DOHA: Qatar Red Crescent (QRC) has finalised the first phase of the economic empowerment project for poor families in Jerusalem, with QR300,000 funding from the General Directorate of Endowments.
The project is implemented by QRC’s representational office in West Bank and the Zakat Alquds Committee
Signed last June and lasting 10 months, the project aims primarily to help the target families find a stable source of income, improve their standard of living as well as economic, social, and psychological conditions; create more job opportunities and employ more labour in local community; and reduce poverty and unemployment rates among Jerusalem’s Arab population.
Having empowered 46 families so far, the project pursues social development by establishing small income-generating projects in various fields.
Eleven families received five sheep each in addition to feed and water troughs, so that they can sell meat and milk products on the local market.
Thirty-five sewing machines were distributed to poor families whose breadwinners are widows, so that they can generate some money and afford the cost of living.
In coordination with the Zakat Alquds Committee, a survey was conducted to identify beneficiaries from among the poorest families and families with orphans, who were given priority in receiving the assistance, increasing humanitarian needs with the approach of the winter. The Peninsula
