Qatar Charity volunteers distributing iftar meals.
DOHA: Qatar Charity (QC), through four central kitchens, continuously prepares 2,600 complete iftar meals daily to distribute them to needy families or provide them to its Ramadan tables organized for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in various areas and camps in northern Syria and Daraa.
Faisal Al Fuhaida, executive director of the Charity’s operations department, said the Ramadan projects have been provided to the displaced and needy people in Syria in response to their urgent need for assistance and food, especially in this holy month, as well as to cover the great shortage of food.
As Qatar Charity is keen to provide Iftar meals to the largest number of the affected people inside the Syrian, it has set up 4 Ramadan field kitchens at the beginning of the holy month to prepare fresh Iftar meals, including rice, meat, chicken and yogurt.
The kitchens have been set up in various areas of northern Syria such as Idlib and Aleppo in addition to Daraa and is expected to benefit 8,000 fasting persons during the holy month of Ramadan.
Al Fuhaida thanked the philanthropists in Qatar for their continuous support to affected Syrians, especially in the holy month of Ramadan. He added that work is underway to distribute food baskets to hundreds of affected families and internally displaced persons in a number of provinces and areas inside Syria at a cost of QR3mn in order to secure their food needs in the month of Rama dan, and is expected to be distributed soon.
“Feed a Fasting” project was implemented in Turkey in coordination with official bodies and local partners. The project benefited 40,000 people.
