By Waseem Haider
BAR ELIAS, Lebanon, Oct 14 (KUNA) Among gestures to provide merriment and joviality to children of Syrian refugees in Lebanon, Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) gifted a school for refugees here with a well equipped playground, said a Kuwaiti official on Wednesday.
A ceremony was held for the opening of the new playground at AlAndalus school, to which KRCS envoy in Lebanon, Musa'ad AlEnezi, was invited, among other officials.
The school, located in the town of Bar Elias in East Lebanon, has 350 students, up to 90 percent of whom belong to Syrian refugee families, said AlEnezi, in remarks to KUNA, adding that the playground would allow these students to live their childhood in about as normal a fashion as possible, given their extraordinary circumstances.
Concomitant with today's opening of the new school playground, KRCS distributed relief aid to about 1000 Syrian refugee families in East Lebanon.
AlAndalus School officials thanked the KRCS and Kuwait for their help. KRCS had opened last week a similar playground for children of Syrian refugees in the village of Ketermaya in the Shawf region in Lebanon. Another playground is set to open soon in the Wadi Khaled area in northern Lebanon. (end) wsh.ajs