KARACHI: With a team of over 80 volunteers, the Together We Can charity in Karachi is pulling off the impressive feat of delivering free sahoor meals to at least 20,000 people daily in this southern Pakistani city, with generous donations and support from family and friends, the founder of the organization said. The TWC, a … Read more
RIYADH: Ramadan is a time for fasting, prayer and reflection, and all over the world Muslims welcome it with enthusiasm and joy. In Saudi Arabia, locals welcome Ramadan by decorating their homes and work spaces with festive ornaments that over time have achieved iconic status. Shahad Al-Ghamdi has a smart habit of visiting wholesale stores … Read more
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s aid agency KSrelief has distributed 6,000 cartons of dates to families in need in Shabwa governorate, Yemen, benefiting 36,000 individuals. This is a part of the date-distribution project for Yemen this year. KSrelief also provided 790 food parcels to vulnerable and displaced families in Sudan’s White Nile State, benefiting 4,910 individuals.
LONDON: The House of Saud took the first steps on the long road to nationhood in 1727, when Imam Mohammed bin Saud succeeded his cousin, Zaid bin Markhan, as ruler of the city state of Diriyah. It is this pivotal moment, recognized as the date when the First Saudi State came into being, that is … Read more
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s aid agency KSrelief has distributed 2,089 shopping vouchers to Syrians in the north of Aleppo who severely affected by last year’s earthquake. Residents in the town of Jindires in Afrin city have been in desperate need of aid for year after the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that devastated parts of southern Turkiye and … Read more
RIYADH: Workers for Saudi aid agency KSrelief on Sunday distributed 1,646 food parcels to displaced families in the Sudanese state of Kassala. More than 9,450 people are estimated to have benefitted from the handouts, the Saudi Press Agency reported. The initiative was part of the center’s food security support project in Sudan alongside other humanitarian … Read more
RIYADH: Bookworms in a Saudi province have set up more than 800 home libraries to promote reading. The success story follows Najran Literary and Cultural Club’s launch earlier this year of its Furnishing Home Libraries initiative which came in the wake of a Reading is Life project members started four years ago. Club president, Saeed … Read more