Latifa Al Mannai School in Tunis built by RAF last year.
Sheikh Thani bin Abdullah Foundation for Humanitarian Services (RAF) implemented 910 development projects and those related to education, social and health at a cost of over QR176m in Arab countries in 2016.
More than 3.6 million people benefitted from the projects. The beneficiary countries received 379 development projects, 287 social projects, 179 education projects and 65 health projects.
The projects aimed at providing basic needs to most deserving people in Arab countries whereby the projects were implemented. It also focused on the development of beneficiaries in a bid to improve their social life and health conditions. The social projects took big portion of the fund and stood at QR75m. The money used to build orphanages, homes for poor people, seasonal projects, sponsoring orphan children, poor families. The social projects helped stabilise the families and saved the future of children of needy people.
The education projects costs QR44m and they were implemented under its global educational initiative, 'Al Ghaza W Al Nur'- 'Food & Light'. The initiative meant to provide food stuffs to the poor families so they could send their children to school rather than to the markets for earning money. The educational fund was spent on building vocational schools, mosques with facilities for basic schooling, regular schools, Islamic and cultural centres. Poor students were also granted scholarships under education projects.
The projects provided educational opportunities to poor children to access the school facilities especially those schools dropped out.
To make poor families productive and provide them basic services, RAF implemented 379 development projects at a cost of QR38m in Arab countries last year. The development projects included drilling surface water wells, establishing small businesses under income generation project to make poor families productive and vocational training centres among others.
RAF implemented 65 health projects at a cost of QR19m in Arab countries in 2016. The projects implemented under the 'Save a Life Initiative' (SALI) to provide urgent primary health care and medical services to vulnerable communities in the beneficiary countries.
The project included building health facilities, providing free treatments to poor people, providing medical equipment, training medical staffs, dispatching medical aid. The health projects helped develop the health sector of the beneficiary countries. The poor patients received necessary treatments and medicines. They were also education about health awareness through special programs for women and children.
