DOHA: Sheikh Eid Charitable Foundation has selected Jordan, Mali and Comoros to distribute ration packets to families without breadwinners.
A total of 1,295 families will benefit from the project, said Ali bin Khalid Al Hajari, Head, Foreign Projects at the foundation.
The list includes 260 families from Jordan, 664 from Mali and 371 from Comoros.
The packets will contain rice and edible oils in large quantities and for a family to last more than a month, he added. Each packet will cost up to QR400.
The initiative is being launched for the third year in a row.
In the first year, the project attracted donations totalling about QR2.26m. A total of 6,963 families benefited — about 1,000 from Sudan, 500 from Somalia, 1,000 from Indonesia, 287 from Pakistan, 1,500 from Yemen, 300 from Ethiopia and 1,844 from Palestine.
In the second year, packets worth QR301,000 were distributed to 336 families in Somalia and 500 in Yemen.
So far, packets are being provided for families of orphans once a year and the foundation plans to distribute on a monthly basis.
Donations could be made through the foundation’s website www.eidcharity.net or by sending a text message on 923321 for QR50, on 920241 for QR100, on 928601 for QR500 and on 928611 for QR1,000.
The Peninsula
