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Qatar Charity (QC) has announced the launch of Eid Al-Adha campaign entitled ‘Qurbani Gifts’.
The campaign aims to provide more than 55,000 Qurbani cattle (sheep and cows) in 30 countries in Asia, Africa and Europe and is expected to benefit more than one million people.
Besides the distribution of Qurbani cattle, the campaign aims to distribute Eid clothes and gifts to orphan in Qatar and other countries.
The campaign in Qatar aims to distribute 5,500 Qurbani cattle benefiting more than 65,000 people. The Qurbani cattle will be delivered to low-income families, widows, orphans and their families, and foreign farm workers.
Gifts will also be distributed to 390 orphan children, while 600 people will benefit from the Eid clothes.
Besides the ‘Qurbani Gifts’ campaign, several recreational and educational activities will be held in different malls, from which more than 4,000 people will benefit from it.
Outside Qatar, the campaign targets 29 countries in Asia, Africa and Europe with the aim to provide more than 50,000 Qurbani cattle for about 964,000 people.
This year, Qatar Charity will focus on countries going through hard times, targeting the distribution of more than 3,000 Qurbani cattle in Yemen. More than 2,000 cattle will be delivered to Syrian refugees in Turkey, 875 in Chad, 1,750 in Palestine and 475 in Iraq.
Faisal Rashid al Fehaida, assistant to the CEO Operations and International partnerships Sector at (QC), said, “Qatar Charity attaches great importance to the Qurbani project outside Qatar because it brings joy to vulnerable families, orphans, widows and those with special needs on Eid day.”
Fehaida said that this year the focus is on the refugees whose circumstances have forced them to move away from their home countries, such as Syrian refugees in Turkey, Lebanon and elsewhere, Somalis in Dadaab camps in Kenya and Rohingyas In Bangladesh. The campaign comes as a humanitarian act to support refugees and displaced people.
Qatar Charity provides its donors with a wide range of options with regard to their ‘Qurbani’ donations, regarding those who benefit from them and where to offer them.
To contribute to the ‘Qurbani Gifts’ campaign, donors can reach Qatar Charity via its website (QCH.QA/ADHA), the QC mobile app, SMS to 92652, hotline: 44667711, QC’s stands in malls across Qatar or QC offices and branches.
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24/07/2019
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