Qatar Charity launches program for non-Arab

QC and Ibn Khaldoun School Hol

In cooperation with Ibn Khaldoun Preparatory School, QC’s Center for Society Development, Gharafa Al Rayyan branch, held an educational camp on World Mental Health Day for the center’s and some of the school’s students.

Throughout the camp, the students had the chance to participate in different athletic, cultural, educational, and entertaining activities. These activities were the practice of what they had already learned at the center.

Righteousness

Mr. Ashraf Al Arian, a Psychologist at Center of Consultation, delivered a lecture on the importance of keeping our mental health in good shape. He showed the students some presentations and films to elaborate his points.

Sheikh Othman Al Qaoud, the Preach of the Ministry of Endowment, delivered an educational lecture in which he spoke about the psychological issues from a religious point of view. He told the students how Islam took extra care of the soul and its righteousness and the students were very interactive with him.

Assessment of Achievement

Ali Al Gharib, QC’s Centers Director, said that through such camps, the students’ achievements can be assessed. It is the students’ attitude that shows how much the students had learned. The centers, as he mentioned, will continue to exert more efforts in order to best benefit the society.

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QC Signs a Cooperation Agreeme

According to the agreement, educational programs will be implemented under the title “Makarim – Kada – Al Murabi – Rihal” (Generous – Leaders – Teachers – Men) for a generation towards a better future.

Educational programs

Mr. Youssef bin Ahmed Al Kwairi, QC’s CEO, and Mr. Ghanim bin Sa’d Al Sa’d, Chief of the Board of Directors at Tarbeya Center, signed a cooperation agreement which states that both parties will work together to implement educational programs for the benefit of the school students.

These programs aim at preparing and educating a generation that will grow to build the future and take responsibility of education and the society.

Joint Efforts

Mr. Al Kuwairi said that this agreement reflects QC’s prioritization of the Qatari youth and its interest in bringing up a generation that can build a better future.

He also added that through this agreement, QC seeks to join its efforts with other parties in order to achieve the expected goals. QC and Al Tarbeya Center agreed to encourage the students and educate them on how to be responsible for the educational, social and cultural aspects of life.

He finally thanked all the workers at the center who never spare any effort to support humanitarian work and skill improvement. He also welcomed any cooperation with interested partners in serving the Qatari society.

Convenient Circumstances

For his part, Mr. bin Sa'd, commended QC's humanitarian and social role in a time when such work needs a lot of hard work and sacrifices for this field has grown to face several challenges and difficulties that increase every day.

He also highlighted the fact that this agreement is for the benefit of the most important category: the youth. They are the leaders of the future.

“This agreement essentially supports training, which is the most important part about the field of development. We aspire to achieve so many great things which represent the start of a series of accomplishments and agreements in different fields. The circumstances are currently very convenient. Everyone is helping! The country, the society, the youth; we are all in this together. All we have to do is to identify our goals and work together to achieve them,” said he.

Fruitful Agreements

QC has recently signed a number of cooperation and partnership agreements with Tomooh for Voluntary Work Management in order to offer a distinguished community work.

Furthermore, it has signed an agreement with Ajyal Training Center so as to organize different activities, events and programs to offer developmental and social services for the society. Together, they will hold training and educational courses. QC has also signed an agreement with Mental Health Friends Association through which the two parties can benefit from each other’s experiences and potentials in the field of serving people with special needs.

Finally, QC has signed cooperation and sponsorship agreements to implement educational programs and voluntary work initiatives with educational centers and some youth. These initiatives included ‘Salati’ (my prayer), ‘Al Majalis Madaris’ (sessions are like schools), and ‘Sohba’ (companionship) initiatives. QC has signed agreements with ‘Layan’ for the relief of Syrian refugees in Lebanon, E’dad Tarbawi Center (Educational Preparation) and Rowad center. These agreements include the implementation of developmental and cultural projects and programs in Qatar, relief and voluntary work campaigns outside Qatar.

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QC Implements Educational Proj

As part of 'Printing Curricula' Project, 2,264,500 books were printed from which 366,000 students in Syria benefited.

Al Ka'bi:

We thank Qatar's philanthropists for supporting the educational projects in Syria
As millions of Syrian children are homeless, QC found it necessary to improve their educational system so as to help them enjoy the international right of learning.

QC implemented 3 educational projects in coordination with the Syrian Education Commission ('elm) as part of QC's initiatives to reduce the damage that happened to the educational sector in Syria. The initiatives included printing books and curricula, providing educational supplies, qualifying and supporting teachers, and improving schools in Syria.

Hundreds of thousands of Syrian students benefited from the projects, whether the refugees or the displaced. The projects were implemented upon the agreements signed on the sideline of 'elm First International Conference: Syria and Education – Reality and Challenges which was held in Turkey. The conference was funded by QC and organized by Syrian Education Commission (a civic organization specialized in the educational process; it covers several schools, institutions and educational groups that serve Syrian students including the displaced Syrians and refugees).

Mr. Mohammed Rashid Al Ka'bi, QC's CEO at Relief Department, said, " As millions of Syrian children are homeless, QC found it necessary to improve their educational system so as to help them enjoy the international right of learning. "QC always seeks to alleviate the Syrians' sufferings in general, and the education-related sufferings in particular. Millions of Syrians students are deprived from their right to learn because of displacement issues.

Thanking Donors

Mr. Al Ka'bi thanked Qatar philanthropists for the donations they offer and their support to QC's campaigns which are meant for the relief of the Syrians. "I hope this support continues. QC's projects for Syrians inside and out are still in progress and they will not stop. We pray Allah would reward all the philanthropists and good doers," he said.

Printing the Curricula

The first project is mainly about securing the relief supplies needed at the Syrian schools in Syria such as supplying them with scientific school books: Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Sciences.

The project aims at printing and distributing reviewed curricula in order to advance the educational sector in Syria. Furthermore, it is meant to alleviate the sufferings of the Syrian students and their families, and to look after a whole generation and save them from going astray.

It covered printing 2,264,500 books from which 366,000 students benefited in Syria and Turkey. The books vary to include all school levels and the different specialties. They were done in accordance with the Syrian curricula before the crisis took place.

Sheikha Hissa bint Khalifa Al Thani, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General of the League of Arab States for Humanitarian Relief, attended the inauguration of the school books distribution to the Syrian displaced students and refugees.

The distribution is a part of a comprehensive plan designed to start the educational system once again after it had stopped for 3 years.

Rehabilitating Schools

The second project is about supporting and equipping schools with educational tools so as to operate them and continue the educational process among the Syrian schools in Turkey.

The beneficiaries included the Syrian students from different educational levels (primary, preparatory and secondary schools). It was implemented at a cost of 750,000 QR.

The project aims at supporting damaged schools by offering scholarships and salaries for the teaching and administrative staff members for the year 2014-2015. In addition, the project is to secure educational tools for the schools and maintain them as needed.

Restoring Schools

The third project is about restoring and maintaining destroyed schools in Idlib and Lattakia in order to make sure the educational process continues. It is also meant to create better conditions to prevent literacy, to activate schools as effective educational institutions and to bring life to the educational system which has been suffering a lot.

Implemented at around 1,500,000 QR, the project targets Syrian students who lost their schools because of the ongoing crisis; mainly in Idlib and its countryside and Lattakia's countryside.

Other Projects

QC continues to offer 50,000 daily meals from the kitchen of Kilis' area, near the Syria-Turkey border. In cooperation with IHH, QC also distributes 120,000 loaves of bread from 'Kilis' Bakery to the Syrian refugees stuck there. The number of refugees is continuously increasing there because of the change in climate that hit the region.

QC had already launched its campaign 'Syria, an Endless Winter' in Reyhanlı. QC inaugurated that campaign to provide heating tools and supplies necessary for the displaced Syrians in Syria and refugees in the south of Turkey. The first batch of the campaign included more than 250,000 pieces from which around 508,000 people benefite

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QC Prepares for the Launch of

QC finished filming the third edition of its reality TV show 'One Heart' near the Turkey-Syria borders. Several famous people were in the show such as Dr. Salman Al Ouda and a group of media, dawa and sports stars from Qatar, the Gulf and the Arab World. The show will be displayed during the coming Ramadan 1437 AH.

"One Heart" TV show aims at introducing the humanitarian issues to the public, and attracting support in a spiritual and exciting manner. It will include lots of adventures and surprises. It also presents solutions in a creative way.

Awen Initiative

This year, the program focused on the sufferings of the Syrian refugees, considering their issue the greatest of all disasters around the world. The members visited the refugees' camps near the Turkey-Syria borders in multiple areas of Ghazi, Gaziantep, Antakya, Kilis and others. In cooperation and coordination with the regional partners of QC there, the teams paid multiple visits to QC's projects in Turkey which target this group of people.

The program also sought to show Turkey's huge role, as a country and people, in taking care of and sheltering the Syrian refugees. Turkey offered them relief aids, medications and free education. It also established camps for them. Turkey is considered the country with the biggest number of Syrian refugees; i.e. an average of more than 3,000,000 refugees found across the different Turkish cities and territories.

During the show, Dr. Al Ouda and the participants spoke about Awen Initiative for the Empowerment and Development of Syrian Refugees which was recently released by QC. They clarified the different aspects of this initiative; especially relating to improving charity work and moving it from relief aids stage to become sustainable development. It aims at improving the Syrians' capabilities and training them so as to work and become financially independent. This way, a healthy society would be built, clear of any social diseases which had broken many societies apart.

The activities which showed the great efforts of the participating teams were related to displaying the success stories of the Syrian refugees in Turkey. Some of them became merchants, others became employees; some others worked in agriculture, raising cattle and other arts and crafts.

The Three Teams

In addition to Sheikh Salman Ouda, the number of participants reached around 15 figures divided into 3 teams. The first is: 'Al Karama (White) Team' and consists of Uqeil Jinahi, a Journalist; Firas AlKhatib, International Football Player; Mohammed Abbas, Munshid; Mohammed Al Barak, Quran Reciter; and Siwar Al Thahab, Sports Commentator.

The second team is 'Al Nakhwa (Green) Team': Sheikh Khaled Abu Mooza, a Journalist, Preacher and a Businessman; Yehya Hawa, a Munshid; Ali Al Ghatayen, a Poet; Nasser Al Weiber, a Poet; and Mohammed Sa'don Al Kuwairi, QC's Ambassador and a Journalist.

The third team is 'Al Himma (Blue) Team': Nasser Al Khalifi, a Journalist; Ibrahim Al Naqib, a Munshid; Sabbah Al Kuwairi, a Journalist; Nayef Al Sharhan, a Munshid; and Adel Lami, an International Football Player.

The Earlier Seasons

"One Heart 3" is distinguished with the variety of activities it presents. The 3 teams met with orphans, people with disabilities, widows, elderly and tens of other humanitarian cases. They were interested in educational, health, shelter, economic empowerment, social care and income-generating projects implemented specially for the refugees.

Through the show, invitations will be sent for participation and donations through QC's channels such as its hotline, text messages, websites and QC's bank account which will be later on announced (after receiving the necessary licenses).

The second season of One Heart was filmed in Sudan; while the first was filmed in Socotra the year before that.

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Qatar Charity Launches the Thi

Qatar Charity has launched the third round of "Competitors" weekly radio program, which is produced in partnership with Qatar Holy Quran Radio and the participation of universities, colleges and academies students in Qatar. Aljazeera Café in the Cultural District “Katara” hosted the celebration to announce the beginning of the third round of the competition between Aspire Academy Team and the Leaders Academy Team. Moreover, both the Community College Team and the College of the North Atlantic Team, who competed in the second round, and succeeded in building three schools for Syrian refugees in Lebanon, and 9 hospitals and health facilities in Kyrgyzstan, were also honored during the ceremony.

Mr. Nayef Al-Shammari, Head of Leaders Academy Team, said that they decided to participate in the third round of Competitors Program sponsored by Qatar Charity (International Charity Organization) after making sure of the nobility of the competition’s goal, noting that the Leaders Academy Team came to compete in the competition relying on the confidence of participating students.

Excellent experience and skill

Dr. Ali Ayoub, Head of Aspire Academy Team, said that Aspire Academy students are pioneers in leadership field as they learnt a lot from the true Islamic values and the Aspire Academy values which are based on respect and responsibility. Competitors Program will constitute an incentive to our students whom we expect to win in the competition due to their excellent experience and skill.

Enriching experience

On the occasion of winning the first place, Mr. Munadi Alka’bi, Head of Community College Team, said that the most important thing achieved by the team is participating in the charity work field. Alka’bi pointed out that winning the first place is not as important as providing education to 1500 students of our Syrian brothers through building three schools in Lebanon. That is the true winning!

Alka’bi added that participation in this competition had a good impact on the team and added a lot to their knowledge.

Distinguishing mark

Mr. Abdul Rahman Saleh Alashqar, Head of the College team of the North Atlantic, congratulated the winning team, pointing out that the College team of the North Atlantic fought in a fair competition with a noble goal. Although it came in the second place but still achieved the desired goal including marketing for building seven hospitals in Kyrgyzstan, which became nine hospitals later, thanks to the great efforts of the team. We left a distinguished mark, which could be seen through the broad smiles on the children’s and adults’ faces.

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Qatar Charity’s Ramadan Campai

Executive Director of Local Development assured, “More than 2 million people will benefit from our ramadan projects in 1438H, at a cost of about QR 31 million.”

Qatar Charity (QC) has launched its campaign for this year’s Ramadan season entitled “Give and Shine Through”. The estimated total cost for projects to be implemented inside and outside Qatar, during the Holy Month of Ramadan 1438H, is QR 31 million, and the number of beneficiaries is expected to reach over 2 million people.

QC held a press conference at Al Jazeera Cafe in the cultural district of Katara to announce launching the campaign. It was run by Mr. Ahmed Al Ali, Director of the Media Department at QC, who started by giving thanks to the social networks and the media for supporting QC’s projects and campaigns. Also, the Executive Director of Local Development at QC and the Chairman of the Ramadan Projects Committee, Ali Atiq al-Abdullah, and a number of directors of various departments in QC have participated in the press conference.

The campaign includes three main projects: Iftar meals, Eid clothing and Zakat al-Fitr, as well as a range of public and religious projects in Qatar, and media programs broadcast through the media and social networks.

The estimated cost of projects outside Qatar is about QR 15 million and is expected to benefit more than 1.1 million people. similarly, the estimated budget for Ramadan projects in Qatar is about QR 16 million, benefiting more than 900,000 people.

Congratulation

Ali Atiq al-Abdullah, on behalf of QC, congratulated the people of Qatar and the Arab and Islamic nations, praying for having a good and rewarding Ramadan and reminding them not to forget their brethren with need. He also stimulated them to help people in this month with their generosity and giving, based on the words of the Almighty, “And if any one saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of the whole people.”

Giving a hand

He urged benefactors and donors to lend their brothers a helping hand by donating to Qatar relief and development projects inside and outside Qatar, such as relief to the Syrian people, orphans and Needy Families Sponsorship, educational and health projects and income-generating projects so as to support the beneficiaries.

Internal projects

QC's projects in Qatar include a wide variety of Ramadan Iftar projects, and watering, and they extend to popular and cultural programs and challenging projects that allow for competition among the youth volunteer teams in cooperation and partnership with a number of related parties. Some of which are being implemented for the first time, while others have been developed. The most important of these projects are:

Fast Breaking Dinners

The number of fasting meals held or supported by QC is 23 group tables. They are distributed throughout the country for the sake of single workers, wayfarers, and low-income individuals. QC has fully taken the responsibility for completely offering 20 tables, and helping to provide 3 other tables. It is expected that 170,670 people will benefit from these dining tables, at a cost of about QR 5.5 million.

The targeted areas of iftar include Al Khor, Smeisma, Khareteyat, Gharafa, Rayan, Shahaneya, Wakrah, Bin Mahmoud, Freij Abdul Azeez, Najma, Mansoura, Bit Omran, Matar, Seleya, Jmeileya, Um Salal Muhammed, Al Ruwais, and Al Kaaban.

There are some projects that go under the Iftar project. The most important of which are:

From Home to Home

A project that enables Qatari families to prepare Iftar meals for families with limited income to reach their homes. They will be about 9000 meals throughout the holy month.

Farms Workers Iftar

The farms workers gatherings are targeted in six regions of the country and breakfast meals will be served for 600 workers per day, bringing the total number of beneficiaries to 18,000.

Doha Industrial Area’s workers Iftar

The project focuses on the workers' gatherings in the industrial area, through dedicated cars to daily distribute breakfast meals. The project is expected to benefit 12,000 workers during Ramadan.

Ramadan Food Baskets

The project provides supply requirements of Ramadan for limited-income families through coupons distributed by QC or the referees. Supplies are received from the shopping malls at the beginning of Ramadan, targeting 1500 families.

Mobile Iftar

Targeting 15,000 fasting people, it provides light Iftar meals prepared by Qatari families who are in easy circumstances. The meals are distributed to motorists who hear sunset call to prayer before arriving at their homes.

SoQya, Providing Water to Prayers

The project daily distributes water to the prayers during Taraweeh and voluntary night prayer in 43 mosques. It targets more than 8064 worshipers, bringing the number of targeted throughout the holy month to 242.000 people.

Public and Cultural projects

Youth entrepreneurship competition "Entrepreneurship"

The idea is to encourage youth to compete in order to organize entrepreneurship activities to serve the community, and support Ramadan projects and external humanitarian projects, in cooperation with one of university student clubs and community development centers in QC, and then choose the best initiatives and honor who launch them.

Al- Baraha Programme for Communities

A public program that includes Iftar meals and a number of entertainment and awareness events for fostering values. It revolves around the children of communities living in Qatar and is expected to benefit 10,000 people in more than one community.

A Dialogue with Influential Figures in Ramadan

A weekly meeting in Katara throughout Ramadan, hosting a personality of intellectuals and writers, to discuss a cause of concern to the community with them, and seek to provide them solutions.

Believers

An activity held helping the community members to getused to adhere to the Prophetic Sunnah and good behaviors such as: visit the sick people, attend the funerals and feed the poor.

Cohabitation

A targeted activity for non-Muslim foreign people to familiarize them with the customs and traditions of Qatari society by organizing a day of cooperation with Muslims and engaging them in voluntary activities such as Iftar meals and visiting the gatherings.

Orphans' Gifts (Eideyas)

A celebration in which Eideya (an amount of money which is given in Eid) are distributed to orphans before Eid al-Fitr. In this regard, QC urges the public to donate money in order to put a smile on the faces of this group.

Projects outside Qatar

QC carries out its Ramadan projects in 37 countries around the world. These projects are divided into three main projects: Ramadan, Eid, and Zakat Al Fitr, with a value of about QR 15 million. More than 1.1 million people are expected to benefit from it, with a focus on countries which suffer from crises and disasters.

Iftar

The Iftar project is the largest of Ramadan projects, with a value of QR 10,031,451. It is expected that 952,889 people will benefit from the project, of which around QR 1.5 million will be allocated to the displaced and Syrian refugees. Besides, the allocations of Yemen, Somalia, Palestine, and Iraq are increased in these projects.

The target countries include: Bangladesh, Benin, Chad, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Jordan, Kenya, Pakistan, Senegal, Sudan, Sudan, Burkina Faso, Mali, Nigeria, Iraq, Togo, United Kingdom, Lebanon, Morocco, Philippines, Bosnia, Kyrgyzstan, Tunisia, Kosovo, Albania and Turkey.

In addition, food has been allocated to affected people in Syria and Somalia (flour, bread, food baskets) worth more than QR 3.2 million, and is expected to benefit about 100,000 people.

Eid clothing

Benefiting 3786 orphans in 21 countries, Eid clothing project aims at gladdening the orphans sponsored by QC through offering them clothes before Eid al-Fitr, at an estimated cost of QR 378,600.

Zakat al-Fitr

QC is implementing this project, targeting 82,830 people in 33 countries across the world at an estimated cost of QR 1,242,457 in order to spread the joy among Muslims on the day of Eid al-Fitr, and to avail the needy.

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Qatar Charity launches program for non-Arab communities