KUWAIT CITY : Kuwait is launching an intensive inspection campaign on charity activities to ensure alms and donations collected from the public are not tunneled to terrorist organisations and groups. The newly-appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs and Acting Minister of Social Affairs and Labour, Sheikh Mohammed Al-Sabah has issued an order to form a committee which will conduct field inspections on charity activities in the country.
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Ministry Undersecretary Sheikh Duaij Al-Khalifa Al-Sabah issued a decision, based on Sheikh Mohammed's order, to form a committee which includes in its membership nine senior Ministry officials, in addition to representatives from the Ministries of Interior and Commerce and Industry and Kuwait Municipality. The committee will ensure donations and alms collected from the public are conducted in a legal fashion with proof either by voucher or bank monthly deductions. The committee is authorised, based on the Minister's order, to inspect all types of charity organisations and their branches, including kiosks affiliated to them. The decision also forbids non-governmental organisations and charity societies from placing special containers and money boxes at markets, mosques and other public areas.
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The committee should also ensure charity organisations are in full compliance with the Labour Law regulating the recruitment of expatriates in the private sector. It prohibits them from recruiting expatriates in violation of the provisions of the law.
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