Refugees receiving sacrificial meat at a distribution centre.
DOHA: Qatar Charity provided meat of sacrificial animals to over 900,000 people in 23 countries as part of its Eid Al Adha campaign. The total number of the sacrificial animals (Qurbani) that were delivered reached 26,000 cattle, including sheep and cows worth over QR20m.
Qatar Charity has reached out to more than 12,000 orphans during the holy ten days of Dhul-Hijja. The beneficiary orphans received new Eid clothes and Eid gifts.
Qatar Charity’s Qurbani project focused on low-income families, refugees, displaced persons, QC’s sponsored orphans, people with special needs, as well as workers and those who are not employed.
The project has targeted vulnerable people in the state of Qatar and 30 other countries in Asia, Africa and Europe through QC’s field offices and its local partners in: Palestine, Iraq, Somalia, Tunisia, Morocco, Lebanon, Sudan, Kenya, Mali, Bangladesh, Benin, Sri Lanka, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan, Indonesia, Kosovo, Albania, Bosnia, Ghana, Turkey, Jordan, Ethiopia, Gambia, Chad and Senegal.
The Qurbani project focused particularly on the refugees in countries of asylum, whose circumstances forced them to leave their home countries such as Syrians, Rohingyans and refugees in Africa.
Upon completion of the project, Executive Directorate of Qatar Charity thanked all its donors for their generous support and tremendous efforts to make Eid day a special day in the lives of those less privileged. And extending its wishes for the occasion of Eid Al Adha.
It is worth mentioning that about 1000 orphans and children in Qatar benefited from Eid gifts, while 11,000 were reached in 22 countries around the world.
