure of confidential information and documents, etc. It also includes the center's Code of Conduct for Humanitarian and Relief Work.
Partnerships of KSRelief
KSRelief partners with sixteen international and UN humanitarian organizations, which share all or some of its tasks globally, including the United States Agency for International Development, the British Department for International Development, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).
The work of KSRelief
Since the establishment of KSRelief until 2022, the center has provided relief assistance to more than ninety-two countries around the world, including Yemen, Palestine and Syria in Asia; Somalia, Sudan and Nigeria in Africa; Honduras and Nicaragua in North America; and Albania and Poland in Europe. Yemen tops the list of countries that mostly benefit from the center's projects with 814 projects, followed by Syria with 290 projects. The total number of relief projects launched by the center amounts to 2,402 completed and in force projects, and the largest number is designated for the food sector.
Work programs of KSRelief
The center is responsible for four qualitative humanitarian programs, the first is the Child Soldiers Rehabilitation Program, which was launched in September 2017 from Marib Governorate in Yemen. It mainly aims to rehabilitate child soldiers who were psychologically affected by the armed conflict in Yemen. The program works to integrate them into society, enroll them in school, and provide awareness courses for their parents. Until 2022, 61,090 children and parents benefited from this program.
The second program is the Saudi Project for Demining in Yemen (Masam), which aims to remove mines in Yemeni areas, killing and injuring children, women and the elderly. Since the start of the project in June 2018 until 2022, a total of 358,863 mines were extracted. The third program is the Artificial Limbs Program, which is a continuation of Masam, as it finances free artificial limbs centers for mine victims. The scope of this program not only reaches Yemen, but also Syria.
The fourth program is the assistance program provided to visitors in the Kingdom. It specializes in helping refugees from Yemen, Syria and Burma within the Kingdom by granting them free treatment and education and providing them with job opportunities. The total amount of aid inside the Kingdom until 2022 amounted to about USD18.5 billion.
Aid provided by KSRelief
Some of the forms of aid provided by KSRelief include distributing basic needs for orphans, establishing emergency centers, operating mobile clinics to combat epidemic diseases, pumping water to tanks within water supply projects, distributing food baskets and tented shelters for those affected by natural accidents, organizing training and awareness projects and courses, providing medical assistance and distributing bread loaves to needy families, as well as dates to needy areas, and offering ready-made housing units (caravans) for refugees in camps.
The center offers organizational and documentary contributions to charitable and humanitarian work in the Kingdom, including the launch of the Saudi Aid Platform in 2018, which statistically documents the volume and type of assistance provided by the Kingdom to the people and countries of the world through its donors. KSRelief periodically documents this assistance internationally through the concerned organizations in the name of the Kingdom.
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