(MENAFN- Gulf Times) Qatar Charity (QC) yesterday announced that 35 trucks carrying food have entered inside Syria through the Syrian-Turkish border to help the displaced families and families affected by the war in several provinces of Syria.
QC said in a press release that it had begun collaboration with a number of associations to distribute 30,000 food baskets to the needy in northern Syria areas in the provinces of Aleppo, Hama, Idlib and Latakia.
The distribution of food baskets inside Syria comes as part of a campaign launched by Qatar Charity in Ramadan 1437 AH, which gave special priority to the people who are exposed to wars and natural disasters, said QC director, relief management, Mohamed Rashid al-Kaabi, stressing that Syria gained a large share of this campaign.
Al-Kaabi thanked the people of Qatar and the benefactors who have generously supported the humanitarian campaign for the relief of the Syrian people, who need urgent basic living requirements. He called upon benefactors to make more donations during the holy month of Ramadan to feed a lot of families in areas exposed to shelling and destruction.