DOHA: Qatar Charity (QC) has built 400 houses at a cost of QR5m ($1.37m) for displaced Syrians in a village where residents wanted to go back to their homes after normalcy returned.
The project has been executed at Wadi Al Daif near Ma’rrat Al Numan city in Syria. The new houses have benefited the displaced whose homes were destroyed by shelling.
The houses, which are cemented, consist of two rooms, a kitchen and toilet. The 400 housing units can accommodate a total of 2,400 people.
The project is part of several such projects QC has been executing in different villages and towns of Syria to enable the affected families to be rehabilitated in their native villages.
New houses will reunite families and allow them to live under one roof, once again after suffering during stay in shelters. They will also be protected from cold in the winter that has almost begun.
It has also been raining in some places in Syria making the winter colder. QC accords priority to housing projects because it is a basic human need.
Therefore, a large number of QC projects in Syria are related to housing.
QC is committed to providing necessary humanitarian aid to displaced Syrian people and refugees who have sought shelter in neighbouring countries, said Mohammad Jassem Al Sulaiti, Coordinator of Relief, at QC.
Some 67 percent of QC’s total projects for affected Syrian people have been launched inside Syria, said Al Sulaiti. So far, QC has spent QR213m ($58.5m) to provide aid inside Syria.
The Peninsula
