Qatar University team and QC delegation of volunteers visited Mauritania as part of the "Competitors" Radio Program in order to assess the field needs and get acquinted with the location of the development project. This visit is as part of the competition held with the Education City Team based on the humanitarian work innovation standards.

Based on the Mauritania’s development needs and after deliberations with QC office in Nouakchott  relevant to its intervention priorities and plans implemented in Mauritania, a multi-service center shall be established in Janaba, Brakna region. This area is classified as one of the poorest areas and is known as the "triangle of poverty". The project's total value is QR 1,100,000 and it includes a school, a clinic and an artesian well for the benefit of 25,000 people. The Director of the Information Department, Mr. Ahmed Saleh Al Ali, headed the delegation of Qatar Charity. This delegation included Qatar University team and social media activists.

The Qatari Embassy

The delegation visited the Qatari embassy in Nouakchott and met with the ambassador of the State of Qatar in Nouakchott, Mr. Abdulrahman Bin Ali Al Ajaj Al Kubaisi, who highlighted the huge development projects implemented by the State of Qatar, the Qatari organizations and the Qatari key figures in Mauritania. These projects are implemented in various fields including water, social housing, the health sector, education and social assistance provided to vulnerable groups. At the end of the meeting, QC delegation provided a souvenir to His Excellency the Qatari Ambassador for his great efforts related to supporting Qatar Charity and the Qatari organizations operating in Mauritania.

Visiting the Residents of Janaba

The team land travelled from Nouakchott to the targeted area, Janaba that is about 500 km away, 50 km of which are not paved, where they met the beneficiaries and witnessed the deterioration of health services and the village's need for water and infrastructure for education and others.

The center will add value to the region's residents as it will include a new school and hospital instead of the old narrow and dilapidated buildings that were not well-equipped. Pregnant women living in that area may need to travel about 90 kilometers by car to get to the nearest hospital, which threatens their lives and their babies’ lives.  The artesian well shall be equipped with a water tank and solar-powered pump, and will provide a drinking water to thousands of thirsty people during summer.

The Janaba residents hold a reception ceremony for Qatar Charity and the Qatari volunteers involved in Competitors Program. This ceremony was attended by Mr. Mohammed AL Mustafa Wald Mohammed Qazi, the municipality mayor, who welcomed the guests in his opening speech, asserting the residents' urgent need for support as they are suffering bad health and educational circumstances. Qazi extended his sincere thanks to the people of Qatar for supporting their brothers in Mauritania and other Arab and Islamic countries.

In a speech on behalf of the delegation, Mr. Abdullah Nasser Abdullah Al-Tamimi said that the Qatari people, philanthropists, donors and Qatar Charity hope all the best for the Mauritanian people, and thank their warm reception.

The Next Visit

Mr. Ahmed Saleh Al Ali, the Director of QC Information Department assured that the visit realized its objectives and left a good impression on the members of Qatar University delegation that made an impressive field visits. The delegation will talk about these experiences in the "competitors" weekly live radio program that starts at eight o'clock on Tuesday evening. The program is transmitted over Al Quran Al Kareem Show. Al Ali pointed out that the rival Education City Team will visit Sri Lanka at the end of this month to get to know the place of its development project and will identify the beneficiaries' needs hoping that the listeners of Al Quran Al Kareem Radio would cooperate with the rival teams to support the charity work.

Adding Value

The Director of QC office in Mauritania, Mr. Idriss Al-Sahel received the delegation at QC office in Nouakchott and made a presentation about QC's accomplishments in Mauritania. He added that the Qatari philanthropists spent more than QR 25 million during the last year contributing to the water, health, education and social affairs projects. He mentioned that the number of sponsored people was doubled during the last two years to reach 3,000 sponsored individuals.

The delegation paid a visit to a number of QC's projects including the Deaf Rehabilitation and Education Center in Nouakchott, where 500 deaf people will benefit from the project. The delegation also visited a sewing center, which is sponsored by QC and supervised by its partner, the "Philanthropists without Borders" Association. This center provides job opportunities for poor widows and divorcees.

As part of “Competitors" Programme efforts sponsored by Qatar Charity in collaboration with Al Quran Al Kareem Radio, Collage of the North Atlantic- Qatar (CAN) team paid a field visit to Kyrgyzstan, to conduct a field study of the humanitarian situation there, to determine Humanitarian Projects that will meet the needs of Kyrgyz people to be implemented and widely promoted.   

The competing team chose to project of building a three-floor health center that is furnished and well-equipped. The health center was designed to provide medical consultations and services in dentistry, gynecology and obstetrics, internal medicine, the kidneys and urinary tract, otorhinolaryngology(ENT), Pediatrics, ophthalmology, cardiology, chest diseases, dermatologists, venereal diseases and orthopedics.

End of Suffering

The center will provide medical services to more than 5,000 patients annually, in Bishkek city whose inhabitants are suffering from a severe shortage in health services, causing the high mortality rate among the most vulnerable groups including children, pregnant women, and the elderly people who daily walk long distances to reach health centers.

The "competitors" team will talk in details about their visit to Kyrgyzstan, the humanitarian project that would be implemented, through the episode that will be broadcasted on Al Quran Al kareem radio at 8:00 pm on Tuesday.  In this regard, QC asks the Qatari philanthropists to listen to this episode to get acquainted with the humanitarian situation in Kyrgyzstan, and to contribute to building the integrated health center.

The participating team includes Abdullah Al Hammadi, Hassan Mohammed Hassan, Abdulaziz Riachy, Abdul Rahman al-Ashqar, QC's director of Information Department" Mr. Ahmed Al Ali", the two media personalities "Ahmed Aboulenein, Aqeel Al janahi", members of Al Quran Al Kareem Radio "Mr. Abdul Rahman Izzat , Tawfiq Osama, Nasser Atta", as well as Ahmed Salim, Social Media Officer at the Information Department and Ibrahim Al Ftian,  Coordination and Follow-up Officer at the Information Department.

Upon arrival to the capital of Kyrgyzstan, the delegation visited the Embassy of the State of Qatar, where His Excellency Ambassador Mohammed Arar Al Nuaimi received and welcomed the delegation assuring the importance of humanitarian work in addition to mutual cooperation to facilitate the task of the delegation.

Visits and Meetings

The delegation met the Minister of Health in Kyrgyzstan, to know the health and humanitarian services, and the possibilities of helping the Kyrgyz people, through establishing health centers that meets their medical care needs.

The delegation also met the Republic's General Mufti, the president of religious affairs and his deputy to discuss the conditions of Muslims in Kyrgyzstan.

Furthermore, the delegation inspected a number of Qatari projects that were implemented by Qatar Charity through a generous donation of philanthropists in Qatar who left a clear mark on charitable and humanitarian work in this republic

Innovation and Success

Al Ali thanked Al Quran Al kareem Radio, the team of College of the North Atlantic, and media personalities and appreciated the role played by the official authorities of Kyrgyzstan for the facilities provided during the delegation's visit. He also praised the role of the Qatari Embassy in Kyrgyzstan represented by Ambassador Mohamed Arar Al Nuaimi who make the delegation familiar with the state 

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• Alghatrifi: Without the support of people of Qatar, patients of Dar Alshafqa would become homeless.
• Director of QC office in Yemen: We hope that benefactors in Qatar continue their support to enable Dar Alshafqa complete its humanitarian mission.

Taking into account the conditions of patients and their companions, QC contributed through a charitable contribution from a benefactor of State of Qatar in supporting the operating budget of " Dar Alshafqa” as to take care of kidney failure patients and cancer in Yemen after they were leaving to nowhere as a result of support stoppage from the donors.

Qatar Charity (International Charity Organization) support contributed to reducing the suffering of kidney failure and cancer patients coming from the Yemeni provinces to Sanaa, where Dar Alshafqa provides them with food and transportation to and from hospitals.

Patients’ displacement

Dar Alshafqa was founded in 2008 and it has served about 3000 patients during the past period, providing them with adequate shelters, food, and transportation to hospitals for treatment. Yet, the situation has worsened after the recent crisis in Yemen many people were displaced from their provinces  and dozens of patients came to Dar Alshafqa which already suffers from a significant shortfall to accommodate the growing number of patients.

Saving dozens of patients         

Mansour Alghatrifi, Director of Dar Alshafqa, said that the support of the people of Qatar through QC has provided part of the operational budget which contributed to saving dozens of homeless patients. Alghatrifi stressed that QC support enabled them to continue to provide health and nutrition services to hundreds of patients despite the urgent need to more support due to increasing number of patients who were displaced from different regions because of the difficult situation in Yemen.

Alghatrifi called upon humanitarian institutions to provide more support and help to Dar Alshafqa to develop and expand its activities, stressing on his great confidence of QC and Qatari benefactors who always provide much more support to the Yemeni people.

Support of benefactors

Mr. Nasr Qayid Alzzaeim, Director of Qatar Charity office in Yemen, said that QC has launched this humanitarian initiative to promote its humanitarian efforts in Yemen, providing everything that would help the Yemeni people to overcome this difficult situation. It was unreasonable to leave hundreds of patients who suffer from incurable disease, so we contributed to help and support Dar Alshafqa, hoping that benefactors in Qatar will continue their support.

Alzzaeim pointed out that QC is aware of health and humanitarian problems resulting from the crisis in Yemen, stressing that QC will do its best to support Dar Alshafqa and provide medicine, food and clothes to the patients.

The operational budget of Dar Alshafqa is QR 470,000 annually, in addition to food expenses, QR 220,000, and other expenses, including helping patients in their treatment and transportation.

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