The traditional bakeries were established in remote villages to provide a reasonable income to their owners.

QC implemented Income Generating Projects in central Mauritania region and established 10 traditional bakeries in different villages in Brakna Region, which empowered the families economically and served 8000 people from the surrounding areas. Last year, QC established 30 bakeries in several Mauritanian villages and districts benefited 24,000 people.

The traditional bakeries were established in Barkéol, Municipality of Alghabra and other villages such as Bouhrat, Wadi Alnnays, Bambira and Jabb Sundaj.

The bakeries were constructed according to certain specification to avoid damage caused to bakeries built of mud. They consist of small rooms for preparing the dough and wood-fired ovens due to power cut in the areas.

Before QC built the new bakeries, the old bakeries were very bad and rickety as they were built of mud and therefore collapsed because of rain or high temperatures in the summer season.

Breadwinners suffer

In those villages breadwinners work in agriculture during monsoon rains but because rain amount is not heavy they emigrated their villages to cities looking for job opportunities, leaving their wives bear the burden of raising their children for several months.

Positive results

The results of this project were very positive as it provided the targeted families with job opportunities while provided the families with bread at reasonable prices.

Breadwinners expressed their happiness to those income-generating projects including the bakeries which were built according to modern specifications and resistant to difficult natural conditions after they were working in old bakeries for low wages barely enough to feed their families.

They also extended their gratitude and sincere thanks to the donors of Qatar and QC for their developmental role in Mauritania, particularly in remote and rural areas which are characterized by limited services compared to urban areas.

Economic empowerment

It is noteworthy to mention that the traditional bakeries established through Income Generating Projects contributed to improve the economic conditions of the beneficiaries as they provided them with a reasonable income and provided families living in remote and rural areas with bread.

QC has already established 30 traditional bakeries distributed over several villages and rural areas which have a very limited access to basic social services.

QC has launched the fifth version of the national program to reinforce a code of values in partnership and cooperation with the Ministry of Education and Higher Education, Regulatory Authority for Charitable Activities (RACA), Koran Kareem Radio and Tarbeya Center for Future Leaders.

Qatar Charity (International Charity Organization) and its partners aim to activate the Value-Based Education in the community through the running of this program, which was launched in a press conference. This program will mainly target schools through a considerably integrated and engaging educational and cultural content by using creative and motivating methods for students to enable them to constructively interact with their teachers as well as with their peers through practice in the different areas of the program’s competition.

Yes to listening

The program’s competition “value challenge’ focuses on listening to the teachers. QC hopes to positively and substantially contribute to changing the behavior of the students as well as to direct their attention towards a number of chosen values every year through various engaging, effective and persuasive means.

Areas of contest

The contest has many areas. The first one is for students in different academic stages and it involves drawing, theatre, writing stories, animation, photographing by Instagram, and Nabati poetry. Another one is dedicated to teachers in regard to practical experiments for behavior modification. A third field is assigned to schools reinforcing values and charitable initiatives (schools that contribute to promoting the students’ aptitude for good deeds and providing them with the techniques of humanitarian projects marketing). Finally, there is a space for the guardians as well.

Preparing a value based content and distributing it to schools in order to help teachers foster the value of respect for the teacher is what has distinguished the competition this year.

Communication promotion

QC, through the national program for a code of values reinforcement, is looking forward to achieving the following:

• Reinforcing the original values of the students.
• Strengthening the communication values between the family and the school, which is considered the most important institute of socialization, and between the students and their peers.
• Through the positive proposal of values, emphasizing the Qatari society constancies and pillars.
• Developing the special ability of artistic creativity and encouraging creative talents.
• Discovering the real talents of students and highlighting it in their society.
• Raising the quality of Cultural Projects that are available now in the educational system.
• A great contribution to successful attainment of listening-to-teachers value in classes.
• Promoting the prestige of the teacher and his respect, as he is a successor to messengers’ mission. 
• Evolving the style of management at schools using developed and efficient means.

It is worth mentioning that the last four versions of the national program for values reinforcement, suggested by QC, has included: positive responsibility, gratitude and honesty, collaboration, and “who is the most benefactor with others” value.

A participation of 25 students from various faculties of Qatar University has recently been the final touch of "Tamkeen Club" camp’s activities, a camp sponsored by QC. The students formed four teams who defiantly competed looking forward to winning a value-based competition.

Time commitment, compliance and obedience; and benign competition have been the values around which the competition  revolved. The students have been exerting great efforts to challenge and to deservedly win the competition during the two-day camp.

Collaboration Agreement

"Our considerable interest toward universities’ students lies in supporting them and contributing to the development of their life skills, so QC sponsored "Tamkeen Club"  camp at Qatar University, provided and equipped a site where the camp took place in Al-Shahaniya city, Qatar.  The camp was such a precious platform to help the students develop their capabilities in the field of voluntary work, taking initiatives and time management.”, Ali Al Gareeb, QC’s Public Relations manager, stated. He, as well, mentioned that this activity was conducted as a part of the agreement signed between Qatar Charity(International Charity Organization) and Qatar University for the sake of supporting sporting and voluntary activities, and helping students who face serious financial problems.

Referring to the same issue, Mr. Faisal Al Haythami, the camp's supervisor, said that Qatar Charity contributed to the club's success by fulfilling the camps voluntary objectives that are represented in getting a rise in Qatar University students' values through taking up the challenge. He also pointed out that QC’s camp has actually been the right choice to undertake the activity resulting in reaching the peak of a howling success and achieving their goals. In addition, he showed his appreciation for the ongoing partnership between Qatar Charity and the students' clubs of Qatar University in many social areas and voluntary initiatives that take a remarkable role in community service and regional development based on Qatar’s vision for 2030.

Time Management

According to what Al Haythami said, “Time Commitment” came in the first rank among the most significant areas in the competition. Now that time commitment is closely linked to the fulfillment of the covenant which is one of the good morals in Islam, it’s an important value that is in need to shed the light on and promote. 

Compliance and Obedience

The second value which is worthy highly promoting through the competition,  and which also wasn’t less important than the first one is “Compliance and Obedience”. It included showing compliance and obedience for your parents within what pleases Allah, for your boss at work to facilitate everyone’s mission, and for teachers to encourage students to listen to them. Reinforcing this value in these fields help benefit the public interest.

Benign Competition

The third valuable area in the competition that Al Haythami talked about was “Benign competition” since it prevents students from cheating, deceiving others, and using twisted manners which contradict with the spirit of transparency. It likely encourages them to graciously accept the opponent’s winning and have a sense of sportsmanship calling for “My opponent’s triumph is mine”.