More than 5,000 students graduate from Qatar Center for Training
1,500 orphans, children, disabled persons and poor families are sponsored by QC in Kosovo
Doha: For the past 15 years, Qatar Charity (QC) has implemented thousands of development, relief and social projects at a cost of QR50m in Kosovo from which 500,000 people have benefited.
QC’s projects there included building mosques and shelters, implementing income-generating projects, digging wells, building water networks, implementing educational and training projects, and social and educational programmes. All of QC’s projects aimed at supporting the poor groups of the society and developing it.
Sponsorship
QC sponsors different kinds of categories such as orphans, students, disabled persons, and poor families. In Kosovo, the number of sponsored people is 1,500. QC offers them specialized training and human development courses, health awareness activities; it organizes a weekly forum for orphans; and it builds and reforms the houses of the orphans so as to provide them with a respectful place to live in with their families.
Training and Education
QC has established Qatar Center for Training in Kosovo which offers its educational and training services to the different groups of the societies; focusing on students, QC’s sponsored orphans and recent university graduates. More than 5,000 students (both males and females) graduated from the center. They were specialized in various fields such as foreign languages, programming, designing, Autodesk program, human development and management.
Qatar Center for Training made sure to improve and develop itself. It became the number 1 and only center in Kosovo that has an international license in Autodesk. The center gives internationally accredited certificates to its graduates. It has also received a license for the computer training programs it offers. In addition, it was evaluated as an A center for its management quality, and an A center for its use of English material and programs. This center has also become the first center in Kosovo in teaching Arabic; Kosovans and some international associations’ foreign workers train there.
Economic Empowerment
QC has implemented various income-generating projects depending on the targeted groups, and where they live in order to make sure the projects meet with the needs of the society and fit with the surrounding environment. The most benefiting categories are the orphans, poor families, unemployed, and university graduates.
The development projects included funding shops for groceries, clothes, candies; offices for designing and photography; greenhouses; and ownership of dairy cows and sheep. The projects were not focused on one area; they were implemented across the country covering more than half of its geographical map.
Healthcare
QC has implemented multiple projects that target the health of the Kosovans. For example, it inaugurated campaigns for public medical examinations for orphans, its representatives visited the patients, it provided medications, and its surgeons performed surgeries on a group of people with hearing disabilities.
Seasonal Projects
QC offered various aids and implemented different seasonal projects for the benefit of the people. In Ramadan, QC distributed food baskets; in Eid, it distributed Al Fitr charity (sadaqat al Fitr) and distributed Udheiya (sacrifice meat).
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