King Launches "Winter Coat" Campaign for School Students

Amman
02 December 2004

Within the attention given by His Majesty King Abdullah II to school students and his continuous keeness to inspect their conditions, His Majesty launched today "the Winter Coat campaign" that includes the distribution of 182,000 coats to public and military culture schools in various parts of the Kingdom at His Majesty's own expense.



The campaign started at the Ghirnatah school in the Madaba
governorate where the King distributed coats to its students to
protect them against winter.


King Abdullah's endowment, which comes as a personal donation
from His Majesty to school students, will include, over ten days
about 2000 schools for boys and girls from the 1st grade to the
6the grade in remote areas.


His Majesty, who was accompanied by his personal advisor Yousef
Dalabeeh, Minister of the Hashemite Royal Court Sameer Rifai and
Minister of Education Dr. Khaled Touqan, listened to the needs and
demands of some students.


Minister of education for his part thanked His Majesty for his
endowment, noting that it reflects the care and attention given by
the King to students.