Qatar Charity organizes charity bazaar for children

Qatar Charity (QC) organized a bazaar for children to support children's abilities in community entrepreneurship and contribute to donating and selling toys for the benefit of the ‘Khairuna Li Ahlina’ (Charity Starts at Home) campaign and its educational activities.  

The bazaar, organized by the Local Development Department of Qatar Charity at its women’s branches of community development centers in Al Rayyan and Al Khor, has witnessed a significant participation of children and their families.

The bazaar, in which 15 participants took part, aims to invite children to contribute to charitable projects by their own efforts, raise children's economic awareness and enable them to recycle, in addition to aiming at enhancing the value of the initiative to support charitable projects. The bazaar included a workshop that explained to them the importance of charitable work.

Through this bazaar, Qatar Charity seeks to direct charitable work and in-kind donations to the economic field, make children familiar with doing good, encourage them to participate in charitable activities, strengthen their sense of belonging to charity centers.

Qatar Charity, through this event, also seeks to involve children into charitable work, achieve community partnership with the families of the participants and support a local or international charity project.

Ms. Mariam Ateeq Al Abdullah, director of the Women’s Branch of Qatar Charity Center for Community Development in Al Rayyan, said, “The bazaar for children is a charitable event to instill the love of doing good in their hearts by involving them into the sale of their products and toys for charitable purpose.”

She also emphasized the importance of this event, as it encourage children to contribute to doing good at an early age, especially in Ramadan, pointing out that the community was in need for such social initiatives for children.

The young participants also expressed their happiness with taking part in the bazaar. Mariam Khalifa Al Ahmad, a fifth grade student at the Bayan Primary School, said she was very happy to participate in the event, which she considered an opportunity to contribute to helping others.