DOHA: Sheikh Thani bin Abdullah Foundation for Humanitarian Services (RAF) is running a portal in Arabic at www.mostshar-raf.com to provide counselling to people on social, psychological, health and educational issues.
Questions related to personality and skill developments are also being addressed.
The portal has registered more than three million hits, visited by people of different age groups.
Sixty-six experts, including counsellors, are involved in providing free counselling services related to their respective specialisation.
Experts have been roped in from 16 countries keeping in mind cultural diversification of help-seekers. The privacy of people is being guarded.
So far, 4,673 regular users have registered themselves for the portal through e-mail. In addition, questions are coming in from more than 50 countries from across the world.
The portal is available on smart mobile phones as a first application for online counselling which is easing the process.
The questions that have been asked as part of the counselling services being offered have been published in the form of a book as a reference for research scholars and those seeking advice. The book contains 21 chapters of selected counselling in different fields taken from the portal.
Latest counselling is floating on a page of the portal. It is classified in four fields, namely, education, social, psychological and personal development.
Questions related to education, for example, are like: “My son is not going to school without his mother”, “My grade declined since I changed the school”, and “My daughter is very rude”.
The Peninsula
