Prince Talal donates ISESCO $ 500,000

President of the Arab Gulf Program for supporting UN Development Organizations, Prince Talal Ibn Abdel Aziz, donated US$ 500,000 as a contribution to the construction of the permanent headquarters of the Rabat-based Islamic, Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO).

Prince Talal handed over the donation at a meeting in Rabat Thursday with ISESCO director general Abdulaziz Othman Altwaijri.

The meeting highlighted by the signing of a cooperation agreement between ISESCO and the Arab Gulf program.

Prince Talal who is also president of the Arab childhood and development council and president of the Arab network of national organizations, is visiting Morocco to take part in the Arab Regional Civil Society Forum on Childhood held in Rabat February 15 through 19.