The Minister of Commerce and Industry and Minister of Social Affairs and Community Development, Fahd Al-Shariaan, submitted a proposal requesting to allow charities to collect in-kind donations as per guidelines set by the Ministry of Social Affairs. The Minister submitted the proposal to the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers that includes amending Cabinet Decision No. 867 of 2001, Item No. 7 which stipulated to stop and remove all types and forms of collection of clothing, as well as collection of surplus food scattered in markets, mosques, and public endowment places, provided that they are inside mosques only.
The sources revealed to an Arab daily that Al-Shariaan’s proposal came after the Kuwait Relief Society, one of the registered charities, submitted a request to license a project that involves collection of clothes inside Kuwait, in cooperation with a company specialized in selling used clothes, and disbursing the proceeds to underserved people in developing countries.
The project’s concept is for the company to accept used items as in-kind donations by registering the donors in the “Aounak” electronic application, so that these items are received from the donors registered in the app and disposed of so that the proceeds return to the licensed charity’s projects.
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