Qatar Charity

Qatar Charity
مؤسسة قطر الخيرية Arabic
Founded at Qatar
Type NGO
Nonprofit organization
Headquarters Qatar
Region
Global
Official language
Arabic
English
Urdu
Slogan Trusted partners in delivering hope
Website https://www.qcharity.org/en/global
Formerly called
 Qatar Charitable Society

Qatar Charity (QC) is an NGO founded in 1992 for the development of the Qatari community and those communities in need. The QC projects address issues ranging from disaster relief to income generation initiatives, to education and health care. It acts locally (and popularly) with the general public with counters setup specifically in various shopping malls in Qatar.[1][2]

Once known as "Qatar Charitable Society", Qatar Charity is today Qatar’s largest NGO,[3] one of the non-governmental leading charities in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and at a global level.[4] Sheikh Hamad bin Nasser al-Thani is the current chairman of Qatar Charity, which is active in more than 25 countries and has subsidiary offices in UK,[5] Pakistan,[6] and Indonesia.[7]

Management

As of 2015, Qatar Charity is headed by its president,Hamad bin Nasser al-Thani,[5] and its CEO, Yousef bin Ahmed al-Kuwari.[8]

Major projects

Among QC’s major long-term projects are “Tayf,” a charity program to collect in-kind donations,[4] and the annual “Iftar” project for the month of Ramadan, which aims to provide meals to thousands of fasting Muslims in targeted countries.[9] In July 2015, Vodafone Qatar and Qatar Charity created a partnership. Employees of Vodafone helped feed workers at camps in the Ras Laffan Industrial City with Iftar meals during Ramadan. Vodafone promised to donate $275 per hour that each employee volunteers. The donations will go to Qatar Charity’s Family Sponsorship program. The program helps low-income families throughout the Gulf area.[10] Recently, Qatar Charity has also launched a website (“Travel and Aid”) to attract participation in charitable work.[11]

Qatar Charity is at the forefront of relief work in the face of major natural disasters. This was the case in Nepal, where Qatar Charity distributed $100.000 in food, blankets, mattresses and other non-food items including hygiene kits.[12] In Sierra Leone, the charity supported the purchase of vital equipment at an Ebola Treatment Center (ETC) in Lunsar.[13] It also played a part in the 2008–2009 Gaza Strip aid delivering around $140,000 worth of medical supplies. In other international efforts, it had raised around QAR 2 million as relief for the 2010 Pakistan floods.[14]

In Niger, Qatar Charity is supporting local efforts to combat drought and improve the overall desperate conditions in the villages of Sowna and Aichign by funding the installation of modern solar-powered artesian wells.[15] In southern Mali, it opened shelters for displaced children. During 2014, Qatar Charity’s long-standing commitment to the people of Somalia was renewed as the charity provided QAR 25.5 million ($7 million) in life-saving relief, recovery and rehabilitation programs and activities.[16] QC launched a project to construct the village of 'Doha Alkhair' in Djibouti at an estimated cost of QAR 4 million in September 2015. One-hundred houses, basic amenities and public utilities were among the planned infrastructure.[17]

QC recently sent relief convoys to refugees in South Sudan, and it is currently funding programs in support of Syrian refugees in Lebanon.[18] As of October 2015, the organization has carried out four housing projects in Syria, during which it has repaired and built new villages.[19] The most notable housing project is Al Rayyan, an under-construction village designed to accommodate 7,000 people.[20] QC has also deployed around 400 pre-fabricated housing units in Syria.[19]

Moreover, the charity actively promotes engagement, employment and enterprise development for young people in the Arab world. One of the latest such efforts includes the renovation project of Al-Quds University at a cost of QAR 4.5 million.[21]

Programs

Qatar Charity has 12 charitable programs in addition to the other programs that they cooperate in with other partners.[4]

Shop And Aid

Shop And Aid is a program that helps individuals to donate for Qatar Charity works by buying several products from the internet and the profit will go to Qatar Charity efforts.[22]

Dal ala alkheer

Dal ala alkheer is a program where individuals can share different cases over the internet from the organization website and then win points as a reward. the program aim is to help individuals to donate to the organization without spending any money [23][24] The name of the program means "the one who tells about good" it was taken from a quote for prophet Muhmmed That say "God reward the one who tells others about good the same reward as the one who actually made it".

One Heart

Local documentary produced by the Qatar Charity Society and represented his idea by a group of Qatari youth excellence in the areas of advocacy and media and Message Board and poetic adventures charity and entertainment filmed in the turkey to the definition of the difficult circumstances experienced by the population there.[25]

Tayef

Tayef is a map-based web application that helps donors to connect people in need in Qatar.[26]

Travel And Aid

Travel And Aid is a booking website for flights and hotels that help individuals and organization to book flights and hotels and donate to the organization with the broker fee for each booking[27]

Cooperation with other Charities

As one of the leading Gulf-origin nongovernmental organizations, Qatar Charity has made many partnerships with many of the lead Charities in the world.

Cooperation with Unicef

Qatar Charity has many projects with Unicef as they have signed a memorandum of understanding in 2013 to develop a framework that aims to co-operation in humanitarian response to disasters in Africa and the middle east.[28]

Cooperation with UNHCR

Qatar Charity and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has signed partnership and co-operation agreement to provide aid to Myanmar Muslims in 2013. [29]

Cooperation with Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation against polio

in 2013 Qatar Charity has signed an agreement with Bill and Melinda Gates foundation to raise funds in support of a six-year plan backed by the World Health Organization to eradicate polio globally.[30]

Cooperation with Vodafone

Qatar Charity has signed a partnership agreement with Vodafone in August 2010 to create and implement charitable and socially beneficial initiatives.[31]

References

  1. ↑ IHSAN YOUSSEF. "QC signs pact with Shoprite, Mega Mart" (News article). Qatar Tribune. Qatar Tribune. Retrieved 27 May 2012.
  2. ↑ "Msheireb Properties and Qatar Charity launch Box Appeal campaign, to coincide with International Workers' Day". Al Bawaba. Al Bawaba. 2 May 2012. Retrieved 27 May 2012.
  3. ↑ "Qatar Charity And WFP Join Forces To Engage The Private Sector In The Fight Against Hunger | WFP | United Nations World Food Programme - Fighting Hunger Worldwide". www.wfp.org. Retrieved 2015-07-09.
  4. 1 2 3 "الرئيسية". www.qcharity.org. Retrieved 2015-07-09.
  5. 1 2 "Qatar Charity opens office to oversee projects in Europe". Gulf Times. 7 June 2014. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  6. ↑ "Qatar Charity Pakistan". www.qcharity.org.pk. Retrieved 2015-07-09.
  7. ↑ "Home". www.qcharityid.org. Retrieved 2015-07-09.
  8. ↑ "Qatar Charity Haj campaign takes off". Gulf Times. 18 September 2015. Retrieved 18 September 2015.
  9. ↑ "Qatar Charity Launches its Annual Iftar Project across the World". Qatar Charity. 11 June 2015. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  10. ↑ "Vodafone and Charity Qatar team to deliver Ramadan meals". Gulf News Journal. 8 July 2015. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
  11. ↑ "QC launches Travel and Aid website". Qatar Charity. 17 June 2015. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  12. ↑ Kovessy, Peter (7 May 2015). "Qatar relief workers arrive in Nepal, extend mission to three months". Doha News. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  13. ↑ "Qatar Charity Steps up Efforts to Help Fight Ebola in Sierra Leone". Qatar Charity. 13 June 2015. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  14. ↑ "Qatar Charity Pakistan". Qatar Charity Pakistan. Qatar Charity. Retrieved 27 May 2012.
  15. ↑ "Qatar Charity is Combatting Drought Via Solar Power Artesian Water Wells and Establishing Community-Managed Health Services in Niger". Retrieved 2015-07-09.
  16. ↑ "Qatar Charity Somalia: Active in Life Saving Relief and Longer-Term Recovery". Retrieved 2015-07-09.
  17. ↑ "Djibouti PM lays foundation stone for Doha Alkhair village". The Peninsula Qatar. 22 September 2015. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  18. ↑ "QC water project offers lifeline to Syrian refugees in Lebanon". Retrieved 2015-07-09.
  19. 1 2 "Qatar Charity rebuilds Syrian village battered in war". The Peninsula. 5 October 2015. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
  20. ↑ "$1.5bn Qatari aid for Syrians since uprising". The Peninsula. 20 September 2015. Retrieved 4 October 2015.
  21. ↑ "Qatar Charity to rebuild Palestinian university". Gulf Times. Gulf Publishing & Printing Co. Archived from the original (News article) on 5 October 2015.
  22. ↑ "About - Shop And Aid". shopandaid.com. Retrieved 2016-06-24.
  23. ↑ "Dal ala alkheer". Retrieved 2016-06-24.
  24. ↑ "Donate to charity without spending money | arab.org". 2016-06-06. Retrieved 2016-06-24.
  25. ↑ "https://www.qcharity.org/en/global/programs?storytypeid=14". Retrieved 2016-06-24. External link in |title= (help)
  26. ↑ "Tayef - Qatar Charity". www.qcharity.org. Retrieved 2016-06-24.
  27. ↑ "Travel and Aid – Book cheap flights & hotels for charity". www.travelandaid.com. Retrieved 2016-06-24.
  28. ↑ "Unicef signs MoU with Qatar Charity". 2013-05-04. Retrieved 2016-06-24.
  29. ↑ "Qatar Charity, UNHCR in pact to aid Rohingya". 2013-04-30. Retrieved 2016-06-24.
  30. ↑ "Qatar Charity joins Bill Gates in fight against polio - Doha News". Doha News. 2013-04-24. Retrieved 2016-05-25.
  31. ↑ "Vodafone Qatar | Vodafone Qatar and Qatar Charity Sign Partnership Agreement | vodafone.qa". www.vodafone.qa. Retrieved 2016-06-24.
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