Through its office in Gaza and as part of its Al-Shifa’ project, QC expanded Al-Daraj Health Center. The project aims at establishing a health center which curbs the scourge of contagious and epidemic diseases, offering basic health services to the needy categories, and raising health awareness. 

Raising Competency

QC financed the project at a cost of 500,000 QR as part of its efforts to help the Palestinians and to alleviate their sufferings due to the occupations’ practices. The project included building an upper floor with an area of 350 m² added to the Health Center building, and providing all the necessary construction supplies. This is to serve the health sector in general, and to increase the number of beneficiaries in particular.

Engineer Mohammed Abu Halloub, QC’s Office Director in the Gaza Strip, pointed out that this project is to serve the health sector in the Strip and to raise the competency of the health centers, which are built on small areas and are short in supplies.

Abu Halloub added that the project encountered a number of challenges; the most significant were the closure of borders and the imposed siege on the Strip. They prevented entering the necessary raw materials to finish the project. In addition, the construction and architectural plans needed to be modified to fit the center’s conditions in coordination with the health sector’s administration.

Abu Halloub also stated that with all of the hindering obstacles, QC insisted on implementing this project so that the largest number of people would benefit from it, and it would better prepare the Strip’s health sector. Furthermore, under its emergency intervention program to aid the injured in the last aggression on Gaza (summer 2014), QC is still working on importing medication to the Strip even though it’s under siege. QC is also preparing to build an internal medicine hospital in Al-Shifa’ Complex in Gaza at a cost of 582,000 QR.

Severe Crisis

This project was implemented because of the severe crisis which the Strip is suffering from in the health sector. There are shortages in drugs and medical disposables in different hospitals in the strip. This resulted in reducing the services offered to the citizens.

Some doctors closed their clinics in the north, middle and south of the Strip; even the only birthing center in the north of the Strip was closed, too; all due to the severe crisis from which the Strip suffers because of the shortage in drugs, medical disposables and money. This is a clear warning that the health sector will fall apart.

Furthermore, QC has also implemented projects in which it equipped the hospitals with electro-mechanic devices, supplied them with generators, added and replaced elevators to different hospitals, and rehabilitated the sterilization systems and mechanical ventilation at a cost of more than 10,000,000 QR.

Previous Efforts

QC has already inaugurated a relief campaign “Hand in Hand We Build Palestine” to help reconstruct Gaza. This campaign includes financing and implementing constructional projects for shelter, education, health, and economic empowerment

After all the destruction and wreckage the last aggression on the Strip caused, QC’s campaign ‘Hand in Hand We Build Palestine’ stands as one of QC’s efforts to rebuild Gaza. More than 2,000 people were martyred during the aggression, 11,200 were injured, and thousands of families, whose houses were demolished, were displaced. Furthermore, many infrastructure facilities such as roads, hospitals, schools, and factories were destroyed.

The last brutal attack on the Gaza Strip caused the loss of so many people, houses, and facilities. 2,139 were martyred: 579 of them were children, 263 of them were women, and 102 were elders. 11,200 people were injured: 25% of them became handicapped. 1,000 children became permanently disabled. 2,088 women, 3,374 children and 410 old people were injured. 1,200 families lost their breadwinners. 90 families were entirely erased. 49 massacres were executed.

In addition, 466,000 citizens were displaced, 2,360 houses were completely destroyed, 13,644 houses were partly destroyed, 30,000 workers lost their jobs, and 134 factories were completely demolished. The destruction of Gaza cost a financial loss of 3,500,000,000 USD. 

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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.

• The centers include more than 100 social housing units with the necessary facilities to end the suffering of displaced families.
• QC’s office implements 94 income-generating projects and 122 water projects and sponsors 1,300 persons and families in Sri Lanka.

Qatar Charity’s (QC) office in Sri Lanka continues to implement more multi-service centers projects, which include social housing units and other service facilities, as part of its tireless efforts to resettle the poor families, who have been displaced from their villages in the past decades.

In conjunction with the opening of its office in the capital Colombo last March, Qatar Charity inaugurated four multi-service centers, each of which contains 22 houses (social housing units), a health center, a kindergarten, a mosque, an artesian water, endowed shops, and green spaces.

The centers, which were built at a cost of QR4mn, are expected to benefit hundreds of families directly and indirectly. The charity is currently working on the implementation of another center project with the same specifications. Also, it is preparing to build two social housing units for the poor as well.

These multi-service centers benefited families displaced in other villages in the north of the country, living in temporary camps or houses lacking the most basic amenities to sustain a dignified life.

Most of the beneficiaries are peasants, fishermen and daily wage earners, who are materially unable to build their own homes.

The aim of these projects is to resettle the second generation of these marginalized groups, affected by difficult circumstances that the country experienced in the past, by giving them decent homes that can preserve their human dignity and provide them with the necessary facilities.

As Qatar Charity aims at economically empowering poor families, it has stared providing a number of orphans’ mothers and underprivileged families with income-generating projects as part of the 2018 plan, which includes the completion of 94 Economic Empowerment Projects, worth more than QR314,000.

These projects include sewing machines for widows, livestock and poultry, fishing boats, bicycles for students and tricycles for people with special needs in addition to productive projects such dairy sheep farming for an orphanage.

In Sri Lanka, Qatar Charity sponsors 1,300 persons, most of whom are orphans in addition to poor families, students, teachers, people with special needs as part of its efforts in the field of social welfare. Also, QC’s office is implementing 122 water projects worth more than QR860,000.

QC’s humanitarian intervention dates back to 1993 when it used to work in coordination with local charities. It opened its office last March to directly oversee its projects and intensify its humanitarian and development efforts in the country.

During the holy month of Ramadan, the office distributed 30,000 ready Iftar meals and about 1800 food baskets, benefiting more than 60,000 people. The charity is currently implementing development, construction and water projects at a cost of QR13mn.