KUWAIT CITY — The oil-rich Persian Gulf state of Kuwait said Sunday it will donate $500 million in aid to U.S. relief efforts after Hurricane Katrina.
The offer is the largest known put forward since the hurricane ravaged Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama and follows a $100 million aid donation from the emir of a Mideast neighbor, Qatar.
Kuwait's energy minister said his country would provide "oil products that the disaster-stricken states need in addition to other humanitarian aid."
"It's our duty as Kuwaitis to stand by our friends to lighten the humanitarian misery and as a payback for the many situations during which Washington helped us through the significant relations between the two friendly countries," Sheik Ahmed Fahd Al Ahmed Al Sabah said in a statement carried by Kuwait's official news agency, KUNA. [Read more - WWLTV]
Again, help the Red Cross help others. Give generously. Thanks!
"Children across Niger and North Mali are starving as the world ignores appeals for help." quote from the Islamic relief website...
now how much did you Kuwaitis give to Niger and Mali
Posted by: Khalid Masood | September 11, 2005 at 05:36 PM