DOHA: Qatar Charity distributed emergency winter relief and food aid to more than 1,300 families having 4,500 people in 12 municipalities and villages of Bosnia and Herzegovina at a total cost of QR500,000.
The aid was distributed in many places of the country including some highland areas, came within the framework of the ‘Affected By Winter’ campaign, aiming to alleviate the suffering of needy families.
The relief assistance has been provided through the QC’s office in the country at the time of snowfall and when the temperatures sharply dropped there to less than 15 degrees below zero. Faisal Al Fahida, Executive Director of the QC’s Executive Management of International Operations, said beneficiary families in Bosnia and Herzegovina received food baskets containing flour, oil, sugar, macaroni, canned meat, salt and rice, as well as they received blankets and winter clothes too.
More than 100 tonnes of wood for heating were distributed to poor families living in the highlands, which are hard-to-reach areas, particularly at this time of the year, due to heavy snowfall, leading to the interruption of transport to and from these places, Al Fahida added. The beneficiaries of the aid expressed their thanks and appreciation to the Qatari people for their humanitarian initiatives and their continued support to the Bosnian people in order to alleviate the suffering of those in need, affected and orphans during the winter.
