QC holds a health camp for its sponsored orphans in Pakistan. The camp provides medical examinations to check their well-being and activities to raise awareness about hygiene and environmental cleanliness.100 orphans benefited from the project.

The camp was organized by QC office in Islamabad, the capital,  in coordination with “Al-Islah Center” that takes in the orphans sponsored QC in Mardan City- Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province. The center is one of the 7 centers sponsored by QC in Pakistan to secure these orphans’ education, health, and behavior as well as to bring out and develop their talents and capabilities.

The medical examination was supervised by a medical team that consisted of 3 doctors (a pediatrician, a general physician, and an ENT specialist) and nurses. The team spent a whole day examining over 100 orphans for weight, blood pressure, respiration, sensitivity, and infectious and dermatologic diseases.The doctors also examined the orphans’ teeth, eyes, and joints and secured the necessary medications. The “Islah Center” was instructed to refer the ones with diseases that required external treatment to near dispensaries for follow-up.

Hygiene Bags

In addition to examination and treatment, the camp had activities for raising awareness. The doctors distributed leaflets that included general instructions about personal and general cleanliness within the shelter. They also stressed on the importance of taking maximum care of personal hygiene, using detergents, taking several showers every week, and exposing the mattresses to sufficient ventilation. The camp also distributed a hygiene bag to every orphan. Each bag contained soap bars, shampoo, a comb, a clipper, a towel, toothpaste, and a toothbrush.

At the end of the health camp, the director of “Al-Islah Orphans Center” thanked the administration of QC office in Pakistan and the administration of QC in the main office in Qatar for offering this medical examination to the sponsored orphans. He said that this came at the beginning of the winter which was usually accompanied by respiratory conditions. A few words were delivered to carry the sponsored orphans’ gratitude and prayers to their sponsors in Qatar.

It is worth mentioning that QC provides for 3,870 orphans in Pakistan and Kashmir, 1400 of which live in 7 shelters (internal departments) and 2,470 live with their own families.

This camp is one of a series of periodical educational, entertaining, and pedagogic activities that QC carries out for its sponsored orphans in the 7 shelters.

QC had previously organized an educational and entertainment day for 200 of its sponsored orphans in Dheerkot region in the province of Bagh – Kashmir State. Hygiene bags were distributed to them on the occasion of “Global Handwashing Day”. There were a number of chants, madihnabawi songs, and contests.

QC also held a big ceremony at the time of distributing sponsorship money from which 450 sponsored orphans in the capital of Kashmir, Muzaffarabad. The ceremony included various educational and entertainment activities and short plays that manifested the role of sponsors in raising the orphans and saving thousands of families. The roles were played by school children. In addition, different entertainment activities were held on the school yard by the orphans such as tug of war contests, colored balloons, a jump-rope game, and a musical chairs game.

It is worth mentioning that during the few first months of the current year, QC’s office in Pakistan built 18 mosques, dwelled 1,083 wells, and implemented 103 income-generating projects. It also built a multi-service compound, a shelter for the orphans, and a center for handicraft training.

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• Al-Fahida, “This certification reflects the credibility and transparency of QC’s work around the world. Our offices facilitate rapid intervention and allow continuous follow up with our development projects.”

The Pakistani Authorities granted QC a license to practice humanitarian work in the Pakistani territories. QC is, thus, one of the first 2 of 127 acting nongovernmental organizations who had applied for the license.

This was part of the Pakistani Authority’s attempt to organize the activities of civil society organizations on their land after they had banned all the memorandums related to licensing NGOs.

Professionalism and Transparency

Although the Pakistani Government allowed the NGOs to work until they were allowed to apply again to the authorities for licensing, it set a number of standards and mechanisms for field work in Pakistan. The 127 organizations applied for the license and the first two approved applications were QC’s and the Belgian Doctors without Borders’.

Mr. Faysal Al-Fahida, QC’s Director of Operation, thanked the Pakistani Authorities for trusting the Association. This proved –as he said- the credibility and transparency of QC’s work.

Al-Fahida added that QC conveys through its offices a message of hope to all the needy people around the world, regardless of their identity. QC –he said- would continue on the road that was built on professionalism and transparency.

Welcoming and Celebrating

The Pakistani Media –both English and Urdu- celebrated the news of approving QC and the Belgian Doctors Without Borders as the first of 127 NGOs who had applied for new Memorandums of Understanding. Pakistani Government had called off the work by previous memorandums since November 2013.

Many of those concerned with the humanitarian work in Pakistan praised the news via the media. They considered it important to commend QC and the way it conducted its work. QC’s office consequently received many calls of felicitations.

 Renewable Benevolentness

QC started its activity in Pakistan in 1992 as a local association. It works through 5 field offices in Sindh, Punjab, and Khyber. It also has representatives in Kashmir and Balochistan. Its activities include the fields of health, education, economic enabling, relief, water and sanitation, and crafts training centers. In the field of social care, QC sponsors more than 4,000 orphans, poor families, and students in the 21 districts of Pakistan’s four provinces –Punjab, Sindh, Balochistan, and Khyber- as well as Kashmir. QC’s office coordinates with 7 orphanages in Punjab and Khyber.

Pakistan’s office cooperates with local organizations to ease the sufferance of the neediest categories. It also coordinates with UNICEF to implement projects of water and sanitation, health facilities, awareness and suburban seminars, and to organize festivals on the occasion of “World Day of Clean Hands”. The festivals include distributing thousands of personal hygiene kits to school students in Rajunpur, Rahim Yar Khan, and Bannu districts. QC also works with UNICEF to construct facilities for the disabled and sewage networks for the displaced of Waziristan Region.

Spread Widely

Having 19 offices around the world, QC has the ability to rapidly intervene in case of catastrophes. This also enables it to observe its development and construction projects and supervise its sponsored orphans, students, needy families, and disabled persons.

QC’s offices are in: Sudan, Palestine, Mali, Mauritania, Somalia, Bosnia, Albania, Kosovo, Pakistan, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Niger, Yemen, Tunisia, Comoros, Kenya, Chad, and Djibouti. It is worth mentioning that QC’s operation department is planning to open new field offices in Morocco, Jordan, Turkey, Nepal, India, Sri Lanka, and Ghana.

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A delegation from UNISEF visited QC’s office in Pakistan to review the joint projects which are implemented for the benefit of the displaced people from North Waziristan Region, near the Afghan borders. The delegation consisted of 4 experts in the fields of water and health facilities.

Awareness Activities

In cooperation with UNISEF, QC is implementing several projects related to water, facilities at schools, and medical centers in Rajanpur and Rahim Yar Khan Districts.

In the meantime, QC’s office held a group of awareness activities which focused on the countryside. The activities included holding meetings with parents, teachers and students in order to emphasize the importance of using drinking water, having health facilities and sewage systems, and specifying certain places for garbage disposal. In addition, QC distributed to the audience bags which contained tools for personal hygiene.

Productive Categories

In 2015, QC drilled 1,500 wells in the 4 provinces of Pakistan: Khyber, Punjab, Sindh, and Baluchistan at a cost of 7,000,000 QR.

Many of these wills were equipped with water tanks, sinks for the housewives of the displaced families, and places for wudu (ablution).

In addition, QC’s office in Pakistan, in 2015, built 21 mosques in Kashmir and the rest of Pakistan’s provinces at a cost of more than 2,500,000 QR. It also built a multi-service complex and a training center at a cost of 2,200,000 QR; it implemented 110 economic empowerment projects for the benefit of the poor categories. The projects were intended to change the beneficiaries’ lives into something better. Instead of receiving aids, the beneficiaries would be able to make their own money thus become financially independent. The projects were implemented at a cost of 407,000 QR.

Mr. Faisal Al Fahida, QC’s Director of Operations, expressed his happiness for QC’s achievements in Pakistan, which have been helping the people and alleviating the sufferings of so many. “We have partnership and cooperation agreements with so many international humanitarian organizations - UNISEF placed on top. The message we convey through our main office and its branches in Pakistan is that we seek to spread hope and make all the needy people around the world happy,” said he.

Continuous Charity

QC started its work in Pakistan in 1992. It was then considered as a local society that had 5 field offices in Sindh, Punjab, and Khyber; it also had representatives in Kashmir, and Baluchistan. Its projects covered different fields such as health, education, economic empowerment, relief, water, and sanitation. QC also established centers for craft training and social care. It sponsors more than 4,000 orphans, poor families and students in 21 districts of the 4 provinces of Pakistan. In addition, QC’s office in Pakistan coordinates with 7 orphanages in Punjab and Khyber.

QC’s office there also coordinates with UNISEF so as to implement several projects in the fields of water, sanitation, health facilities, awareness, countryside seminars and others. They also coordinate to celebrate ‘International Clean Hands’ Day and to build sewage networks and facilities for persons with disabilities.

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