QC Eid sacrifice project benefits 11,000 in Qatar

Qatar Charity (QC) has distributed 2,200 Eid al-Adha sacrificial animals in Qatar, benefiting some 11,000 people.

“Qatar Charity, through the distribution of sacrificial animals to households within the state, sought to bring happiness to them and allow them to celebrate the feast,” said Ahmed Saleh al-Ali, QC’s director of Local Development Programmes and Projects.

Al-Ali said the distribution took place on the second, third and fourth days of Eid al-Adha, prior to which coupons were given to the beneficiaries in order to avoid crowds.

Coupons were presented  to 668 QC sponsored families and other needy groups, including patients at Rumailah Hospital, workers, the Indian, Egyptian, Yemeni and Filipino communities and families of orphans, debtors and the divorced.

Families comprising one to five members received one animal each, households consisting of six to 11 people got two animals, while those with more than 12 people received three.

“The distribution allows the beneficiaries to celebrate on the occasion of Eid al-Adha, in light of the fact that there are millions of poor families around the world, unable to afford sacrificial meat at this special time,” al-Ali said.

The official praised all those who had contributed to the campaign, “Your Adhahis are their Eid”, and asked them to continue to donate to QC projects that served the Qatari community.

QC’s Adhahi project aims to provide sacrificial meat to nearly 1mn people in 54 countries spread over three continents (Asia, Africa and Europe), at a total cost of over QR13mn.

Some 27,000 of the sacrifices went to countries experiencing exceptional circumstances, with 700 cows distributed in Palestine at an estimated cost of QR1.5mn. Two thousand sacrificial lambs were distributed in Syria at an estimated cost of more than QR2mn, 4,900 in Somalia at over QR1.7mn and 1,550 in Yemen at more than QR850,000.

QC also aimed to double the number of pilgrims benefiting this year, taking the number to 1,000 pilgrims at a total cost of QR4mn as part of its project for Haj al-Badal and Rifada.

Countries targeted were Syria (benefiting Syrians within and outside the country), Palestine, Iraq, Somalia, Jordan, Qatar, Tunisia, Morocco, Lebanon, Sudan, Rwanda, Uganda, Malawi, Burundi, Kenya, Ivory Coast, Djibouti, Tanzania , Mali, Togo, Nepal, India, Chad, Central African Republic, Angola, Guinea Bissau, Mauritania, Yemen, Bangladesh, Benin, Gambia, Namibia, Lesotho, Botswana, Iran, Sri Lanka, Niger, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Liberia, South Africa, Ethiopia, Burkina Faso, Pakistan, Indonesia, Kosovo, Comoros, Albania, the Philippines, Ghana, Bosnia and Ethiopia.