More than 1.3mn people from 13 countries around the world have benefited from Qatar Charity’s (QC) QR16mn worth of food baskets, distributed during Ramadan.
In a statement, QC said this project aims to increase its relief activities in Ramadan, deliver help to the needy people suffering from crises, establish “human solidarity culture,” and providing help wherever needed.
“Implementing such a relief project is considered among additional allocations of QC Ramadan foreign charity projects, launched in 37 countries since the month’s beginning,” QC’s relief department director Mohamed al-Kaabi said.
“We were keen to include all basic (food) necessities in Ramadan in the baskets, bearing in mind different food habits of each recipient people and hoping to relief our beneficiaries,” he stressed.
Each basket includes a variety of basic foods such as wheat, sugar, rice, dates, meat, beans and other essential foods.
According to QC, food baskets have been distributed in Syria, Iraq, Somalia, Niger, Djibouti, Yemen, Pakistan, Chad, Central African Republic, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Ethiopia and Myanmar, with close focus on countries undergoing crises considering their unfortunate situation.
“Millions of emigrants suffer in these countries, departing from their houses and losing everything which calls for lending them a helping hand to ease up their burden,” al-Kaabi stressed.
He added that Somalis suffer a drought crisis, which resulted in tragic loses and the departure of its people to the capital, Mogadishu, to ask for basic needs.
“This has been taken into consideration while implementing the additional allocations project of Ramadan plan,” al-Kaabi said.
He thanked those who shared their blessings to the needy, pointing at the generosity of Qataris during Ramadan.
