DOHA: So far over 80 million people benefited from the largess of Qatar Charity (QC) in all over the world during past three decades.
QC has provided more than QR20m to rescue indebted people last year and spent QR25m to help orphans, widows and needy people in Qatar. QC also sponsors more than 95,000 orphans worldwide and it helped 540 Qataris get married in the past 3 years through Zawaj program.
Details were given by QC officials in a press conference held here yesterday to highlights its achievements to mark its 30th anniversary.
QC is providing charity works in 73 countries and having 27 offices and more than 500 partners worldwide. QC is considered one of the oldest and most well-known organizations across Qatar and the Gulf. QC executes projects on humanitarian development, culture, society and the environment in Qatar; and it offers humanitarian aids and implements developmental and humanitarian projects around the world.
QC currently works on achieving sustainable social care, reinforcing economic empowerment and dignified living, supporting education to achieve development, contributing to the creation of social solidarity and co-living, reinforcing Qatar’s role in interacting with local and international developmental and humanitarian issues, and reinforcing the institutional construction of QC as an international, nongovernmental organization. QC paid extra attention to implementing projects outside Qatar considering the bad circumstances from which the Arab and Islamic world are suffering such as poverty, disasters, and wars. QC’s projects cover different fields that include education, health, water and sanitation, social care, educational development, economic empowerment and social housing.
“In those 30 years, QC covered more than 75 countries around 3 continents of the world. Its work included the most important fields of development such as education, health, income generation, aid for the vulnerable categories and water. QC has always quickly responded to disasters and crises around the world,” said Yousef bin Ahmed Al Kuwairi, CEO of QC. It now has partnership agreements with more than 500 international and local partners.
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