KUWAIT CITY, Feb 6: The Assistant Undersec-retary for Social Develop-ment in Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor Munira Al-Fadhli stated that Law Number 112/2011 on public aid empowers His Highness the Amir to specify beneficiaries, noting the law lists 16 groups that can benefit from social aid, reports Al-Watan Arabic daily.

Al-Fadhli disclosed this at the inauguration ceremony of 33 Beauty Q in Salam Area, which is the first nursery in Middle East to support small-scale women projects. She revealed the new decree includes three new categories that can collect aid. She said the first category is women that previously collected aid through ‘exemption’, based on Amiri decree.

He stressed these women will now obtain support legitimately after issuance of the new decree, and the same guidelines that govern Kuwaiti families will be applicable to them from now on.

She also said the second category is Kuwaiti women who are above 55 years and married but without stable income, indicating the level of support the political leadership gives to Kuwaiti families.
She noted the sector minister Thikra Al-Rashidi played a vital role in this regard by reducing the mandatory age from 60 to 55.

Talking about the third category, she cited students who are studying abroad on personal expenses and those on the Ministry of Higher Education scholarship. She explained that the regulation stipulates the student should not be more than 28 years old, and they must be registered with the Ministry of Higher Education and studying on personal expenses, while the concerned universities should be recognized.
Meanwhile, Department of Charitable Societies and Foundations at Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor has received applications from ten registered charitable societies in the country that are interested in collecting donations for the Syrian people, reports Al-Seyassah daily quoting an informed source.
He said the department has already laid down the criteria for the charity societies to receive the ministry’s approval, indicating that such societies must present fiscal reports on the donations collected during the last Ramadan season as well as on donations collected for Syrian people during the campaign organized last summer.

He stressed that only the Social Reform Society has received approval for collection of donations, indicating that other qualified societies include Islamic Heritage Revival Society, Direct Aid Society, Al-Thaqalaen Social Charity, Sheikh Abdullah Al-Nouri Charitable Society, Patients Aid Fund, Social Solidarity Society, Kuwait Islamic Science Society, Al-Najjat Charitable Society and Bashayer Al-Khayr Society.