According to Al-Qabas daily, the Ministry of Social Affairs and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs today launched a joint campaign for Pakistan relief. During the first hours of the campaign, more than 6,397 citizens and residents came forward, and made serious donations for the support and relief of those afflicted in Pakistan. From the start of the donation campaign, they collected 148,000 dinars in less than an hour. In the campaign, only financial electronic donations were allowed, whether through Knet or Visa and MasterCard, which allowed the participation of donors from outside Kuwait.

Acting Undersecretary of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Community Development, Musallam Al-Subaie, said Kuwait has a long history of charity work that has made Kuwait a station of peace and goodwill. Al-Subaie said in a press statement on the occasion of International Charitable Day, which falls on September 5 of each year, that Kuwait contributed to alleviating the suffering of the poor and afflicted in various parts of the world, pointing out that charity work is rooted in Kuwait and means a lot to it and is an integral part of its fragrant journey. He pointed out that the Ministry of Social Affairs urges charity work as a means of permanent support to the needy and downtrodden and those afflicted by man-made and natural calamities, and to build bridges of human communication to achieve this noble goal.

The Ministry of Social Affairs, represented by the Charitable Societies Department, has handed over "usernames" and "passwords" to 64 charitable societies for use in the automated donation collection system, according to reliable sources in the ministry. Something that the ministry is working on launching soon following the completion of the phase of collecting and entering data for each charitable society separately, reports Al-Anba daily.

According to the sources, the ministry will upload charitable projects on the special platform in accordance with the rules and conditions applicable to requests to implement charitable projects inside and outside Kuwait. It falls within six models – construction (internal and external), social development (internal and external), and sponsorships (internal and external), various projects (internal and external), external relief campaigns, and seasonal (internal and external) campaigns. They affirmed that the approved electronic mechanism for collecting donations enjoys a high degree of confidentiality in preserving the data and information of the charitable societies by up to 100 percent. It is expected that the automated system will be launched before the end of next year, according to sources.