SPENDING OF KUWAITIS DOUBLES IN RAMADAN

  • 18/04/2022

Kuwait City: According to consumer behaviour consultant Salah Al-Jimaz, Kuwaitis' spending doubled during Ramadan, and with it, family budgets increased by 60 percent to 70 percent. The average cost of breaking the fast for a small Kuwaiti family is estimated to be around 12 dinars (about 40 dollars). "Kuwaiti expenditures are usually high during the holy month due to travel for Umrah, special household items for the kitchen and dining table, buying Eid clothes, especially for women and children," Al- Jimaz says, adding, "If the average spending is 500 dinars at other times during Ramadan it is a thousand dinars."


Meanwhile, the Kuwait Society for the Blind has announced additional services for the blind community, including enhanced programmes to identify and support brilliant blind people. Following the visit of Hawalli Governor Ali Al-Asfar to the society in the presence of its president Fahd Abu Shaiba and chairman Fayez Al-Azmi, the organisation issued a press statement. The governor was briefed on the association's most pressing issues and challenges, and he committed to endeavour to resolve them. He also paid a visit to the Holy Quran Center, which specialises in printing the Qur'an in Braille for the blind, and lauded the center's efficiency, noting that it sends 2,000 copies of the Quran to Arab and Islamic countries.

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