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HRH Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdulaziz Alsaud, Chairman of Alwaleed bin Talal Foundation (ABTF) donated $103,850 to The Susie Reizod Foundation’s project: New Shoes Donations to Children in Need in Catastrophe Areas of Africa and Asia.

The project provided new shoes to 15,000 children who were victims of catastrophe in Indonesia, Sudan, Somalia, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. These countries were chosen because of devastation resulting from natural and man-made disasters. The children who reside in these areas are witness to family death, dislocation, disease, as well as dire poverty. Many of them are refugees.

The Susie Reizod Foundation served 3,000 children from each of the five geographic areas. Children in need were identified through contact with schools, orphanages, and families in the targeted areas.

The Susie Reizod Foundation is a non-profit charitable organization, located in New York. Its mission is to provide new shoes to children in need, whoever and wherever they are. Since April 2002 the Foundation has donated new shoes to 8,000 children in need in poor urban and rural areas of the United States, Ecuador, Nicaragua, India (including Tsunami victims), Haiti, South Africa, Grenada, Tibet, Angola, Kashmir, victims of the Pakistan earthquake, Colombia, Tanzania, Dominican Republic, Nigeria, Jamaica, and China.

This is the second project that ABTF has supported. In February 2006, ABTF awarded $5,000 to The Susie Reizod Foundation for new shoes to 825 children in Kashmir.

HRH through ABTF has donated to many philanthropic projects globally including, $687,500 to the Cambodian Muslim Community Development, Revolving Leadership Program; $500,000 to the Turquoise Mountain, Afghanistan; $766,848 to Leadership University College , Bangladesh; and a $1 million donation to The Right to Live Society , Gaza. HRH recently announcement his readiness to donate over 100 housing units with a total of SR5 million to victims of the run down slum areas in Cairo, a $235,282 donation to Oxfam’s project to Increase Market Access for Women in Senegal, a donation of over $3 million to the Darfur region of Sudan and donated $356,500 to Deworm the World Initiative.

The initiative was presented by Young Global Leaders (YGL) Education Taskforce at the Davos World Economic Forum. Last year HRH made a $360,000 donation to SOS Children’s Village in Indonesia and made a substantial emergency donation to Indonesia's flood victims. In 2006, HRH made a donation for the Yemen landslide victims and in the same year donated $1 million through the United Nations World Food Program (UNWFP) to the drought-ravaged people of Kenya.

His Highness had made a SR20 million donation to Pakistan’s earth quake victims in 2005. Other major donations made by HRH included $19 million to South East Asia's Tsunami victims, $830,000 donation to the families of the Egyptian train fire victims, 80 tons of supplies to the Algerian quake victims, $500,000 to Jammeh Foundation for Peace in The Gambia to fund a diagnostic center, one million Egyptian Pounds (LE) in support of Mrs. Susanne Mubarak campaign for the treatment of children suffering from cancer, $5 million to assist in the rescue and rebuilding efforts in the wake of floods in Morocco, $5 million to support the Carter Center Peace and Health programs in Africa, and the rebuilding of Zayzoon village in Syria after it was wiped by floods caused by the collapse of a dam.

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