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QC Implements Tens of Qualitat

Hundreds of goats were distributed to the people to help them start over.
Tens of hectares were restored for 250 families whose lands had been flooded.

As part of its early relief program to the victims of floods in the Middle Shebelle governorate in Somalia, QC implemented qualitative income-generating projects from which 400 families of the same governorate benefited.

Rehabilitation:

The projects included rehabilitation of the affected families and improvement of their life quality, in addition to supporting agriculture and shepherding. The program also included funding income-generating projects. For example, 750 goats were distributed to 150 families. Each family received 5 goats. This project was to enable them to get their ordinary lives back after the floods. The project also aimed at supporting shepherding and providing these families with a source of income that matched their previous professions.

QC has also restored agricultural lands in a total area of 250 hectares for 250 families who had worked in farming before the floods damaged their lands.

QC seeks to rehabilitate the agricultural and shepherding societies and start agricultural and shepherding businesses by supplying the workers with seeds and pesticides as well as manual cultivation instruments needed for local production. QC also helps them in their farmland restoration, and irrigation canals’ reformation. The program also supplied them with some cattle.

Terrible Immigration

The regions adjacent to the two rivers of Shebelle and Juba witnessed heavy rains in last October and November which led to the flooding of the rivers and caused a disastrous immigration of the inhabitants of the rivers’ banks. Middle Shebelle was mostly affected as most irrigation canals and flood control systems were damaged along the Shebelle River by these floods. Reports show that about 10,000 of the local inhabitants left their flooded cities, villages, and farms.

The objective QC had of the early relief project was to reach the local affected community in the governorate as it helped rehabilitate them in their crafts and professions. QC’s goal was to enable them to increase their daily income and enhance their life quality through a number of strategic projects including shops, production machinery, animals, and farmland restoration. This should facilitate their future confrontation to yearly floods. This project also seeks to restore artesian aquifers, reform schools and damaged clinics to help 93,000 people living in the region.

Tens of Thousands Beneficiaries

It is worth mentioning that QC has recently implemented various projects in Somalia including education, health, building mosques, and funding income-generating projects. Tens of thousands of Somalis around Somalia benefited from these projects. Of its construction projects in Puntland, QC inaugurated the reformation of 2 health centers and 2 preliminary schools at a cost of about 292,000 QR.

QC inaugurated the opening of 9 mosques, and 8 centers for memorization of Qur’an in 3 provinces in the north of Somalia: 3 mosques in the coastal province, 3 others in Burco, 1 in Awdal, and 2 in Hiran and Banaadir. It also built 8 centers for Qur’an memorization in Hiran, Banaadir, and Hargeisa. Thousands of Somalis shall benefit from these mosques and centers.

QC office in Somalia has also organized events of distributing sewing machines to 65 productive families in Mogadishu and Hargeisa city in Somaliland in cooperation with Jedoon Association for Woman and Child Development in Hargeisa and HINNA association in Mogadishu.

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QC Implements Relief Projects

The aids are sufficient for the refugees and returnees for a month
Members of the Somali Parliament and Representatives of the Yemeni community contributed in the distribution

Through its office in Somalia and as part of its relief campaign “Yemen, We are With You”, QC implemented an urgent relief project which targeted 600 families of the Yemeni refugees in Somalia and some of the Somali returnees from Yemen who are living in Mogadishu, Hargeisa, and Bosaso.

The food baskets, distributed to the beneficiaries, were sufficient for a whole month. Each family received 25 kg of rice, 25 kg of flour, 15 kg of sugar, 3 liters of cooking oil, 2.5 kg of powder milk, and 2 kg of dates.

Prominent Figures

Many prominent figures took part in the distribution of the aids to the people, including some members of the Somali parliament, and the representatives of the Yemeni community in Somalia. They all commended QC’s role in helping the Yemeni and Somali peoples.

This is one of so many other projects in which QC continues to fulfill its role in aiding and helping others. In addition, QC always makes sure that its beneficiaries are the neediest. The Yemeni people are suffering from a dire crisis which forced the families to emigrate and ask for asylum. This, of course, left the families without any living necessities.

Although Somalia is suffering from hard conditions and security issues, it became one of the countries which received the Yemeni refugees. Therefore, it is now the responsibility of those who work in charity and humanitarian fields to strengthen their efforts so that Somalia does not suffer from a critical condition, too.

130,000 Beneficiaries

130,000 beneficiaries benefited from QC’s continuous campaign ‘Yemen, We Are with You’ since the recent Yemen crisis started and until the end of last May (2015).

The food aid included 17,300 food baskets, 80 tons of flour, and 180 tons of different types of food which were distributed to the different governorates. Furthermore, 3 kitchens were prepared and equipped with foodstuff to provide daily fresh meals for 1,000 persons. Regarding healthcare, the hospitals of Aden, Ma’rib, and Taiz were supplied with some equipment, 100 first-aid bags, and a large amount of medications, and medical disposables.

In addition, 8 water tanks were distributed in Aden with the capacity of 1,000 liters. QC also distributed hundreds of mattresses and blankets to the displaced families there. Another project was funded to clean Aden Municipality in cooperation with its workers.

Call for Help

It is worth mentioning that when the Yemeni crisis started, QC appealed for help to provide 1,260,000 conflict-affected people with food, and medications.

After its appeal and as a first step, QC launched its campaign ‘Yemen, We Are with You’ to collect 36,500,000 QR (10,000,000 USD) to urgently deliver these humanitarian aids to the most affected categories.

QC also supervised the distribution of aids which Qatar sent to the people of Yemen. The aids were delivered through an air bridge from Doha to Djibouti–Ambouli International Airport following the instructions of his highness Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, God bless him. The aids were delivered over two days; there were 4 airplanes which carried 240 tons of different materials.

The aids were received by a delegation of QC which included Mr. Ibrahim Ali Abdullah, QC's Relief Department Director, and Mohammed Wa'i, QC's Office Director in Yemen.

QC’s field team was able to aid many conflict-affected families since the crisis first started in Aden and other Yemeni cities. They provided the families with food, drugs, and medical disposables. They sent the medical supplies to the hospitals so that they would treat the injured. The team also provided the families with food baskets and other basic and necessary items.

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1,000,000 People Benefit from

43,200 conflict-affected in Syria, 4,200 orphans’ families in Gaza, 120,000 people from different countries benefited from ‘Your Sacrifice, their Eid’ campaign
El Kuwairi: “We thank the Qatari people for donating to our sacrifices project which made the needy of 52 countries the world over happy

Around 1,000,000 people benefited from the sacrifices campaign for the year 1436 AH which QC implemented and called ‘Your Sacrifices, their Eid’ at a cost of around 14,000,000 QR.

Mr. Youssef Bin Ahmed El Kuwairi, QC’s CEO, expressed the relief he felt because the sacrifices project was successful. QC implemented this campaign with the help of its partners in 52 countries from around the world, including Qatar. It was able to make so many needy and low-income families, who could not provide their children with meat, happy.

The affected who suffered from exceptional circumstances were prioritized such as the Syrians inside Syria, the Syrian refugees in the neighboring countries, the Gaza Strip, Yemen, Somalia, etc.

El Kuwairi said, “I am mostly thankful to those who donated for this project in Qatar, and I pray Allah that He accept their good work and reward them. Most certainly, their donations were the reason behind making the needy happy and achieving social teamwork in Qatar.”

QC had already distributed more than 28,300 sacrifices during the season, which meant 500 tons of meat in 52 countries. More than 43,200 families inside Syria benefited from the project. It was implemented in Damascus and its countryside, Idlib and its countryside, Al Rastan, Al Houla and Talbiseh in the countryside of Aleppo, in the countrysides of Hama, of Lattakia, of Daraa, and Quneitra. In addition, 4,200 orphans’ families from the Gaza Strip and 120,000 Somalis benefited from the project.

Other countries in which the project was implemented:

Palestine, the Palestinian camps abroad, Iraq, Jordan, Qatar, Tunisia, Morocco, Lebanon, Sudan, Rwanda, Uganda, Malawi, Burundi, Kenya, Ivory Coast, Djibouti, Tanzania, Mali, Togo, Nepal, India, Chad, Central Africa, Angola, Guinea Bissau, Mauritania, Yemen, Bangladesh, Benin , The Gambia, Namibia, Lesotho, Sri Lanka, Niger, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Congo, South Africa, Ethiopia, Burkina Faso, Senegal, Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan , Indonesia, Kosovo, Comoros Islands, Albania, the Philippines, Ghana, Bosnia, Ethiopia, and Georgia.

QC inaugurated a special campaign for pilgrimage and Eid Al Adha for this year (1436 AH). It included distributing the sacrifices inside and outside Qatar, giving people the chance to perform substitute Hajj, and distributing Eid clothing. Tens of thousands of people will benefit from this project.

The project was also implemented inside Qatar on the third and fourth days of Eid Al Adha. 2,500 sacrifices were distributed from which 12,000 people benefited, including 668 sponsored families with limited income.

Some of the Qatari volunteers helped in the distribution. In addition, QC, for the first time, offered delivery service using refrigerated cars. The sacrifices were given to the beneficiaries at their homes in Khor, Al-Shahaniya, Industrial Area (Sanaiya), and other areas inside Qatar.

This project also targeted the orphans’ and the low-income families, the indebted, the laborers, the divorced, Ramila Hospital’s inpatients, the laborers, courts, the bank, the mail, Al Qahira School, Al Cilia territory, and Abu Hamur territory and the Indian, Egyptian, Yemeni and Philippine communities.

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QC Rehabilitates 7 Artesian Aq

24,500 people and tens of thousands of cattle benefit from the project every day in Middle Shebelle which was affected by floods.
The project helped offer the services of public facilities such as education, health and water in affected territories.

As part of the recovery projects QC is implementing in Somalia, QC's office there finished working on rehabilitating 7 artesian aquifers in Middle Shebelle whose people had suffered from shortages in drinking water. More than 24,500 people and tens of thousands of cattle are expected benefit from the project every day.

Mr. Mohammed Hussein Omar, QC's Office Director in Somalia said, "This rehabilitation project is to resume offered services such as education, health and water. It is mainly to meet the people's need for drinking water. The floods damaged the aquifers causing a dire shortage in drinking water. As a result, many people left their areas. It used to take them hours to reach drinking water."

Based on the conducted field studies, as he mentioned, QC's office rehabilitated the aquifers by increasing their depth and fixing their network pipes. The office equipped the wells with electric engines and pumps. It also built and rehabilitated the tanks and basins for animals to drink from; and generators rooms and storehouses for the wells' equipment.

"In 2013 and 2014, Somalia witnessed many natural disasters. QC implemented this project in order to support the affected families and help them overcome such a humanitarian disaster," said he.

Commendations

QC's office in Somalia thanked the Qatari philanthropists and people residing in Qatar for their great efforts. They reflect the true face of the generous Qatari society. "We offer our help to Somalia in the different fields of shelter, food and medication and others because of our religious and moral bond that connects us to the needy people around the world," added he.

Early Recovery

The Early Recovery project in Middle Shebelle is in the process of implementing important projects for the affected families, especially the farmers and shepherds. QC aims at improving their livelihoods and their style of living. In Somalia, QC had already reformed 250 hectares of lands; and provided manual plowing tools, seeds and pesticides for the farmers. In addition, QC distributed sheep and dairy cows to 250 affected families in the governorate; it rehabilitated 3 primary schools and 4 health centers.

Through Early Recovery, QC aims at reaching the affected local community. It will help train the Somalis to work and have better daily incomes. The total budget for the recovery projects reached around 3,650,000 QR. More than 93,000 people from Middle Shebelle are expected to benefit from them.

In addition, QC financed income-generating projects in Middle Shebelle. 750 sheep were distributed to 150 families. Each family received 5 sheep. Such project was to help the families have their old lives back, especially after the floods they suffered from. Also, it would reinforce grazing as a profession for shepherds so they would become financially independent.

Urgent Aids

Because of the drought that hit Somalialand, QC quickly responded to aid its people. The project included distributing food supplies and offering medical services. More than 71,000 people benefited from the project. For the past two decades, Somalia has been witnessing so many crises and natural disasters; in so many times was considered the worst internationally. The number of displaced people in Somalia reached around 1,100,000 people living in the big cities such as Somalialand, Puntland and the south of Somalia.

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Al Jazeera Network & QC Sign J

Al Kuwairi: Media is charity's key partner. We are happy to expand our strategic cooperation with Al Jazeera
Al Najjar: Our cooperation with QC goes back in time and is continuous. This agreement will speed up work action.

QC and Al Jazeera Network signed a partnership and joint cooperation agreement so as to reinforce media support to charity work and to serve vulnerable groups around the world. The agreement aims at making use of Al Jazeera Network channels to widely cover QC's projects around the world and show its developmental impact. It will also be a means to show how QC's projects make a difference in people's lives. In addition, QC will be able to make use of Al Jazeera's centers for training and studies.

On behalf of QC, Mr. Youssef bin Ahmed Al Kuwairi, QC's CEO, signed the agreement with Mr. Abdullah Al Najjar, Executive Director of Global Communications and Brand at Al Jazeera. After signing the agreement, QC and Al Jazeera Network exchanged honorary shields.

Mr. Al Kuwairi expressed his deep happiness for such occasion. "Media is charity's key partner. We are happy to expand our strategic cooperation with Al Jazeera. It is media that can shed light on disasters and the aftermaths of wars, draw attention to the necessity for humanitarian intervention, and highlight the impact of projects; and their outcomes in the fields of relief and development," he said.

Mr. Al Kuwairi thanked Al Jazeera Network and its channels for their continuous support to QC's projects and its humanitarian interventions in the field. "Al Jazeera covers our projects around the world. We hope this agreement would reinforce our cooperation and speed it up in whatever that serves the people and benefiting groups," he added.

Al Kuwairi also stressed on the importance of carrying out the agreement as soon as possible considering the great role it is aspired the agreement would achieve. "We need to join our efforts in order to meet the needs of as many as possible."

For his part, Mr. Al Najjar said that cooperation between QC, which is considered one of the most important societies across the Arab world, and Al Jazeera went way back in time. "We are pleased to extend our cooperation through signing this agreement. We hope such work would contribute to offering humanitarian services and achieving QC's global humanitarian objectives".

Al Najjar commended the last cooperation agreement between QC and Al Jazeera Network on the occasion of recently holding World Media Summit in Doha. "It was a wonderful gesture from both parties to produce the documentaries which were displayed and the gifts which were distributed; they included handmade products for the needy mothers and female refugees around the world," he commented.

According to the cooperation agreement, QC financed the release of 5 short documentaries on the female refugees and needy women in 5 different countries: Palestine – Gaza; The Democratic Republic of the Congo; Zaatari Refugee Camp in Jordan; Guatemala in South America and Darfur; they were all produced by Al Jazeera.

The 5 videos were displayed during the summit which was hosted by Al Jazeera Network. The videos presented the success stories of such women who struggled against the circumstances and made products so as to sell them and pay for their own expenses.

As an honoring gesture from QC and Al Jazeera for hardworking women, they made a box called Global Heritage Group that was distributed to the attendants of the World Media Summit. Each box had a handmade product and letters that told the stories of each woman. It was meant to encourage such women on to keep moving forward against all odds.

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QC Supports 250 Farming Famili

Through its office in Somalia, QC implemented a project to support young farmers who were affected by the floods which hit the country the past years. This project is considered part of the Early Recovery program designed to help the floods-affected in Middle Shebelle.

The project is mainly about supporting 250 poor farming families which live by the Shebelle bank in Jawhar Province. The benefiting families would receive manual plowing tools, seeds and pesticides. 250 hectares of lands would be reformed; 1 hectare for each family.

Empowering Farming Families

In order to help the farming families permanently benefit from the running river, QC provided 10 engines for irrigation. These engines were distributed according to the agricultural cooperatives which represented the young farmers. In addition, 10 km of irrigation canals were rehabilitated to help the beneficiaries farm throughout the whole year. That positively helped the farmers increase their crops, thus increase their income.

Early Recovery

This project is implemented to help the floods-affected in Middle Shebelle. It aims at offering more humanitarian services, where such services are not sufficient. It also aims at offering the affected the help they need because of the harsh life they live. The project seeks to help the agricultural communities in rehabilitating and resuming the farming business. The project offers them seeds, pesticides, and manual plowing tools necessary for local production.

It also helps them through reforming the farming lands, rehabilitating the irrigation canals, re-operating the health and educational systems, raising the standards of the affected families. It will serve the health and educational systems through rehabilitating the educational, health and water facilities, schools, clinics and wells. As for raising their living standards, the project offers small income-generating projects.

Mr. Mohammed Hussein, QC's Office Director in Somalia, expressed his deep thanks and gratitude for the philanthropists of Qatar for the efforts they exerted. "This reflects the goodness of the giving Qatari community. Helping our brothers and sisters in Somalia in the fields of shelter, food, medications and others springs from the Qataris' understanding of their moral and religious duty towards the needy people around the world," he said.

Continuous Aids

Through its office in Somalia, QC has recently started implementing its urgent relief project for the people who were affected by the drought which hit Somalia Land, to the North West of Somalia. The project targets around 30,000 affected family members. The food supplies, clean water, and medications will be distributed to them.

The project also includes delivering 3,000 food supplies to the drought-affected families for a whole month. In addition, 7,875 affected people will receive clean water through water tanks. 2,000 people will receive health services through mobile clinics which aim at carrying out medical tests and dispensing medications. Furthermore, some doctors and nurses will be contracted with in order for them to raise people's awareness about health issues.

Rehabilitating the Water Wells

In Middle Shebelle in Somalia, QC has recently finished rehabilitating 7 Artesian wells as part of its early recovery projects which targeted the flood-affected people. The beneficiaries used to suffer from shortages in drinking water. The project is expected to serve more than 24,000 people and tens of thousands of cattle on a daily basis.

The project aims at resuming the services of public facilities such as those related to education, health and water. In addition, it aims at meeting the people's need for drinking water. The floods had destroyed the Artesian wells and people were forced to leave their houses and use tools that took hours so as to get a few liters of clean drinking war.

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