Doha: The Regulatory Authority for Charitable Activities (RACA) celebrated the World Humanitarian Day which falls on August 19 each year, in the presence of RACA officials, representatives of Qatar Charity and Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS), and partners in the humanitarian work.
The celebration this year highlights the direct impact of climate emergency on the most vulnerable people of the world, raises awareness of their problems, and supports the efforts to deal with climate change.
It also commemorates the aid and other workers who were killed while working for humanitarian causes.
In a press conference held on the occasion, Director of Licensing and International Cooperation Departments at RACA Dr. Mohammed Salah stressed the importance of marking the World Humanitarian Day, highlighting a purpose of the United Nations Charter which stipulates to achieve international cooperation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural, or humanitarian character.
He noted that the press conference aimed at highlighting the unremitting efforts of Qatar through the Regulatory Authority for Charitable Activities and the state charitable institutions in the field of international cooperation, humanitarian development, response to crises and humanitarian disasters, addressing climate change, and strengthening partnership with international bodies and United Nations institutions to coordinate humanitarian action.
He said that the Qatari humanitarian and charitable work has made many achievements based on the leading Qatari role in this field, to become a prominent mark in humanitarian and charitable work regionally and globally. This enabled Qatari charities to gain the trust of the international community and international humanitarian and charitable organisations.
