DOHA: Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) has launched the Warm Winter Campaign 2024-2025, under the slogan 'Their Warmth Is Our Duty'.
QRCS has been launching its annual charity campaign during this time each year.
The campaign aims to implement a series of 40 winterization aid projects, with a target of 179,000 beneficiaries in 13 countries. As the winter approaches, bringing cold weather, rain, snow, and storms, millions of refugees, internally displaced people (IDPs) and poor people around the world are left prone to hunger, disease, and limited resources.
In a press conference today on this occasion, Secretary-Ge0neral of QRCS Faisal Mohamed Al Emadi called on "kindhearted and benevolent donors" to support the annual charity campaign, and emphasized the importance of fulfilling the brotherly and humanitarian duty to contribute to this drive, which is aimed at providing food, shelter, heating, medical care, and other forms of aid, to help those in need weather the harsh winter with dignity.In his remarks, Al Emadi referred to the ongoing tragedy faced by the people of the Gaza Strip, noting its expansion to regions like Lebanon. He stated that the Qatar Red Crescent has allocated part of its campaign to provide relief to those affected in Lebanon, aided by its local representative office.
The QRCS Secretary-General stressed the campaign's significance by stating, "these facts show the importance of this campaign, and other humanitarian and relief interventions, to alleviate the suffering of affected people, try to meet their needs, and enhance their resilience and steadfastness." For his part Director of Communication and Fundraising Division at QRCS Mohamed Ahmed Al Bishri explained some facts and information about the Warm Winter Campaign involving 13 countries namely Qatar, Palestine (including the Gaza Strip and the West Bank), Yemen, Syria, Niger, Sudan, Somalia, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Lebanon, Jordan, Albania, and Kosovo.
He outlined the various interventions to be implemented by QRCS, highlighting that it will "include a wide range of aid, such as winter clothes, blankets, mattresses, food parcels, drinking water, infant formula, medications, medical supplies, household furniture/appliances, heating oil, home construction/restoration, bread, and sponsorship of orphans." Al Bishri added that the purpose of these interventions is to largely meet the winter needs of poor and displaced families in the targeted areas, with a special focus on students, patients, infants, orphans, and older persons. These projects will be implemented by our foreign offices in some host countries, in coordination with fellow National Societies and local partners, to ensure the effective and timely provision of aid, up to the highest international standards.
The QRCS allows donations to the projects of this campaign through all means, which vary between the website, the donor service number or home collection, and bank transfers to its accounts.