Qatar Charity (QC) has allocated QR36mn for the relief aid of Syrian people, it was announced yesterday.
The aid includes the distribution of stoves and fuel, blankets and winter clothing for refugees in Arsal and Shebaa and on the Syrian-Turkish border.
The relief aid comes in conjunction with the allocation of QR2mn emergency aid for over 73,000 Syrian refugees in Lebanon and on the Turkish-Syrian border to help them face the ‘Huda’ storm.
On Friday and Saturday, QC sent the first batch of urgent aid for distribution to Syrian refugees across Lebanon, particularly the areas of Arsal, the Shebaa Farms and the Syrian-Turkish border. This is in addition to the running of mobile clinics, at a cost of around QR2mn, out of a total QR4mn of emergency aid projects for the current winter, which will be carried out over the coming days.
QC will provide food in the camps in the Bekaa Valley and the north, with an estimated 500 Syrian families in Lebanon expected to benefit over the next six months. The projects also include sponsoring 50 families that include orphans or widows.
QC will establish a charity market in Al-Ashiqaa Camp in the Bekaa region. The market secures the basic services to the population of the camp at the cheapest prices. It also provides jobs for some unemployed people in the camp.
In Iraq, QC will soon begin distributing heaters and blankets to hundreds of Syrian refugees to help them face the bitter cold.
One of the most important projects that fall within the QR36.5mn aid package is the purchase and installation of an electric elevator in the medical complex in Arsal, a sewing project in Armoun residential complex, and the ‘Pillar of Life’ project to sponsor the camps housing Syrian refugee families, such as the Mercy Camp in Akkar, in addition to ‘Support’, a project to enable Syrian productive refugee families, sponsoring 50 preachers, and a programme to provide 5,000 breakfast meals in the Bekaa and Arsal.
Last month QC implemented a number of health projects for the benefit of displaced Syrians inside Syria. These included the vaccination of a large number of children against polio and measles at a cost of approximately QR2mn.
A project for the treatment of sick and wounded Syrian refugees was also implemented at a cost of QR1mn, a power plant project and the mobilisation of oxygen for several hospitals inside Syria.
QC launched a three-month psychological support project for 500 Syrian refugee children in the north of Lebanon and Akkar province.
QC has also carried out projects for displaced Syrians inside and outside Syria, including a convoy of 11 trucks carrying food aid and clothing, at a cost of QR2mn and a number of agricultural projects related to the cultivation of wheat and potatoes for the benefit of hundreds of thousands of Syrians, at a cost of approximately QR1mn, in addition to sponsoring 15 Syrian refugee shelters in Lebanon, at a cost of approximately QR2mn, and the establishment of educational centres at a cost of approximately QR1.5mn. Prior to this, QC sponsored a number of conferences in favour of development in Syria, at a cost of approximately QR1mn.
QC’s Syria campaign focuses on refugees and displaced persons affected by the cold, under the slogan ‘Before they Freeze’ and runs in co-operation with the “# Sanad_ahl_aham.” The campaign involves the collection of winter clothes, electric generators, blankets and other means of heating and children’s games, in order to offer support to Syrians affected by the recent snow storm.
QC has called on all Qatari benefactors and philanthropists to participate in this campaign by giving donations in cash or kind. The organisation can be contacted on 66348510 (Duhail area to the north) 66314798 (Rayan and its environs) 66448212 (Doha and its suburbs) and 66467838 (Al Wakrah and its suburbs).
Donations for Syrian refugees can also be made by sending the word ‘Syria’ to 92632 to donate QR50, to 92642 to donate QR100, to 92428 to donate QR500 and to 92429 to donate QR1,000. Donations can also be made using a credit card at the website qcharity.com, at Ooredoo self-service devices and at collection points across Qatar. More information may be had by calling 44667711.
QC, recently named first globally in terms of relief for the Syrian people over the last three years, had spent QR187mn on aid for Syria people until the end of 2014, which benefited 4,033,000 people. As much as 57% of these projects were for Syrians within the country and included food, shelter, health and sponsorships.


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