Ambassador of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques to Bangladesh Dr Abdullah bin Zafer bin Abiyah on Wednesday inaugurated the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s project to distribute sacrificial meat among underprivileged communities in Bangladesh.

The project was inaugurated on the Embassy premise, in cooperation with the Udhiyah Project, under the supervision of the Royal Commission for Makkah City and the Holy Sites.

Abdur Rashid, Director (Admin) of the Department of Disaster Management and Relief and Jahangir, Deputy Director of the Department of Disaster Management and Relief and Mostofa Jamil Khan, Director of West Asia Wing, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Ambassador Ibrahim Al-Ahmari, the representative of the Udhiyah Project, Ahmed Al-Zahrani, along with a number of journalists and media personals were present at the inaugural ceremony.

This project is a part of the Kingdom's charitable work, which is an extension of the humanitarian and relief projects implemented by the Kingdom to benefit all Muslims from the sacrificial meat.

This year, a total of 40,000 sacrificial animals, equivalent to 372 tons of meat, have been allocated for Bangladesh.

The meat was handed over to the Bangladesh government for distribution among deserving families across all 64 districts

The Kingdom's project to benefit from sacrificial meat extends over more than four decades and is one of the largest logistic supports in the world, benefiting needy groups in more than 25 countries around the world.

The Saudi Arabia Project for Utilizing Hadi and Sacrificial Animals, in cooperation with the Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief, distributed a portion of the sacrificial animal’s meat in the Chittagong region in presence of Ahmed Al-Zahrani from the Saudi Arabia Project for Utilizing Hadi and Sacrificial Animals, Jahangir, Deputy Director of the Department of Disaster Management and Yasser Shesha, representative of the Saudi Embassy in Dhaka.