DOHA: A United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (Unicef) delegation visited Qatar Charity’s (QC) offices in Pakistan to review joint projects implemented for the benefit of the displaced people from North Waziristan region, near the Afghan borders.
The delegation comprised four experts in the field of water and health facilities.
In cooperation with Unicef, QC is implementing projects related to water, facilities at schools and medical centres in Rajanpur and Rahim Yar Khan districts.
The QC office organised awareness activities focused on the countryside, such as meetings with parents, teachers and students to highlight the importance of using drinking water, having health facilities and sewage systems, and specifying certain places for garbage disposal.
QC also distributed to the participants bags which contained tools for personal hygiene.
Last year, QC drilled 1,500 wells in the four provinces -- Khyber, Punjab, Sindh and Baluchistan, at a cost of QR7m.
The QC office last year also built 21 mosques in Kashmir and the rest of Pakistan’s provinces at a cost of over QR2.5m.
It also built a multi-service complex and a training centre at a cost of QR2.2m.
QC implemented 110 economic empowerment projects for the benefit of the poor categories.
Instead of receiving aid, the beneficiaries would be able to make their own money and become financially independent. The projects were implemented at a cost of QR4.07m.
Faisal Al Fahida, Director of Operations, QC, said, “We have partnership and cooperation agreements with so many international humanitarian organisations -- Unicef placed on top. “The message we convey through our main office and its branches in Pakistan is that we seek to spread hope and make all the needy people around the world happy.”
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