Saudi campaign distributes food, blankets to Syrians in Mafraq

MAFRAQ  — The Saudi national campaign for aiding Syrian refugees in Jordan dispatched 88 truck laden with food, winter clothes, blankets, tents and fire extinguishers to Jordan earlier this week.

The assistance, distribution of which began on Tuesday, is part of Saudi Arabia’s aid to Syrian refugees residing in Mafraq, according to director of the campaign’s office in Jordan, Saad Sawid.

He noted that a total of 3,654 trailers have been provided by the campaign to refugees since the opening of the Zaatari Refugee Camp.

Sawid added that a 10,000-square-metre hospital is being established at the camp at a cost of 2.5 million Saudi riyals (around JD471,950) and will be ready to receive patients within a month.