The Office of the Prime Minister has received a donation of 12,700 food boxes worth 500,000$ from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and King Salman Humanitarian Aid
The Ambassador of the Royal Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to Uganda Mohammed Bin Khalil Faroudah, said that the food boxes equivalent to 342 tonnes consist of relief food including maize flour,rice,and beans which will be distributed to vulnerable Congolese refugees in Nakivale.
While receiving the assortment, the Minister of State for Relief, Disaster Preparedness and Refugees Dr. Lillian Aber expressed gratitude to the move noting that Uganda remains committed to supporting refugees and look forward to further collaborations to enhance humanitarian efforts.
“The offer you are bringing is not something small, this will put a smile on the faces of our refugees, we are ranked the fifth refugee hosting country in the whole world but we sometimes get challenged with the limited funding that is channeled towards Uganda”,Aber said.
She added,”this is a call that if Saudi Arabia can continue to support our work we shall as well continue doing our part “.
The Minister further called upon the global community to prioritize Uganda while giving humanitarian support so that it gets in a position where it is able to to provide most of the refugee needs.
“We need more funding if we are to give the right support that we are supposed to give and that includes the food ratio, inf we have limited support then we can’t give the adequate food ration we are meant to have refugees when they arrive”, Aber explained
Uganda is home to over 1.7 million refugees, including 531,000 from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
