The Kingdom topped donor countries in providing official development assistance (humanitarian and developmental) to low- and middle-income countries with an amount of $7.12 billion. The directives of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and the Crown Prince contributed to this achievement, which placed the Kingdom at the forefront of international humanitarian action with all due merit. Saudi Arabia has remained, throughout its history, a generous country extending its hand of goodness to help the distressed and the needy wherever they are, and it continues on the same noble approach that embodies the established values of the wise leadership of the Kingdom and its generous people.
As the white Saudi hands covered all parts of the globe; The volume of Saudi aid amounted to 95 billion US dollars, from which 160 countries around the world benefited. Since 1950, it has provided international humanitarian aid to the victims of the Punjab floods, and in 1974 the Kingdom established the Saudi Fund for Development with the aim of stimulating economic growth in developing countries, and within 4 years it reached 55 countries, until 1999, in which the Kingdom adopted official and popular donations to the victims of the Kosovo war, and in In 2004, the Kingdom made donations to the victims of the Pacific tsunami.
The Kingdom also made donations to the victims of Cyclone Sidr in Bangladesh in 2007, and in 2008 it made donations to the victims of the China earthquake, and pumped 500 million US dollars to the World Food Program, which is the largest donation in the history of the program, and in 2014 it made donations to help displaced Iraqis worth 500 million dollars. .
The number of King Salman Humanitarian and Relief Center projects amounted to 2,120 projects in 86 countries in cooperation with 175 international, regional and local partners, with a value that exceeded 6 billion US dollars, of which Yemen had the largest share. The relief and humanitarian work also included Syrian, Yemeni and Rohingya refugees in their various places of residence; In addition to the aid provided to alleviate the suffering of the needy during crises in Sudan, Indonesia, Pakistan, South Africa and Japan, the Kingdom provided medical aid to more than 33 countries during the Corona pandemic.
There are some initiatives implemented by the center, such as relief and volunteer platforms, international documentation and registration, such as the Saudi aid platform, the aid platform provided to refugees (visitors) in the Kingdom, and the electronic donation platform (Sahim). Including 22 general programs and 149 medical programs in 58 countries across 4 continents in the world.
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