RIYADH: University graduates from King Saud University and Princess Noura bint Abdulrahman University will serve as volunteer ambassadors for the Riyadh Metro project, as part of a recently launched campaign to introduce a public transport culture among the residents of the capital, according to the Riyadh Development Authority.
The campaign aims to create appropriate conditions for the launch of the $22.5 billion Riyadh Metro, also called the King Abdulaziz Project for Riyadh Public Transport.
Volunteer ambassadors will conduct field visits, said Khalid bin Abdullah Al-Hazani, architectural projects program director at the High Commission for the Development of Riyadh.
The field visits will depend on a timetable of programs to provide educational presentations and awareness campaigns regarding the Riyadh Metro in cooperation with the Education Ministry.
The volunteer ambassadors’ mission will be to present the initiative to their student counterparts in schools and universities in the capital.
The project includes workshops to qualify and train 150 university graduates in communicating with the community and introducing the transport system. The Riyadh Metro is scheduled to open in 2019.
University graduates to serve as volunteer ambassadors for Riyadh Metro
University graduates to serve as volunteer ambassadors for Riyadh Metro
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KSrelief transfers Gaza girl to Jordan for cancer treatment
- Roza Al-Dreimli in Jordan because Israel destroyed Gaza hospitals
- Under assessment, monitoring at the King Hussein Cancer Center
AMMAN: A cancer-stricken Palestinian girl from Gaza is now undergoing clinical observation prior to treatment at a specialist hospital in Jordan, thanks to Saudi Arabia’s aid agency KSrelief.
Roza Al-Dreimli was transported to Amman from the Gaza Strip through the initiative of KSrelief, as a part of Saudi Arabia’s continued medical support for Palestinians, the Saudi Press Agency reported on Friday.
Al-Dreimli was prioritized because assessments indicated the need for advanced treatment of cancerous cells at the base of her brain. She is at the King Hussein Cancer Center, and being treated by a team of pediatricians.
She is currently undergoing “intensive clinical monitoring” to “ensure control of the condition, and prevent any potential neurological or visual complications resulting from the tumor’s location,” the SPA reported.
Al-Dreimli’s family expressed profound gratitude for KSrelief’s swift intervention, and hoped the specialized care would ensure a full recovery.
Such specialized care is currently unavailable in the Gaza Strip because of Israel’s alleged genocidal destruction of hospitals and killing of medical workers since Oct. 7, 2023.
Israel has systematically destroyed homes and commercial buildings and infrastructure in the Palestinian enclave, killing over 70,000 Palestinians, many of them unarmed men, women and children, and injuring more than 170,000.
Tel Aviv has stated that its actions were in retaliation to a raid by Hamas of Israeli border villages, during which the militant group reportedly killed more than 1,200 people and took 254 hostages.
