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Qatar Charity Supports Al Aqsa

In cooperation with the Ministry of Health, Qatar Charity has opened the CT department at Al-Aqsa Hospital in Gaza and restored its diagnosis department to provide excellent medical services to 300,000 people in the central area in the Gaza Strip.

This is a part of "Providing medicines and medical and laboratory supplies to the Palestinian Ministry of Health” project funded by QC at a cost of more than 25 million QR, aiming at restoring Al-Aqsa Hospital to bring it back into perfect use, providing it with the necessary equipment, in addition to alleviating the pain and suffering of the patients and the overcrowded hospitals in Gaza.

Humane Allusion

Dr. Mahmoud Abu Khalifa, Director of the Sponsorship Program at the Qatar Charity Office in the Gaza Strip, said that what QC has done to help the Al-Aqsa Hospital and rehabilitate a full section of it is such a great humanitarian evidence and support for the health sector in the Gaza Strip. Besides, he pointed out that the reason behind implementing this project is the responsibility for the sick and injured, especially residents of the Central Governorate who have suffered from the lack of advanced diagnostic services, which increased their suffering and endangered their lives, particularly at the times of wars and crises.

Abu Khalifa assured that QC's humanitarian mission is to aid the most needy social groups in accordance with the principles of human dignity and social justice. Accordingly, they have been keen to pay particular attention to the needs of patients in areas where there is a lack of Health Services.

Full Support

He stressed that QC never slacks on giving Palestinians a helping hand. That is to say, he referred to their several achievements in many sectors through QC’s programs, especially those related to the reconstruction program through the Islamic Development Bank. These sectors included health, education and economic empowerment, water and sanitation; agriculture and industry; housing construction, schools, mosques and cultural centers.

Moreover, he mentioned that QC is about to offer Al-Aqsa Hospital a new X ray device, within a project which supplies it with many medical devices and spare parts for the broken devices in the Ministry of Health’s hospitals.

Beneficent Hands

Bassem Naeem, Head of the Health and Environment Sector in the Gaza Strip, expressed his appreciation of QC's achievements in supporting the health sector and thanked the generous hands in Qatar who have been supporting the implementation and financing of the projects that have been a distinct addition to health work, wishing that the good people in Qatar will continue to support such projects in various health fields.

Typical Leap

Director of Al-Aqsa Hospital, Kamal Khattab, praised the efforts exerted by QC and the Qatari generous benefactors, stressing that the CT scan is a quantum leap for the hospital, which serves a large segment of the people of the central Governorate.

"We are grateful to QC for carrying out the projects that support the health sector, especially those that benefited Al-Aqsa Hospital," Khattab stated. He also hopes they provide more support to serve the sick and the injured groups, in light of the government's deficit in the full coverage of health services due to the lack of potential.

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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 starts operating

Qatar Charity has started operating Sheikha Aisha bint Hamad bin Abdullah Al-Attiyah Model Orphans City, in Al Damar in the River Nile State of northern Sudan. Picture on the left shows Sheikh Thani bin Hamad al-Thani and other Qatari and Sudanese officials looking at a scale model of the Orphans City. The charity has started distributing houses to families that were selected according to specific criteria. It is also operating educational and health facilities in the city in co-ordination with the ministry of social affairs, the ministry of health and the ministry of education of the River Nile State. The Director of Qatar Charity Office in Sudan, Hussein Kermash, said that the beneficiary families have started moving to the city. The occupancy rate of the city’s houses has reached more than 90% so far. He added that the city’s markets are providing all the basic needs to its inhabitants. More than 400 students have been enrolled into the primary and secondary schools as well as kindergartens. An integrated health centre provides the necessary service for the city’s residents. The Sheikha Aisha bint Hamad bin Abdullah Al-Attiyah Model Orphans City (Pictured right) has been built on an area of 200,000 sq m in Al Damar at a cost of $12mn. The city was officially opened in April.

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Qatar Charity opens a dispensa

Qatar Charity’s (QC) office in Somalia, in cooperation with the Benadir Regional Administration (BRA), opened a dispensary in Wadjer, an impoverished neighborhood in Mogadishu and 93,000 needy people are expected to benefit from the health services of the dispensary.

The dispensary has been built in this neighborhood, where most of people are poor, suffering from the lack of basic health services, as they are not able to afford the costs of the private hospitals.

The dispensary spreads over 300 square meters and is expected to provide the required health services to people, mostly children, women and elderly.

The opening ceremony was attended by a number of Somali ministers and local figures, including Abdurahman Yarisow, Governor and Mayor of Mogadishu, who loaded the Qatari donations that contribute to helping the needy in Mogadishu and other Somali areas and providing humanitarian services to them.

The ceremony was also attended by H.E Osman Mohamed Abdi (Dalo), Deputy minister of ports and marine resources, who noted the importance of the development and relief projects implemented by Qatar Charity for the benefit of the Somali people.

In February, QC’s office in Somalia handed over three ambulances to hospitals in Mogadishu to support the country's health services. The ambulances have been provided at a time when many hospitals in Somalia were suffering from a severe shortage in the patient transport services, especially for urgent cases, as many vehicles were not designed to provide first aid, which had maximized the risk to the lives of many patients.

In March, Qatar Charity interacted with the operation of mobile health clinics in Somalia, especially in the southern provinces, which are still ongoing in the field.

Medical convoys provide primary health services to the displaced and the poor, especially mothers and children under the age of five. So far, around 27,300 people have benefited from this project.

At the end of last year, QC’s office in Somalia handed over medicines and medical supplies to the Mogadishu City Hospital as part of the Emergency Relief Projects for the victims of the bombing to minimize the serious impact of the accident.

As Somalia was facing a worsening humanitarian situation, at the beginning of 2017, due to the drought, which caused an increase in the number of displaced persons from 1.1 million to 2.1 million in a few months, Qatar Charity launched a relief intervention for the displaced in the camps. The number of beneficiaries reached more than 27,975 persons in 6 provinces of Somalia through the operation of 15 medical convoys.

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Two million people benefit fro

Qatar Charity provides the opportunity for the generous donors to fund other projects through the “Gaza the Right to Live” campaign.

Qatar Charity’s (QC) office in Gaza has implemented 15 Health Projects in the Gaza Strip during the period 2008-2018 at a cost of QR66mn, which benefited around two million people.

These health projects were carried out with the support from the people in Qatar in cooperation with QC’s various partners, aiming to support the health sector of Gaza, as it is suffering from the deteriorating situation and a severe shortage of medicines and medical supplies, especially in times of emergency.

Poor Patient Project

The ‘Poor Patient Project’ is one of QC’s significant health projects, through which the charity contributed to covering the operation costs of 1,155 poor patients who were in need of emergency surgery. The project also contributed to the payment for some urgent therapeutic drugs and tests, which were not available at the UNRWA hospitals or clinics. The project amounted to a total of QR 350,000.

Another project has also been implemented at a cost of over QR7mn for civilians wounded because of the attacks on the Gaza Strip. The project included the provision of medicines, medical consumables and laboratory materials to the hospitals and primary health care centers of the Gaza Strip.

The project also included the provision of a CT scan machine, office equipment, office furniture to the Diagnostic Radiology Department at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the central governorate of the Gaza Strip.

Furthermore, the Harmonic Scalpel, a surgical instrument, has been provided, as part of this project, to the Indonesian hospital in the Gaza Strip. The instrument contributed to offering better services and developing surgical services at the hospital

Medical Equipment and Instruments

Qatar Charity also has implemented a project to support the health services in the Gaza Strip by providing medicines, medical consumables and laboratory materials to the hospitals of the Ministry of Health. This project also included the provision of the medical equipment and instruments to the rehabilitation service providers in the private sector in favor of the wounded and people with special needs. Also, through this project, medical equipment and instruments and electric chairs have been given to the wounded and people with special needs, focusing on people with motor disabilities. The cost of the project is more than QR 12mn.

Patients with Renal Failure

Moreover, a project was implemented to provide the hospitals with electromechanical equipment and systems at a cost of QR7mn, with the aim of providing good health services within the Gaza Strip. An alternative power source was also provided as part of this project, which included the use of new systems to mitigate the bad effects during the process of disposal of medical waste in Gaza, as well as the provision of a safe healthy environment within hospitals.

Qatar Charity also carried out a project to provide transportation for the treatment of patients with renal failure at an estimated cost of over QR 131,000

Humanitarian Indicators

According to international statistics, there is still a need to implement more health projects in the Gaza Strip, as it suffers from the shortage of medicines by 45 percent, and there is a severe shortage in laboratory supplies by 58 percent as well as some 4,800 patients in Gaza need daily access to life-saving health services for their survival. Also, the fuel is not sufficient for more than a month to run generators that provide electricity to hospitals in Gaza.

As the “Gaza the Right to Live” campaign continues, Qatar Charity urges good doers to actively participate in supporting QC’s projects and its humanitarian and development efforts to ease the hardship of the people in Gaza and meet their various basic needs.

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900,000 coronavirus-hit Yemeni

900,000 coronavirus-hit Yemenis to benefit from Qatar Charity’s health aid

Qatar Charity (QC) has provided fresh QR1mn health assistance for quarantine centers in many Yemeni cities to benefit 900,000 persons in the country.

The aid comes as part of Qatar Charity’s continued global efforts to curb the outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic by supporting many countries in several sectors, especially health.

The assistance includes equipment and devices needed to treat those infected with the coronavirus, in addition to installing sterilization devices as a precautionary measure to prevent the infection with COVID-19.

Qatar Charity seeks to reduce the spread of the coronavirus in Yemen by contributing to the efforts made by society to save the lives of the infected with the virus and the vulnerable to it, and mitigate the effects of poverty on Yemenis.

The areas, which were targeted, suffer from deteriorating health services and the rising number of deaths and infections with COVID-19, which is expected to spread more in other cities due to the high population density. Yemen also goes through a lack of financial resources, support, and medical supplies, whose prices are very high.

Qatar Charity has earlier provided medical devices and equipment, sanitizers, disinfection and cleaning materials, preventive materials, masks, oxygen cylinders, medical ventilators, and other items to combat the coronavirus in Yemen, benefiting 150,000 people. During the past years, Qatar Charity has also implemented several health projects in many governorates of Yemen.

In support of the fight against COVID-19, Qatar Charity has already provided medical and food aid as well as other assistance to many countries, including Yemen, Lebanon, Tunisia, Palestine, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sudan, Kyrgyzstan, Mali, Chad and Kenya.

Qatar Charity has also signed several cooperation agreements with UN agencies such as UNICEF, and OCHA to maximize the number of beneficiaries hit by the pandemic.

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Qatar Charity’s clinic brings about change in beneficiaries’ lives in Somalia