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Zakat Department provides aid worth QR16.8m in January

Published: 14 Mar 2023 - 08:13 am | Last Updated: 14 Mar 2023 - 08:13 am

QNA

Doha: Zakat Fund Department at the Ministry of Endowments and Islamic Affairs (Awqaf) announced that it has provided aid worth QR16,814,589 during February 2023, benefiting 660 families who are eligible for assistance within the State of Qatar. 

It included periodic and lump-sum aid; all of these are aids that the Zakat Department disburses to the eligible registered families, in accordance with the legal controls and approved mechanisms.

These amounts were distributed among the periodic aids that are provided on a monthly basis to eligible families with a value of QR9,442,840, and lump-sum aids, which are one-time aids as needed, with a value of QR 7,371,749.