Saudi Women Form Charity Unit Under Red Crescent

Saudi Women Form Charity Unit Under Red Crescent: "Saudi Women Form Charity Unit Under Red Crescent
Ebtihal Mubarak, Arab News


JEDDAH, 13 August 2006 — After signing a petition condemning the US and UK support for Israel’s large-scale war on Lebanon, Saudi women chose not to confine their activism to words alone.

So the group has become the first women contingent of the Saudi Red Crescent Society after Dr. Salih Hamad Al-Tuwaijri, the organization’s president, accepted their proposal.

“All over the world civil society organizations have a database of volunteers they refer to in times of crisis,” said Fawziya Abu Khaled, a poet and sociology professor at King Saud University."