Six hundred Boy Scouts are distributing 1,500 Iftar meals daily around the Grand Mosque in the holy city of Makkah. “They go around the districts in search of people to offer something to break their fast with,” said Ibrahim Najjar, head of the Boy Scouts department at the General Directorate of Education (GDE) in Makkah, organizers of the project, called ‘A Fasting Person's Iftar.' The Islamic Relief Organization (IRO) also distributes some 800 baskets of food daily to the needy under its Al-Khair Projects launched earlier this week, said Abdullah Al-Falih, IRO's Social care director. “We also gave 10,000 people new clothes for Eid, distributed 6,500 schoolbags, and made arrangements to provide monetary assistance after Eid to needy students,”Al-Falish said. GDE, in collaboration with IRO, plans to provide school students with reading material in the coming academic year. Hamid Rabou'ei, supervisor for the students' aid project said that IRO's financial support for the project amounts to SR10 million. Our Boy Scouts help organize the requests of these needy students,” Rabou'e said. “We receive students who are in need of assistance at the Scouting Training Center at Aziziyah District from 9 P.M. to 1 A.M.” on working days, he added. __
