UN humanitarian officials on Tuesday stressed the importance of Kuwait’s generous aid and donations in easing the suffering of Syrian refugees in different countries.

In separate interviews with Kuwait news Agency on tuesday, the two officials noted that the support of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al Jaber Al-Sabah for the United Nation’s organizations and Jordan was of prominent effect on the living conditions for the Syrian refugees, mainly at Al-Zaatari camp northern Jordan.

The officials statement were made on the occasion of opening two schools at His Highness Amir Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmed Al Jaber Al-Sabah’s village, in Al Zaatari refugee camp.

They hoped that cooperation would continue between the UN High Commission and the UNICEF with Kuwait and the international Islamic Charitable Organization, which was in charge of opening the new schools with a capacity of over 2,400 students.

Kuwait’s efforts played a big role in providing refugees with proper education, in coordination with the Jordanian Ministry of Education, the High Commission, the UNICEF and the ICO, said UNHCR Zaatari camp manager Hovig Etyemezian.

Meanwhile, Etyemezian praised the efforts of the Jordanian government to facilitate the delivery of aid to refugees in the camp, create a safe work environment for the UN employees and safeguard the safety of all refugees.

On his part, UNICEF’s representative in Jordan Robert Jenkins, said that the continuous Kuwait contributions is creating a better life for the children of Syria refugees in the camp, adding that Kuwait has donated about 25.6 Million US Dollars for the UNICEF in Jordan.

The official noted that there are four other schools to be opened at the camp in cooperation with the US, the EU and Germany, to receive an estimated total of 25,000 children.

The camp’s schools do not have enough space to receive all children, as each class is filled with over 100 students, which in turn affects the performance of both students and teachers, said Jenkins. Thus, the UN is exerting great efforts to expand schools and develop educational services.

The two schools were inaugurated last saturday by President of the Kuwait based ICO. Amiri Diwan advisor and UN Secretary General’s humanitarian envoy Abdullah Al-Maatouq.

Kuwait plans to build other models villages for Syrian refugees in Jordan (with two villages already existing), each containing 1,000 makeshift houses in addition to public facilities including mosques, schools and medical centers.

There are currently over 1.3 million refugees living in Jordan, over 500,000 of them live in Al Zaatari camp.

As from 22 July 2015, No new cases of Ebola were reported in Liberia nor in recent hotspots in West Africa with half the 26 cases in this week’s update from the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) coming from the capitals of Guinea and Sierra Leone, bringing the number of people who have died of the disease to 11,269.
WHO also reported today that on 20 July, Italy was declared free of Ebola transmission after the completion of 42 days without a case since the country’s first and only case of the disease was confirmed EVD-negative and discharged from hospital.
In West Africa, where the outbreak hit hardest, “there are also indications of a continuation of the improvements in contact tracing and case investigation seen in recent weeks, with all but 2 cases arising among registered contacts of previous cases, including all 13 of the cases reported from the Guinean capital Conakry,” according to the WHO update.
WHO said no new cases were reported in Liberia, where Ebola resurfaced after it had been declared free of the disease in May, and said that as of 21 July, 56 contacts associated with the chain of transmission are under follow-up.
“If there are no further cases all contacts will have completed follow-up on 2 August,” WHO said.
The origin of the new cases in Liberia remains under investigation, it said, adding that “preliminary evidence from genomic sequencing suggests that the most likely origin of transmission is a re-emergence of the virus from a survivor within Liberia, rather than an importation from Guinea or Sierra Leone.”
Other recent hotspots of transmission such as Boke in Guinea and Kambia in Sierra Leone have now reported no cases for 18 and 9 days, respectively, the UN health agency said.
WHO noted that two new health worker infections were reported from Guinea and one from Sierra Leone, bringing to 879 the number of confirmed health worker infections reported from Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone since the start of the outbreak, with 510 reported deaths.

Poverty is living without the basic needs that many others in this world enjoy.  People who live in poverty worry about things like having enough food to feed their families and having safe secure shelter in which to live.  Poverty effects day to day life, children are unhealthy due to a lack of nutritional foods and medical care and their parents have little or no resources to improve their living conditions.

People living in poverty cannot afford better foods and their constant lack of nutrition leaves them unable to work more to provide the extra money needed for nutritional foods.  This is why people get stuck in the trap of poverty; they are unable to find a way out on their own.  The cycle continues, generation after generation.  Entire communities live in poverty always believing if they work hard enough they can break the cycle.

Royal Group Charity works to find solutions to the underlying causes of poverty by working with people and communities in a way that leads them to become stronger and more self-sufficient. Our programs focus on integrated solutions to things like hunger, poverty and disease.

17 October 2015

As part of UN Millennium Development goals, on the 17th of October we celebrate the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.

The International Day for the Eradication of Poverty has been observed every year since 1993, when the United Nations General Assembly, by resolution 47/196, designated this day to promote awareness of the need to eradicate poverty and destitution in all countries. Fighting poverty remains at the core of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the development of the post-2015 development agenda.

Help Royal Group Charity support the United Nations to raise awareness about the progress made and the challenges that remain for people living in poverty.

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The goal of ending poverty is elusive, and those in the aid business seem to oscillate between giddiness and despair, between the excitement of the latest miracle cure and accusations of failure or worse. As the critics never fail to point out, billions of dollars have been spent on aid but the poor are still with us.

Fighting poverty is to fight, with patience and deliberateness, the many problems that make the lives of poor people difficult: bad schools, dirty water, infectious diseases, the vagaries of weather and other natural disasters, poor sanitation, lack of skills, petty corruption, potholes, etc. The list goes on.

These problems are concrete but hardly glamorous, possible to solve, but often without a known solution. No one person can solve all of them and, in any case, getting them all fixed will not end poverty tomorrow. But if we could give up the lofty goals and empty promises, and focus all our energies on the concrete steps we are able to take here and now to improve the lives of the poor worldwide, we would at the very least bring some real comfort to the lives of many millions.

Thank you so much for your commitment of support. Together we can build healthy communities in Africa and around the world.

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November 8, 2013 is the day that Filipinos and the world will never forget – the day that the strongest typhoon to make landfall hit the Philippines.
Leaving behind unimaginable devastation, Typhoon Haiyan brought damage and loss, claiming almost 7,000 lives and leaving 14.0 million people affected, more than 5.8 million of them children. The devastation made it difficult to get to most communities. Assessing need and delivering aid were many challenges, but Royal Group Charity was there on the ground straightaway providing urgently needed relief and support.

As one community declared, ‘Together, we are stronger than Haiyan,’ be encouraged that we are working together with communities to experience life in all its fullness, empowering typhoon-affected communities to be more resilient and prepared for disasters yet to come.

Royal Group Charity Foundation is an international humanitarian organization dedicated to tackling poverty and suffering in the world’s poorest countries.

Royal Group Charity Foundation has been working to fight hunger, prevent malnutrition and improve the lives of children in Africa. Whether we are working with orphaned children or emergency relief for refugees, Royal Group Charity strives to meet the needs to vulnerable children and their families with lifesaving and life-changing programs.

We work in partnership with the very poorest people in these countries, directly enabling them to improve their lives, as well as using our knowledge and experience to influence decisions made at a local, national and international level that can significantly reduce extreme poverty.

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“In this new century, millions of people in the world’s poorest countries remain imprisoned, enslaved, and in chains. They are trapped in the prison of poverty. It is time to set them free. Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. And overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life. While poverty persists, there is no true freedom.”

Nelson Mandela