DOHA: Qatar Charity (QC) has built a school at a cost of QR1m to create educational opportunities to orphan girls in Bangladesh.
The project “Haji Ismet School for the orphans” was needed on urgently basis, said Khalid Abdullah Al Yafei, the Executive Director for Operations Department at QC. As more than 1,000 girl students sponsored by QC were residing in a social welfare centre established by QC in Beherob, Kishoreganj District.
There are no intermediate and secondary schools near to this centre so they had to walk a long distance to reach to the nearest school facing unfavourable weather conditions. The project will help the beneficiary with secondary and university education and achieve a better future for the children of the targeted areas.
Building this school by Qatar Charity is mainly aimed at raising the level of the students, providing them with the intermediate and secondary education and permanent and temporary jobs, and reducing the classrooms overcrowding in the neighbouring schools that follow the two-shift system.
The project was financed by citizens and expatriate as donations.
The facility is a six-storied building stretching in an area of 1,800 sqm, said Dr Mohammad Al Amin Hafez, the Director of Qatar Charity’s office in Bangladesh.
The school offers religious and technical educations with modern education including handicrafts and medical professions.
The school was built under the Orphans Welfare Program, a key project implemented by Qatar Charity in Bangladesh. The project sponsors 5,700 orphans where four big centres provide a complete care to 2,000 orphans including accommodation, food, drink, health and education services and vocational training.
The remaining orphans receive a high quality comprehensive care in the educational, health and recreational fields while living with their families.
These centres, which include many facilities and internal departments, aims at providing the orphans with the comprehensive education (general, religious and vocational), health care and all required services so that they could live a decent life.
