Food being prepared as part of the project.
In partnership with Mujaddidun Charity, Qatar Charity's office in Sudan implemented a "School Feeding" project during the school year 2016 - 2017 under the slogan "Hunger Free Society".
The project aimed at encouraging pupils to go to school, raising their academic achievement, improving their health conditions and addressing the school dropout issue.
School dropout problem often increases in the suburban areas of the cities, where the parents could not meet their children's basic needs, especially daily meals, due to the difficult economic circumstances. As a result, pupils are unable to concentrate during the class or complete the school day. The Ministry of Education officials in Khartoum commended QC's efforts, particularly offering support to the education field hoping to increase the number of beneficiaries.
"The project aims at providing free daily meals to 4,000 pupils during the school year 2016-2017. School Feeding project targeted 16 schools in four peripheral and needy areas of Khartoum including (Khartoum Bahri – Karary- Jebel Awliaa) at a cost of QR500,000 and it realised its desired objectives" said Mohammed Hussein Kermash, Director of QC's office in Sudan.
In this regard, teachers expressed their satisfaction with the project outputs that positively affected the pupils' achievement and maintained their psychological stability. Awadia Mohammed Ahmed demonstrated that the project benefited 400 orphaned, poor and homeless pupils enrolling in Al-Amal Al-Akhdar School in Maio, Jebel Awliaa.
For his part, Faris Al Zubair, Director of Mujaddidun charity commended QC's efforts leading to the success of the educational project that supported pupils and low-income families hoping to expand partnership with Qatar Charity to cover the needs of more schools in need.
