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.

World Day of Social Justice: Qatar Charity utilizes technology to bridge digital divide

World Day of Social Justice, which is observed every year on February 20, supports the efforts made by the international community to achieve sustainable development, eradicate poverty, promote employment and decent work, and provide universal social protection, gender equality, and social well-being.  The theme of World Day of Social Justice 2021 is "A Call for Social Justice in the Digital Economy"

“Over the past decade, expansion in broadband connectivity, cloud computing, and data has led to the proliferation of digital platforms, which have penetrated several sectors of the economy and societies. Since early 2020, the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic have led to remote working arrangements and allowed for the continuation of many business activities, further reinforcing the growth and impact of the digital economy”, according to the United Nations.

“The crisis has also laid bare and exacerbated the growing digital divide within, between and across developed and developing countries, particularly in terms of the availability, affordability, and use of information ICTs and access to the internet, deepening existing inequalities”, according to United Nations.

Marking World Day of Social Justice, Qatar Charity continues its efforts for social justice in various parts of the world and seeks to provide digital solutions to enable students, especially in crisis-hit places, to continue their education in order to build their future.

Qatar charity also seeks to provide training and empowerment opportunities through digital platforms and facilitate access to technology to develop the capabilities of youth. In crisis-hit areas, Qatar Charity has embarked on adopting digital solutions for humanitarian causes, including providing education to millions of refugee children and youth.

Qatar Charity contributed to the launch of the World Refugee School (WRS) initiative, in cooperation with its founding partners, to offer the best digital solutions to provide quality education for refugees and internally displaced people around the world and give internationally recognized certificates to students. The school is characterized by providing solutions to the crisis of interruption of education for 20 million children in conflict-affected areas.

Qatar Charity (QC) has launched ‘Noon’, a remotely teaching, training, and empowering platform, to meet the cultural, educational, and social needs of society in light of the coronavirus pandemic. The platform has managed to implement many programs and training workshops, reaching its intended objectives while taking precautionary measures against the coronavirus.

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. Some 45 persons took part in these workshops.

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

Qatar Charity organizes workshop on managing stress

Qatar Charity (QC), in cooperation with Moza bint Mohammed Preparatory School for Girls, organized a workshop remotely on managing stress and setting priorities.

The workshop was organized as part of Noon, a Qatar Charity’s platform to teach, train, and empower remotely, and attended by 70 participants, including the faculty, administrative staff and parents.

The workshop discussed the concept, types, and sources of stress, as well as work pressures in addition to the methods to release such pressures and feel happy.

During the workshop, Jawaher Al-Mana, instructor, said that psychological pressures are the difficulties that require a person to carry out tasks beyond his capacities, which causes distress and stress to the person. She emphasized that managing priorities and allocating part of the day to sharpen the energy will help in managing stress in life.

Al-Mana also mentioned the types of stress, which are economic, social and family pressures, as well as academic difficulties and emotional pressures of all kinds. She explained that stress sometimes generates a kind of violence and extremism, leads to isolation from life and reality, and affects dealing with others or building a relationship with them.

Al-Mana added that stress has many negative effects on the human being and negatively affects productive and creative work in life. She indicated that life changes in general, financial trouble, work and family problems are among the causes of stress, and that the work environment may generate pressure due to new tasks assigned to an employee, competition in the workplace, and backlogs.

Al-Mana advised that the person should not let others control his happiness, stay away from anyone coitizing him a lot, not focus on the things he does not have, and keep away from negative persons to feel happy.

Many participants expressed that they have benefited from the workshop that helped them know how to control stress and pressures.