Doha: Qatar Charity (QC) has announced the launch of an urgent relief campaign for those affected by the worsening humanitarian situation in Yemen.
The ‘Yemen ... We are with you’ campaign aims to collect over QR36m in the first stage to provide immediate assistance in the areas of food and medicine for 1.26 million people across Yemen.
The campaign under the auspices of Sheikh Abdulaziz bin Jassim Al Thani, QC General Supervisor of quality projects in Yemen, involves the distribution of food baskets containing basic food items, fresh food and children’s milk and food and the distribution of medical disposables and medicines.
The crisis experienced by Yemen in the past few months has exacerbated the humanitarian situation in various fields, particularly those that affect the daily life of citizens.
Hundreds of thousands of people are without water and electricity, food and fuel are scarce and there has been almost total collapse of medical services due to electrical outages and lack of medicines and medical disposables.
Significant internal displacement from major cities to rural areas has also increased human suffering.
In a statement, Sheikh Abdulaziz urged residents and citizens of Qatar to donate to the campaign to help alleviate the suffering of the affected, noting the exceptional circumstances experienced by Yemen for several months now.
The campaign provides baskets comprising five major types of food supplies for 1.09 million people, infant milk for 85,910 children and fresh food for 5,100 people in hospitals, in addition to medical disposables for 40,000 people and medicines for 30,000 people.
People can contribute to the campaign by donating the value of products (food baskets, cans of milk, fresh foods, medical disposables or drugs) directly to the QC head office and branches across the state, QC collectors stationed in shopping malls, via the QC website qcharity.org/yemen, or by bank transfers.
You can also donate via Ooredoo or Vodafone text message by sending (YN) to 92429 to donate QR1,000, 92428 to donate QR500, 92642 to donate QR100, 92632 to donate QR50 and 92133 to donate QR25.
QC has implemented several relief campaigns for the Yemeni people between 2008 and 2014 in the areas of health, food and shelter, at a total cost of QR27m, benefitting 318,729 people.
About QR6.3m was spent on food for the benefit of 187,157 people and QR4.9m in the field of health, benefitting 8,105 patients.
In the area of shelter and non-food items, QC spent QR4.89m for the benefit of 13,645 people. These projects benefitted 109,822 people at a total cost of QR10.69m.
QC has been working in Yemen since 1994 and provides services to the needy in all regions and in multiple areas, including health, water, education and social welfare, in addition to the establishment and furnishing of multi-service centres, seasonal projects, relief projects and economic empowerment projects for poor families, young people and women.
QC is also implementing many projects in Yemen in partnership and cooperation with humanitarian organisations of the United Nations as well as being a member of the Forum for International Organisations in Yemen. QNA
