Infringements include unlicensed online donations and illegal adverts
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Volunteers pass out donated 'iftar' meals to worshippers, to end their day-long fast, at the Al Mubarakiya market in Kuwait City on March 1, 2025.
Volunteers pass out donated 'iftar' meals to worshippers, to end their day-long fast, at the Al Mubarakiya market in Kuwait City on March 1, 2025.
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Cairo: Kuwaiti authorities have said they registered more than 600 violations of donation-raising rules in the first half of the current Muslim holy month of Ramadan amid intense efforts in the country to regulate charitable work.
The Kuwaiti Ministry of Social Affairs said the violations, detected during inspection tours, included 41 adverts infringing donation-related regulations, and 16 other adverts issued by non-compliant charities.
Moreover, eight violations were recorded against individuals and groups touting for donation collection through street adverts.
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The ministry added that field teams had also detected 233 unlicensed clothing collection booths, the locations of which were relayed to the Kuwait Municipality for removal.
The violations, furthermore, included raising donations without official licensing. In this regard, 24 restaurants and companies were caught collecting donations on social media, according to the ministry.
The Ministry of Commerce and Industry was notified to take action against those violators.
For instance, a restaurant was found to have unlawfully called for donation to support an Iftar (fast-breaking) project. Twenty-two violations were registered against donation-raising websites that were reported to the Communications and Information Technology Regulatory Authority.
Six more violations were detected inside mosques, including adverts for collecting donations and charitable projects without prior coordination.
A box was seized for collecting cash donations without licensing, a violation that was reported to the Ministry of Waqfs and Islamic Affairs.
The month of Ramadan is a peak time for benevolence and good deeds.
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