Officials of the Orientalist Museum and Qatar Charity during the donation.
DOHA: The Orientalist Museum has donated QR12,000 to Qatar Charity, raised through the sale of tote bags created from recycled art collateral and part of the Museum’s ongoing Afrehom project.
Afrehom — which means ‘make them happy’ in Arabic — looks at ways to recycle art material for charity. Initiated by Kabir Abdulrazak, the Orientalist Museum’s Head of Operations, and Fatema Sorore, the Orientalist Museum’s Head of Events, the project’s first undertaking transformed Art of Travel exhibit banners into one-of-a-kind tote bags.
In two months the several hundred tote bags have been sold out. The funds raised will go directly to Qatar Charity’s blind children project.
“On behalf of Qatar Charity, I would like to express my thanks and gratitude to the administration of the Orientalist Museum for their generous donation and support for projects of humanitarian cause that target people with disabilities, mainly blind and visually impaired people. This is a clear indication of their sense of responsibility towards the Qatari society,” said Sheikha al-Muftah from Qatar Charity.
Abdulrazak said: “It seemed like a good idea to re-cycle the colorful banners from the exhibition, so we decided to convert them into Tote bags, and donate the proceeds to a worthy cause.”
“The collaboration with Qatar Charity brings the recycled graphic banners to life,” said Sorore.
The Orientalist Museum has a number of upcoming Afrehom initiatives, to be announced soon.
“This is our first initiative in the field of charity projects, and we hope the Orientalist Museum, through the museum-charity organization partnership becomes an important educational resource for the larger community of blind or visually impaired children, who must have access to the world’s visual art culture,” said Museum Director, Dr Olga Nefedova. The Peninsula
