Red Crescent: Strengthening national partnerships is a key pillar for developing humanitarian work and expanding its social impact

Khaled Al-Mughams, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Kuwait Red Crescent Society, affirmed the Society’s commitment to strengthening its strategic partnerships with national institutions and the oil sector, in order to support humanitarian work, develop community initiatives, and unify efforts to serve various segments of society. This came during Al-Mughams’s meeting with Abdulrahman Al-Alayan, Director of the Public Relations and Administrative Services Group at Kuwait Oil Tankers Company (KOTC), and his team, including Abdulwahab Al-Qatami, Head of Public Relations and Media Team, and Mariam Al-Samhan, Senior Public Relations Inspector, to discuss prospects for joint cooperation and to learn about the Society’s programs and its humanitarian and relief activities.

Al-Mughams told KUNA that the Society places great emphasis on building sustainable institutional relationships with various national entities, based on its conviction in the importance of role complementarity and leveraging capabilities and expertise to develop the humanitarian work system and enhance its capacity to respond to community needs. He added that cooperation with oil sector institutions represents an opportunity to expand the scope of humanitarian and volunteer initiatives and to benefit from institutional expertise in implementing high-quality programs that achieve tangible impact, help consolidate values of solidarity and mutual support among members of society, and enhance their sustainability within Kuwait and abroad.

For his part, Al-Alayan, in a similar statement to KUNA, affirmed KOTC’s commitment to building bridges of communication with leading humanitarian institutions and learning from their field experiences, thereby opening the door to knowledge and expertise exchange and exploring cooperation opportunities in areas of mutual interest. He noted that the visit provided an opportunity to review the Society’s relief and volunteer programs and its operational mechanisms, emphasizing the importance of benefiting from successful humanitarian experiences to develop initiatives related to corporate social responsibility and to encourage a culture of such responsibility among institutions and their employees. He praised the humanitarian and relief role played by the Kuwait Red Crescent Society both domestically and internationally, expressing his anticipation for launching joint initiatives that serve the community and achieve the desired objectives.