Head of ‘A Flower Each Spring’ Program Dr Saif Ali Al Hajri (left) and Director Department of Endowments Dr. Sheikh Khalid bin Mohammed bin Ghanem Al Thani addressing a press conference.
Doha: The Department of Endowments at the Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs has announced its continued support to ‘A Flower Each Spring’ programme.
The programme aims at raising awareness of the importance of vegetation cover in preserving the environment, and building a positive behaviour towards it among generations. Arfaj flower was chosen as a flower for this year.
Director Department of Endowments Dr. Sheikh Khalid bin Mohammed bin Ghanem Al Thani expressed his happiness with this continuous environmental partnership with “A Flower Each Spring” programme. He called for intensifying efforts to preserve the integrity of green spaces, gardens and places that contain local plants, considering them a national wealth that requires providing everything necessary to preserve them.
Dr. Sheikh Khalid said that this programme is consistent with the objectives of the Family and Childhood Endowment Fund, which aims to spread environmental awareness among children by holding various events and activities that increase their environmental awareness.
Head of ‘A Flower Each Spring’ Program Dr Saif Ali Al Hajri thanked the Department of Endowments for its support to the program.
He said that it is an educational, behavioural programme that targets the entire community, especially the children and the family, because of the health effects of nature in order to achieve sustainable development.
The programme seeks every year to celebrate a plant that abounds in the Qatari environment, and includes many activities, including: friends of nature, explorers, country’s bird, everyone loves the sea, nature preservers, the green library, the green tent, and other activities.
Last year, 6,100 people especially school students benefited from various activities held under ‘A Flower Each Spring’ Program.
