Convention on Cooperation in the Care of Prisoners

Wednesday-2017-05-17

The Social Development Bank signed a cooperation agreement with the National Commission for the Welfare of Prisoners, Released and Their Families (Traham), Thursday, 8 divisions, 1438H, at the Bank headquarters in Riyadh.

The Bank for Social Development signed a cooperation agreement with the National Commission for the Welfare of Prisoners, Released and Their Families, Traham, Thursday, 8 divisions, 1438H, at the headquarters of the Bank in the city of
Riyadh.

The Convention was signed by the Bank, H.E. the Director-General of the Bank, Dr. Abdullah Bin Abdulrahman Al-Namla, and by the National Commission for the Welfare of Prisoners, Released and Their Families (Traham), Secretary-General Mohamed Bin Ayad Al Zahrani, in the presence of a number of officials of the two communities.

The three-year-old Convention aims at the Bank for Social Development providing its various social and development programmes for the benefit of society, including prisoners and their families, as well as from the role of the National Commission for the Care of Prisoners, Released and Their Families (Traham) in addressing the material and moral problems of inmates, prisoners, released persons and their families and contributing to the provision of services.

The Convention includes the social finance sector for Saudi prisoners of both sexes in financial rights cases (Dion), where the Bank provides good financial funding to no more than 60,000 rials, in accordance with the Bank ' s controls and mechanisms with other clients, and the wife of the prisoner is entitled to the Bank ' s funding programmes in cases where the prisoner is unable to benefit from the Bank ' s programmes in accordance with the bank ' s requirements.

Prisoners ' families could also benefit from the Bank ' s funding programmes for the small and emerging enterprise sector as provided by the Commission and considered appropriate by the Bank.