Qatar Charity has completed a new multi-service project in Indonesia.
The “House of the Qur’an” school is valued at QR1.5mn
and will benefit more than 350 students. It comprises six classrooms, a mosque, a science laboratories hall, an office, a water well, eight toilets, housing for teachers and students in addition to two shops.
The school aims to improve the level of education and community development in the target area and comes as part of a series of community development projects that comply with the 2015 Millennium Development Goals.
This is the 15th multi-service centre set up by QC in Indonesia. The centres are spread across several cities.
QC has also implemented a number of cultural and educational projects in the country, including the building of 16 schools (benefiting around 53,000 people), 496 mosques, (benefiting about a quarter of a million people) and a project for the printing and distribution of the Holy Qur’an (benefiting around 150,000 people).
Qatar Charity opened its Indonesia office in Aceh in 2006. It also has a representative in West Java and another in East Timor.
Its main areas of work in Indonesia focus on the building of mosques, schools and other educational institutes, Qur’an memorisation centres, orphanages, health centres and homes for poor families, sponsorship of teachers, preachers, students and poor families, health awareness and environmental campaigns for students and the digging of shallow and artesian wells.
QC also carried out special projects last Ramadan, benefiting thousands of people at a cost of over QR600,000, including Iftar meals and Zakat al-Fitr.