Qatar Charity’s aid distribution for the displaced Syrians gets under way.
DOHA: Qatar Charity has provided humanitarian aid including foods, shelters, health services and education opportunities to more than 16.2 million Syrian people, internally displaced and refugees, at a cost of QR544.5m from April 2011 to end of December 2017.
Qatar Charity’s humanitarian relief interventions for displaced Syrians increased significantly in 2017 compared with previous years, as the beneficiaries in this year amounted 28 percent of the total number of beneficiaries in past seven years, said a release.
Qatar Charity Relief projects focus on supporting the affected people inside Syria, as the beneficiaries residing inside the country reached 72 percent of the total beneficiaries living in Syria and those sheltering in abroad.
The QC relief projects have been given greater attentions, especially in the past seven years, due to the ongoing crisis in several countries, to support the displaced and affected Syrians.
The number of beneficiaries of food supply projects such as food baskets, relief items and running bakeries, reached 8.59 million in past seven years.
As many as 2 million people benefited from housing and non-food projects, which include tents, setting up villages for the displaced persons, distributing blankets, mattresses, fans, kitchen utensils, cleaning appliances, housing rents, refrigerators, washing machines, etc.
Qatar Charity supported 2.77 million persons through its health projects, which include treating sick and wounded, providing medical equipment, supplies and ambulances. Qatar Charity’s educational projects (repairing and operating schools, printing school text books, training teachers and other) benefited 2.84 million people.
Qatar Charity pays special attentions to the relief projects inside Syria, as the beneficiaries residing inside Syria reached 72 percent of the total beneficiaries of its relief projects implemented for the Syrian displaced and refugees inside and outside Syria, which means that 11.67 million people inside Syria benefited from the QC relief projects during the period 2011-2017.
However, the beneficiaries of its relief projects in the countries of asylum (Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, other countries) amounted for more than 28 percent of the total beneficiaries of the relief projects for Syrian displaced and refugees, which accounted for 4.54 million beneficiaries.
Qatar Charity’s relief interventions for the Syrian displaced and refugees increased significantly in 2017, compared to previous years, as the number of beneficiaries of the relief projects in the areas of food, shelter, health and education projects, reached 4.61 million accounting for more than 28 percent of the total number of beneficiaries of the QC relief projects implemented to benefit the Syrian people during last seven years.
The projects implemented in 2017 costs QR189.6 million which accounts for about 35 percent of the total value of projects implemented by Qatar Charity for the benefit of the Syrian people in past seven years.
