State ministers of Niger have praised a Qatar Charity project to help underprivileged students and their families.

The assistance included over 17 tons of rice and 1,250 liters of oil which was distributed to 250 students at a Niger preparatory school.

The ‘School Food Distribution’ project aims to help reduce high school drop-out rates due to difficult living conditions.

Qatar Charity has concluded its support and rehabilitation program for productive Somali women.

A special concert was held in the city of Hargeisa, Somaliland (Somalia Land), to mark the end of the program which benefited over 40 poor families.

Qatar Charity (QC) has entered a partnership agreement with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Somali capital, Mogadishu with a sum of QR 3.5m.

The agreement is regarding a project to support the voluntary return of those displaced in south Somalia. Accordingly, UNHCR would work jointly to help around 1,100 displaced Somali families return voluntarily to their home towns. UNHCR would finance the project with around QR3.4m and QC would carry out the project through its field office in Somalia.

Qatar Charity (QC) has finalised the establishment of Qatar Centre for Training (QCT) in Kosovo at a cost of more than QR4mn. Mahmud Abbas, director, QC office in Kosovo, said that the QCT project has an important role in education and development in the Kosovo community and an integral part of the care for the needy, in particular the orphans.

1. Situation Overview

The relief operations in both Rajanpur & DG Khan continued on 7th day. Army, Government, NGOs and other stake holders remained busy in relief work in flood affected areas. The flood response has been enhanced by the Government and other relief organizations.

1. Situation Overview

Nine thousand refugees benefitted from the distributions which were part of QC’s ‘We are All with Syria’ campaign in cooperation with Sheikh Eid Charitable Foundation, RAF Foundation and the Qatari Red Crescent.

In Iraq 3840 refugees at the ‘Dumez’ camp in Dahuk Province, Kurdistan, benefitted from the distribution, 2900 refugees in 34 camps in Jordan received items and 2300 in Istanbul and Hatay, Turkey.

Qatar Charity (QC) has opened a shelter for children who fled to South Mali along with their parents.

The centre was opened by QC in June to help students catch up with the lessons they had missed.

QC executive director for International Operations, Mohamed Mubarak al-Adassani, said the initiative was aimed at easing the sufferings of parents and to make the 2011-2012 school year succeed, through giving the students an equal opportunity as their peers in the stable regions of Mali.

Qatar Charity is planning to repatriate 500 displaced Sri Lankan families.

The IDPs were forced to leave their homes in the north of Sri Lanka by the civil war that began in the eighties and ended in 2009.

The decision to help the IDPs was made after a recent QC field trip to the country.

The QC delegation included Ibrahim Mousa Zainal, Director of Planning and International Development, and Abdrabbi ben Sahraa of the Policy and Planning at the Department of International Development.