DOHA: Qatar Charity has managed to send a relief convoy into the besieged Yarmouk Camp, easing the suffering of the resident Palestinian families.
Three thousand, two hundred and thirty food parcels were distributed, at a total cost of around QAR 620,000.
The food parcels contained basic food items such as sugar, rice, oil, lentils, pasta, barley, tea, dates and cheese.
Ibrahim Ali, Head of Relief Department at QC said: “The relief efforts provided by Qatar Charity in collaboration with the European Wafaa Campaign are the embodiment of the organization’s humanitarian role, striving to meet the most urgent humanitarian needs of the beneficiaries.”
“In the Yarmouk Camp the Palestinian population suffers from severe hunger and deprivation,” he added.
Ali explained that the success of the distribution is in line with QC’s track record of providing urgent aid in record time. Days before, QC was the first humanitarian organization to provide relief in the Yemen city of Aden, succeeding in entering the area, where many others had failed.
The residents of Yarmouk expressed their thanks and gratitude to QC and donors from the state of Qatar for their significant effort, noting that the distribution had helped ease their hunger and give them hope where previously they had felt themselves abandoned and alone.
QC has also provided emergency relief to Syrians in the Damascus countryside, in light of the worsening humanitarian condition there due to the blockade which has led to the lack of basic needs. The relief included food and medicine for the benefit of 20,000 beneficiaries, at a total cost of around QAR 1,250,000.
The project also provided food assistance to around 1,000 families unable to leave their homes, with baskets containing 20kg of flour, jam, cheese, olives, sugar and rice, at a cost of QAR 800 per basket, for the benefit of around 15,000 people.
As well as food support, the project seeks to save lives; reducing the mortality rate of the wounded and the sick, via the distribution of medicines and medical consumables to three health centers in the city which treat the sick and those wounded during the bombing, as well as the continued provision of health services in hospitals located in the city of Douma. The items provided cover the areas of general surgery, orthopaedics, blood and anesthesia, at a rate of QAR 10,000 per center.
Relief projects for displaced and refugee Syrians have benefitted 4.2 million people, at a total cost of QAR 205 million, from April 2011 to January 2015.
The projects have covered the areas of education, health, food and shelter, with 59% of the projects directed to the Syrian interior at a cost of around QAR 121.2 million, and the remainder supporting refugees in neighboring countries; 13% to those in Jordan, amounting to QAR 26,889,000, 17% to Lebanon, amounting to QAR 34.66 million, 9% to Turkey, amounting to QAR 19 million and 2%, amounting to QAR 3.293 million, distributed across Iraq and other countries containing high numbers of Syrian refugees.
QC also spent around QAR 61.4 million on shelter and non-food items for the benefit of around 419,000 refugee and displaced Syrians, implementing several projects, including the establishment of villages for the displaced, rent for housing, blankets, refrigerators, toiletries, fans, Eid clothing, household items and mattresses.
