Doha: Qatar Charity’s (QC) Community Development Centre Al Khor Branch for Women has announced the start of its summer programme.
The ‘Colour Your Summer’ targets girls aged 6-16. The total number of participants reached 35. The programme began this week and runs until August-end to develop skills and help girls invest their free summer time with fun and benefits.
Ali Al Gharib, Director, Programmes and Centres Management, Local Development Executive Management, QC, said, “QC seeks to implement summer programmes to invest girls’ time in a useful and fun way. We do our best to invest opportunities to reinforce values by holding activities for the young and youth. It deeply affects their future.”
He said it was the community duty of developmental centres to target different age groups. “We seek to discover their talents, which would make them play bigger roles in society; we also seek to improve their multiple skills,” he added.
Mariam Al Mohanndi, Director of the centre, said the programme was launched for the sixth year in a row. “We hold educational activities that link the centre to the community; and that helps play a developmental role in serving multiple groups of society. The programme aims at investing girls’ free summer time in a way that would meet their needs. The activities would bring benefits for them through religious, educational, cultural, social, sports, artistic and entertaining activities in cooperation with authorities and qualified staff,” she said.
She said activities include learning how to cook, how to do decoupage art and how to decorate, organise flowers, and wrap presents. The girls will also learn how to make fresh coffee and juice. It is also teaching girls to take care of prayer and memorise athkar, to make their lives from infancy full of values and principles. The participants were advised to make use of activities and have fun.
Activities also cover the social aspect of the girls’ lives and include trips, visits, competitions, volunteering, dramas, educational cinema, reading useful books, sports and gymnastic exercises in cooperation with Fitness Centre in Khor to raise their health and physical awareness.
QC started the summer programme ‘Have Fun & Learn 2’, organised by its Khor Branch for Men. It started on July 16 and runs until the beginning of September. It targets over 100 students from primary and preparatory educational levels. It includes educational, cultural and artistic events, football, swimming, horse racing and archery competitions, craft workshops along with drawing on paper and glass, burning woods, writing Arabic calligraphy and field trips
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