Update On Saudi Prince Gift of 2.8 Milliion to SVDP for Katrina Victims.

Beth
July 18, 2006

Follow-up to earlier SVDP story… Saudi Arabia has donated more than $250 million to Katrina relief projects, ranking it among the world’s most sympathetic countries to New Orleans storm damages, said Prince Turki Al-Faisal, ambassador of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the United States.
And more Saudi help is in the pipeline.Al-Faisal, touring the devastated Ninth Ward as part of a goodwill visit, told a group of political leaders Wednesday at the New Orleans World Trade Center that his country will continue to support the Crescent City.

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