The Saudi Relief Campaign and the International Organization of Migration (IOM) will sign an agreement on Saturday to help finance a city, comprising 500-housing units and other public utility facilities and costing SR 38,739,278, to assist victims of the earthquake and tsunami in East Asia. The signing of the agreement comes within the framework of royal directives to establish cooperation between IOM and the Saudi Relief Campaign as well as directives of Minister of Interior Prince Naif Bin Abdul-Aziz, who is also the Campaign's General Supervisor. Speaking on the occasion, Saaed Al-Orabi Al-Harthi, Advisor to the Minister of Interior, who will be signing the agreement with Brunson McKinley, the Director General of IOM said, the city will be established in the District Ampara in Sri Lanka. On its part, he said the Sri Lankan government offered the land suitable for the project in order to alleviate the sufferings of Sri Lankan refugees whose homes were demolished by the earthquake and tsunami which struck the region. Al-Harthi pointed out that the project spread over an area of 242,900 square meters, will have 500 housing units, a hospital, a school for boys and another school for girls, a mosque, a recreation and events hall, a bus station, a shopping center and a sports stadium.
