(MENAFN- Gulf Times) Qatar Charity (QC) has sent a relief convoy into the besieged Yarmouk camp, Syria, easing the suffering of the resident Palestinian families.
QC has been able to distribute 3,230 food parcels at a total cost of around QR620,000.
The food parcels contained basic items such as sugar, rice, oil, lentils, pasta, barley, tea, dates and cheese.
Ibrahim Ali, head of the relief department at QC, said: "The relief efforts provided by Qatar Charity in collaboration with the European Wafaa Campaign are the embodiment of the organisation's humanitarian role, striving to meet the most urgent humanitarian needs of the beneficiaries.
"At the Yarmouk camp, the Palestinian population suffers from severe hunger and deprivation."
Ali explained that the success of the distribution is in line with QC's track record of providing urgent aid in record time. Days before, QC was the first humanitarian organisation to provide relief in the Yemen city of Aden, succeeding in entering the area where many others had failed.
The residents of Yarmouk expressed their thanks and gratitude to QC and donors from Qatar for their significant effort, noting that the distribution had helped ease their hunger and give them hope where previously they had felt abandoned and alone.
QC has also provided emergency relief to Syrians in the Damascus countryside in light of the worsening humanitarian condition there due to the blockade, which has led to the lack of basic needs. The relief included food and medicine for 20,000 beneficiaries at a total cost of around QR1.25mn.
The project also provided food assistance to around 1,000 families unable to leave their homes, with baskets containing 20kg of flour, jam, cheese, olives, sugar and rice, at a cost of QR800 per basket, for the benefit of around 15,000 people.
Relief projects for displaced and refugee Syrians have benefited 4.2mn people at a total cost of QR205mn, from April 2011 to January 2015.
The projects have covered the areas of education, health, food and shelter, with 59% of the projects directed to the Syrian interior at a cost of around QR121.2mn and the remainder supporting refugees in neighbouring countries.
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