Qatar Charity spent QR322m on Syria relief packages

Date

10/24/2015 9:49:20 PM

(MENAFN- The Peninsula) Rohingya children receive schoolbags.

DOHA: Qatar Charity spent QR322m on relief packages for more than six million people displaced inside Syria and refugees in neighbouring countries during the last four and half years.

A total of 6083517 people affected by the war in Syria benefitted from the humanitarian aid provided by Qatar Charity from April 2011 to September 2015.

More than 67 percent of the total aid (QR213.06m) was disbursed inside Syria to provide basic needs to displaced people.

The remaining amount was used for refugees sheltered in neighbouring countries.

More than QR58.27m was spent on refugees in Lebanon QR26.88m in Jordan and QR19m in Turkey. Refugees in Iraq and other countries received QR4.5m.

More than QR120.21m was spent to provide shelters and over QR102.56m on food. Health care and education projects cost over QR68.21m and QR30.75m respectively. Qatar Charity dispatched caravans carrying foodstuff inside Syria. In addition basic ration materials were also distributed. It has also financed projects for cultivating potato and cereal. Portable bakeries with a capacity of 60000 breads per day were set up inside Syria for the displaced. The project cost for installation and operation was QR3m for six months. Food projects cost a total QR102561000 benefitting over 2991000 people.

Some 2500 residential units are being constructed along Syria-Turkey border.

QC helps 1090 Rohingyas

Doha: Qatar Charity (QC) supported Rohingya families washed up to the beach of Indonesia while trying to escape oppression in their countries.

The QC office in Jakarta offered food clothes and schoolbags for some 200 children and dug wells to provide drinking water through cisterns but in limited quantities.

A total of 1090 refugees benefited. Hundreds of Muslim Rohingya families were washed to the coast of Aceh in Indonesia and were disoriented after having spent a few days in the sea without food mattresses or covers.

QC distributed cooked and dry foodstuff soaps shampoos toothpastes and toothbrushes to refugees in shelters in Northern Aceh Eastern Aceh Nijsa and Aceh Tamiang and was implemented at a cost of QR200000.

The Peninsula

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