Qatar Charity
| ؤسسة قطر الخيرية (Arabic) | |
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| Founded at | Qatar |
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NGO Nonprofit organization |
| Headquarters | Qatar |
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Region
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Global |
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Official language
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Arabic English Urdu |
| Slogan | Trusted partners in delivering hope |
| Website | https://www.qcharity.org/en/global |
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Formerly called
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Qatar Charitable Society |
Qatar Charity (QC) is an NGO founded in 1992 for the development of the Qatari community and those communities in need. The QC projects address issues ranging from disaster relief to income generation initiatives, to education and health care. It acts locally (and popularly) with the general public with counters setup specifically in various shopping malls in Qatar.
Once known as "Qatar Charitable Society", Qatar Charity is today Qatar’s largest NGO, one of the non-governmental leading charities in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and at a global level. Sheikh Hamad bin Nasser al-Thani is the current chairman of Qatar Charity, which is active in more than 25 countries and has subsidiary offices in UK, Pakistan, and Indonesia.
As of 2015[update], Qatar Charity is headed by its president,Hamad bin Nasser al-Thani, and its CEO, Yousef bin Ahmed al-Kuwari.
Among QC’s major long-term projects are “Tayf,” a charity program to collect in-kind donations, and the annual “Iftar” project for the month of Ramadan, which aims to provide meals to thousands of fasting Muslims in targeted countries. In July 2015, Vodafone Qatar and Qatar Charity created a partnership. Employees of Vodafone helped feed workers at camps in the Ras Laffan Industrial City with Iftar meals during Ramadan. Vodafone promised to donate $275 per hour that each employee volunteers. The donations will go to Qatar Charity’s Family Sponsorship program. The program helps low-income families throughout the Gulf area. Recently, Qatar Charity has also launched a website (“Travel and Aid”) to attract participation in charitable work.
Qatar Charity is at the forefront of relief work in the face of major natural disasters. This was the case in Nepal, where Qatar Charity distributed $100.000 in food, blankets, mattresses and other non-food items including hygiene kits. In Sierra Leone, the charity supported the purchase of vital equipment at an Ebola Treatment Center (ETC) in Lunsar. It also played a part in the 2008–2009 Gaza Strip aid delivering around $140,000 worth of medical supplies. In other international efforts, it had raised around QAR 2 million as relief for the 2010 Pakistan floods.
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