The Jassim and Hamad bin Jassim Charitable Foundation (HBJ Foundation) has earmarked QR6m for distribution of cash and food among poor people in Qatar during upcoming holy month of Ramadan.
Some 3,000 Qatari and expatriate families at the rate of 60 percent and 40 percent respectively will benefit from the charity projects and the distribution will begin from Ramadan 1, said Fawaz Al Shammari, Head of Supporting Services at HBJ Foundation.
Al Shammari was speaking at a press conference held to announce the Ramadan programmes of the Foundation.
HBJ Foundation will spend more than QR13m on the projects of Ramadan in Qatar and abroad this year, he added. The Foundation earmarked QR6.7m for the activities and projects inside Qatar and QR6.5m for abroad during Ramadan.
More than 10,000 fasting people will be offered Iftar meals in a tent at Al Mirqab Al Jadid and 3,000 people will be provided Iftar meals at their homes with a total cost of project amounting to QR700,000.
Regarding projects abroad, Al Shamari said: “The Foundation is distributing food baskets worth QR5.5m in 12 Arab and African countries. More than 2.2 million people are expected to benefit from this project. The beneficiary countries are Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, Mauritania, Indonesia, Pakistan, Yemen, Morocco, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Iraq and Myanmar."
First time, the Foundation will set up Iftar tents in Sri Lanka and Indonesia.
Within a few days, 10 tonnes of dates worth QR1m will be dispatched to countries including Pakistan, China, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Malaysia, South Korea, India, Nepal and Indonesia. The dates will be distributed in coordination with embassies of Qatar to the beneficiary countries.
The countries were selected for the projects as per the statistics issued by the United Nations according to their per capital income and number of poor people in each country.
The priorities were given to the countries affected by war and natural disasters like droughts, floods as QR1m had been allocated for each Ethiopia and Somalia.
