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.
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Management
As of 2015, Qatar Charity is headed by its president,Hamad bin Nasser al-Thani, and its CEO, Yousef bin Ahmed al-Kuwari.
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Major projects
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.
In Niger, Qatar Charity is supporting local efforts to combat drought and improve the overall desperate conditions in the villages of Sowna and Aichign by funding the installation of modern solar-powered artesian wells. In southern Mali, it opened shelters for displaced children. During 2014, Qatar Charity's long-standing commitment to the people of Somalia was renewed as the charity provided QAR 25.5 million ($7 million) in life-saving relief, recovery and rehabilitation programs and activities. QC launched a project to construct the village of 'Doha Alkhair' in Djibouti at an estimated cost of QAR 4 million in September 2015. One-hundred houses, basic amenities and public utilities were among the planned infrastructure.
QC recently sent relief convoys to refugees in South Sudan, and it is currently funding programs in support of Syrian refugees in Lebanon. As of October 2015, the organization has carried out four housing projects in Syria, during which it has repaired and built new villages. The most notable housing project is Al Rayyan, an under-construction village designed to accommodate 7,000 people. QC has also deployed around 400 pre-fabricated housing units in Syria.
Moreover, the charity actively promotes engagement, employment and enterprise development for young people in the Arab world. One of the latest such efforts includes the renovation project of Al-Quds University at a cost of QAR 4.5 million.
Programs
Qatar Charity has 12 charitable programs in addition to the other programs that they cooperate in with other partners.
Shop And Aid
Shop And Aid is a program that helps individuals to donate for Qatar Charity works by buying several products from the internet and the profit will go to Qatar Charity efforts.
Dal ala alkheer
Dal ala alkheer is a program where individuals can share different cases over the internet from the organization website and then win points as a reward. the program aim is to help individuals to donate to the organization without spending any money The name of the program means "the one who tells about good" it was taken from a quote for prophet Muhmmed That say "God reward the one who tells others about good the same reward as the one who actually made it".
One Heart
Local documentary produced by the Qatar Charity Society and represented his idea by a group of Qatari youth excellence in the areas of advocacy and media and Message Board and poetic adventures charity and entertainment filmed in the turkey to the definition of the difficult circumstances experienced by the population there.
Tayef
Tayef is a map-based web application that helps donors to connect people in need in Qatar.
Travel And Aid
Travel And Aid is a booking website for flights and hotels that help individuals and organization to book flights and hotels and donate to the organization with the broker fee for each booking
Cooperation with other Charities
As one of the leading Gulf-origin nongovernmental organizations, Qatar Charity has made many partnerships with many of the lead Charities in the world.
Cooperation with Unicef
Qatar Charity has many projects with UNICEF as they have signed a memorandum of understanding in 2013 to develop a framework that aims to co-operation in humanitarian response to disasters in Africa and the middle east.
Cooperation with UNHCR
Qatar Charity and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has signed partnership and co-operation agreement to provide aid to Myanmar Muslims in 2013.
Cooperation with Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation against polio
in 2013 Qatar Charity has signed an agreement with Bill and Melinda Gates foundation to raise funds in support of a six-year plan backed by the World Health Organization to eradicate polio globally.
Cooperation with Vodafone
Qatar Charity has signed a partnership agreement with Vodafone in August 2010 to create and implement charitable and socially beneficial initiatives.
Financing terrorism
On February 11, 2015 Sudan Tribune reported controversial statements by Yahia Sadam, an official of the Minni Minnawi Sudanese liberation movement who accused Qatar of endorsing the genocide perpetrated by Sudanese militiamen in Darfur by funneling money though the Sudanese branch of Qatar Charity, active in Darfur since 2010. Sadam claimed that Qatar Charity, which has purportedly signed a cooperation agreement with the Sudanese troops, was "building housing complexes in remote and isolated areas to harbor and train extremist groups." Those camps are believed to be hosting ISIS fighters, a concern voiced by attendees from the intelligence community at a March 2015 event at the United States Institute for Peace.
Al-Kuwari was instrumental in the establishment, design, and content of www.islamweb.net, a site which describes itself as "designed to enrich the viewers' knowledge and appreciation of Islam." Islamweb has featured controversial content, including posts in support of the controversial Doha-based theologian Yusuf al-Qaradawi and claims that Islamic sects other than Sunni Islam are "false" for their "incorrect beliefs about the companions of the Prophet."
Cables leaked through WikiLeaks show that Qatar Charity was an organization of concern to the U.S. Government for "its suspect activities abroad and reported links with extremists" and its "intent and willingness to provide financial support to terrorist organizations willing to attack US persons or interests." The cables were released years before Al-Kuwari became CEO of Qatar Charity but controversies surrounding Qatar Charity have persisted under Al-Kuwari's leadership.
In 2013, while Al-Kuwari was CEO of Qatar Charity, a Washington Institute for Near East Policy report emerged that Qatar Charity assistance had made its way to the Syrian Islamic Front, an umbrella group of powerful jihadist organizations operating in the Syrian Civil War. The Qatar Charity logo reportedly appeared in the video showing Syrian Islamic Front affiliates distributing the Qatar Charity-labelled aid. In 2013, Iranian news agency FARS reported that Qatar had wired $5 billion to Syrian rebel groups through Qatar Charity.
Qatar Charity has also been widely criticized for serving as a tool of the Qatari government in spreading its influence under Al-Kuwari's leadership. In May 2016, Hamad bin Nasser al-Thani, a member of the Qatari royal family, and Yusuf Ahmed Al-Kuwari traveled to Italy, where Qatar Charity reportedly donated 25 million euros over three years for the construction of mosques and Islamic centers. These donations led to questions over how religious instruction will be implemented in the religious centers. In 2016, Italian Senator Giacomo Stucchi sent a petition to the Italian government to investigate the sources of the funds from Qatar Charity used to finance a project in Northern Italy due to concerns of Qatar Charity's reputation and activities.
References
External links
- Qatar Charity website (English language)
- Regular updates on the work being undertaken by Qatar Charity
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