A Reply to Charitable Societies Profit or Non-profit Associations [Archives:2000/51/Local News]

Dear Mr. Walid Abdul-Aziz Al-Saqqaf
Despite the efforts of your newspaper (YT) in obtaining accurate information from reliable sources and its avoiding of non-random generalizations and its good reputation, we were unfortunately surprised to read in issue No. 49 dated 4122000 about the shortcomings of the Yemeni charitable societies among which The Charitable Society for Social Welfare was included. However, our society is a pioneering one that achieved and is still achieving many auspicious successes in charitable domains since it was established in 1990. Your father, Late Dr. Abdul-Aziz Al-Saqqaf, may God rest him in peace, hailed our efforts on many occasions in this regard. Besides, it is enough to indicate to what Dr. Hameed Ziad Ameen, the Societys Secretary General, said in a statement that on the first ten days of this month of Ramadan the society provided more than 1500 meals for tens of thousands of poor people and passersby and distributed quantities of dates and foodstuffs like wheat, flour, sugar, rice, oil and fast meals on 24000 families (264,772 people).
The societys strategic charitable projects like hospitals, schools, universities and rehabilitation centers are countless. Among those projects are the centers of deaf, blind and mentally diseased people of both sexes. Here, we would like you and your reputable newspaper to pay a field visit to the society and its projects so as to get factual information.
Thank you in anticipation for publishing this reply as to maintain the Right to Respond.
Yours Sincerely
Gameel Mohammed Al-Anesy
General Manager of the Society

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