QRCS provides warmth for poor, displaced families during winter [EN/AR]

February 9th, 2025 ― Doha, Qatar: With the donations by the benevolent people of Qatar, Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) is implementing Warm Winter Campaign #TheirWarmthIsOurDuty 2024-2025, through its foreign offices and fellow National Societies in the host countries, with the aim of providing winterization and food supplies to help vulnerable groups withstand the cold weather of the winter.

QRCS office in Lebanon distributed heating oil coupons, in cooperation with the Lebanese Red Cross, for the benefit of 250 families, or 1,250 Syrian refugees at camps and the host communities in the mountainous areas of Beqaa and Akkar governorates.

In Yemen, QRCS office started distributing mattresses and blankets, in cooperation with Yemen Red Crescent Society (YRCS), for the benefit of 1,643 displaced and poor families in the coldest areas of Amran and Saada governorates, at a cost of $100,000.

Each containing two blankets and two mattresses, 827 winterization bags were distributed in Amran and 828 winterization bags in Saada.

The project focused on displaced and vulnerable families, widows, orphans, disabilities, and older persons. Some of the winterization supplies were allocated to patients at mental health and cancer hospitals in Amanat Alasimah.

As part of QRCS’s interventions in Afghanistan during the current winter, two phases of winterization aid were implemented. Phase 1 reached out to 1,100 families in Helmand and Badakhshan provinces, with each family receiving four blankets and 55-kg food parcel (flour and vegetable oil).

Phase 2 involved the distribution of winterization kits to 445 vulnerable families worst hit by the harsh winter in Logar province, with each family receiving four blankets and one tarpaulin.

At a total cost of $228,585 (QR 833,192), the project was implemented in partnership with the Afghan Red Crescent Society (ARCS), in coordination with local authorities in the target provinces.

Other interventions done under the Warm Winter campaign included the following:

1. A total of 16,500 blankets are being distributed to refugees and the host communities in 13 districts of Bangladesh, in cooperation with Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS).
2. Together with Jordan Hashemite Charity Organization (JHCO), QRCS distributed 15,000 blankets in North Gaza and Gaza City, to alleviate the suffering of 5,000 displaced families at shelter camps during the bitter winter.
3. In cooperation with the Red Crescent Society of Kyrgyzstan, charcoal rations were distributed to 500 vulnerable families to ensure their warmth and protection against the bad weather.
4. In Kosovo, 1,875 blankets were distributed to 470 poor families, to protect them against the cold weather and improve their living conditions, in cooperation with the Red Cross Society of Kosovo.

The door remains open to public donations via QRCS website (https//qrcs.qa/cc), donor service number (66666364), home donation collection number (33998898), and bank transfers as follows: Masraf Al Rayan (QA18MAFR000000000011199980003), Dukhan Bank (QA37BRWA000000000200000094340), QNB (QA21QNBA000000000850020196062), QIB (QA51QISB000000000110575190014), and QIIB (QA66QIIB000000001111126666003).