Sheikh Thani Bin Abdullah Foundation for Humanitarian Services (RAF) and the IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation, its partner in Turkey, will open on Thursday the RAF City for Human Development in the Turkish City of Rihaniyah to serve as the largest project to provide care for Syrian orphans in the Arab and Islamic region.
The RAF City has a total built-up area of more than 68,000 square metres. It has been constructed at a total cost of QR71mn donated by philanthropists in Qatar.
RAF said in a press release yesterday that about 6,000 orphans from the Syrian refugees in Turkey will benefit from the City’s facilities, while 990 orphans will reside in the City on permanent basis and receive education and all the services they need.
More than 5,000 orphans will benefit of education, health, sports and social services provided by the City, it said, noting that it would be a unique model of care, rehabilitation and capacity-building of orphans to be leaders in the future.
The project is designed as an integrated city with 55 residential villas in addition to schools, closed and open gymnasiums, mosque, social halls, an integrated health centre, green spaces along with service rooms and markets.
The RAF Foundation has laid the cornerstone of the project in the city of Rihaniyah in southeastern Turkey’s Hatay Province on July 2, 2015, corresponding with World Orphan Day, and within the framework of a protocol signed with the Ministry of Family and Social Policies in Turkey.
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