Qatar Charity launches distance-teaching and

QC held an event to honor its

High achieving orphan students gathered with their families and teaching stuff to celebrate success and to received awards at a special ceremony held by Qatar Charity in Kenya. This tradition has been always a prominent aspect of Qatar Charity’s sponsorship strategy to encourage brilliant orphans for their academic achievements.

Acknowledging their efforts raising these orphans, Qatar Charity also awarded the mothers for their continuous support to their kids despite their bad economic situations.
Celebrating orphans’ success, Qatar Charity has awarded 100 orphans along with their mothers for the academic year 2016-2017

On this occasion, Mr. Mohamed Hussein, Qatar Charity’s Regional director in Kenya, addressed the students and encouraged them to put more efforts to maintain this academic excellence. He also thanked and praised their mothers for the role they play supporting their children.

At the honorary reception, bright orphan students and their mothers received awards and excellence certificates for the academic year 2016-2017.

Thanks to Orphans’ Sponsors:

During the ceremony, Roqyaa Ibrahim Ismail, one of the awarded students, said “No words are enough to express how I feel. I would like to thank our sponsors in Qatar and praise their unwavering faith in our cause. I would also like to thank Qatar Charity for its pivotal role in promoting education and Sponsoring Orphans’ advocacy”

In parallel ceremony, Qatar Charity awarded 50 mothers, celebrating their dedication and hard work raising their orphan children. Mrs. Hawa Harbi, on behalf of the attending mothers, delivered a speech saying “We deem the Qatari people as brothers and sisters who spare no efforts in advocating our cause and standing for our children” Mrs. Harbi also praised Qatar Charity’s dedication and support in promoting educational projects in the regions of Kenya.

New Sponsorships in Somalia:

As part of its social care mission, Qatar Charity has recently sponsored 655 poor families, 165 Quran Teachers, 127 Persons with Special Needs. Therefore, the total number of Qatar Charity’s sponsorships in Somalia has reached 1500 individual.

Through sponsorships and contributions in Somalia, Qatar Charity works to fight the devastating drought that has engulfed the African countries over the past years.

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Qatar Charity organizes an open day for children with special needs

Qatar Charity (QC), in cooperation with the Qatar Society for Rehabilitation of Special Needs (QSRSN) and the Baraem TV Channel, has remotely organized an open day for children with special needs, in compliance with the precautionary measures related to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

Some 20 children with special needs along with their parents have taken part in the open day, which included many entertainment, creative, and competitive activities, as well as skills development workshops, in addition to some technical workshops on Hajj under the supervision of their parents at their homes.

On this occasion, Qatar Charity has presented educational gifts to children to improve their capabilities and benefit from them collectively with their families, aiming at strengthening family ties among them.

Besides, the Baraem TV Channel provided gifts that included sports clothes, notebooks, mugs bearing the channel's logo, and other items.

Jassim Al-Emadi, Director of the Local Development Department at Qatar Charity, said that the activities of the open day organized by Qatar Charity fall within its priorities given to the persons with special needs, as a societal duty and a development pillar.

He also pointed out that Qatar Charity, thought these activities, aims at bringing an opportunity to the children to learn about the values associated with Hajj in an enjoyable environment and to draw the attention of society to people with special needs in order to garner support for the projects and initiatives that benefit them.

Ilyazi Al-Kuwari, Deputy Director of QSRSN’s Social-Cultural Center, said the participation of society in the open day along with Qatar Charity contributed to supporting the rehabilitation of people with special needs and exhibiting the children’s creative skills.

The activities of the open day for children with special needs, which were prepared by Qatar Charity and presented by Baraem’s announcers Jehan Arsanios and Iman Bakhash received the admiration of the participants and their families.

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Qatar Charity’s distance-teach

Qatar Charity’s distance-teaching platform ‘Noon’ receives significant turnout

Some 43 students, including five persons with special needs, have joined the online course for the memorization of the Holy Quran, which is offered within the programs of ‘Noon’, a distance-teaching, training and empowering platform launched by Qatar Charity (QC) recently.

The qualified instructors teach the students the Holy Quran and the phonetic rules of Qur'anic recitation remotely through Microsoft Teams in view of the closure of the Holy Qur’an Memorization Centers due to the outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

The course offers individual and group classes, with eight classes per month, allowing direct interaction with the teachers. It is delivered from Saturday to Thursday in two shifts -- morning from 9am to 12pm, and evening from 4pm to 7pm.

Besides, the ‘Noon’ platform has offered remote training workshops to teach girls handcrafts, aiming at developing the crafting skills of the participants in their spare time of the summer vacation

Maryam Al-Abdullah, director of women’s branch of the Qatar Charity Center for Community Development in Al-Rayyan, indicated that the participants could add their own creative touches to their works during the training workshops.

The female supervisors of the training workshops follow up the artistic works and activities of girls through social media, providing them with the necessary instructions and recommendations.

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Qatar Charity launches capacit

Qatar Charity launches capacity development program ‘Tamken’

Qatar Charity (QC) launched “Tamken”, an integrated training program offered remotely via its social media accounts, to enhance the economic, social and psychological skills of individuals, under the auspices of Etlaqq Business Management and Bedaya Center.

The program targets male and female individuals with ideas and small projects, those in need of training to enter into the market, and persons with special needs, in addition to those affected by the coronavirus pandemic, and those willing to have a project that ensures a steady source of income for a more stable life.

Speaking at the press conference, Mr. Jassim Muhammad Al-Emadi, Director of the Local Development Department at Qatar Charity, said, “We, through the community programs, aim to hone the capabilities and energies of people to make them self-reliant, aiming at supporting the achievement of the Qatar National Vision 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nation”.

He added that the "Tamken" program aims to enable people to have opportunities that assure them of a stable life at all levels, noting that it is a multi-disciplinary project aimed at honing the necessary practical skills. He also indicated that the program will include people with special needs in the next stage, in cooperation with the concerned authorities and community partners.

He stated that Qatar Charity is keen to engage government and private sectors in economic empowerment projects in support of the community, as it aims to contribute to the achievement of the Qatar National Vision 2030, especially with regard to economic development.

On the sidelines of the press conference, Dr. Latifa Al-Darwish, CEO and co-founder of the Etlaqq Business Management, said, “The ‘Tamken’ program is a series of workshops that will contribute to transforming ideas of individuals into successful commercial projects that will add economic value to society.”

She also noted that the workshops would cover the field of marketing, visual identity and project management, based on the model adopted in the State of Qatar.

“We will work to help individuals who have ideas to introduce their products to the market and develop their projects,” said Mr. Abdullah Al-Saeed, a member of the Board of Directors and officer-in-charge of the Bedaya Center, “We are targeting nearly 30 people to participate in the first phase of the program.”

He also noted that in case of further demand for the program, other workshops would be organized, in cooperation with Qatar Charity in the future.

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Amid coronavirus surge, Qatar

Amid coronavirus surge, Qatar Charity’s distance-teaching platform achieved significant feats in 2020

Noon, a distance-teaching, training and empowering platform launched by Qatar Charity (QC) as a solution to limit the negative impact of the coronavirus, has managed to implement various training programs and workshops during 2020, targeting men, women, children, persons with
special needs, and volunteers. The platform has succeeded in achieving its intended goals, taking precautionary measures against the coronavirus.

Many educational programs and training workshops were held as part the Noon platform. As many as 85 students of different age groups took part in the Holy Quran Learning program, which received a good response from the participants. It was organized remotely in cooperation with qualified teachers, using modern technology and the Internet.

The ‘Al-Qaida Al-Noorania’ course, in which 39 students took part, contributed to improving their level of reading and writing in Arabic.

Besides, the ‘Noon’ platform offered remote training workshops for girls on handicrafts, aiming at developing the crafting skills of the participants during leisure time. Some 33 female students participated in these workshops.

Qatar Charity launched ‘Tamkeen’, an integrated training program offered remotely via its social media accounts, as part of the ‘Noon’ platform, to enhance the economic, social and psychological skills of participants.

The program included six different types of training workshops, and 45 persons, both male and female, took part in the workshops. The final projects included eight participations, of which four projects were qualified.

The ‘Noon’ platform also trained youth to improve their electronic skills and capabilities so that they can take advantage of the Internet to market projects and discover opportunities. Some 100 male and female participants benefited from the electronic skill development course.

Many students and their parents expressed their satisfaction with the training programs and workshops implemented within the framework of the Noon platform, noting that these workshops contributed to improving their level of reading and writing in Arabic, and enhancing their crafting skills.

Qatar Charity, through community development centers, seeks to target different sections of society, maximize the number of beneficiaries, and build community partnerships with new bodies that would provide outstanding services.

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Qatar Charity launches distance-teaching and training platform