Qatar- Eid Charity's Ramadan projects benefit 1.5 million people worldwide
Date
7/14/2016 4:12:49 AM
(MENAFN- The Peninsula) DOHA: Over 1.5 million people benefitted from Ramadan projects launched by sheikh Eid Charitable Foundation (Eid Charity) in Qatar and outside, at a cost of QR22m.
In Qatar, Some 400,000 people were served Iftar meals at 63 places, including Doha, Al Wakra, Al Khor and Al Shahaniya. The QR8m project was funded by philanthropists in Qatar. Over 8,000 expatriates from Indian community were provided with Iftar meals at two places on one day, QNA reports.
Some 700 Iftar meals were distributed to poor families in Abu Hamour, Muithir and Madinat Khalifa. A total of 21,000 meals were provided during Ramadan.
Eid Charity provided Iftar meals to over 1.2 million people in 25 countries at a cost of over QR14m. The amount was raised through donations from people in Qatar and the project was implemented in collaboration with partners of Eid Charity. More than 10,000 Syrian internally displaced people and those sheltering in neighbouring countries — totalling about 300,000 people — benefitted from Iftar meals daily
Iftar meals offered at mosques in 21 countries
Some 150,000 people in Palestine, 133,00 in Yemen, 50,000 each in Sudan and Iraq and 20,000 each in India, Somalia and Mauritania, and 10,000 in Mali and thousands in other countries benefited from the initiative.
Qatari donors who financed to build mosques worldwide offered Iftar meals at the mosques in 21 countries.
The Peninsula
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