(MENAFN- The Peninsula) The Peninsula
DOHA: Qatar Charity (QC) has launched its 'Below Zero winter campaign under the slogan 'Share the Warmth to help the displaced, refugees and the needy in nine countries cope with the cold of winter.
The campaign was launched under the supervision and presence of the Regulatory Authority for Charitable Activities (RACA), from the Al Bayli Camp for Syrian refugees on the Turkish-Syrian border, said a release.
The campaign aims to raise QR66m to provide the necessary winter needs for 800,000 people in three main areas, which are food, shelter and heating. The targeted people will be given food baskets, winter clothes, blankets, heaters, fuel, tents, caravans (prefabricated housing units), mattresses, pillows and hygiene items.
The campaign focuses on the displaced, refugees and those affected in countries going through exceptional circumstances such as Syria, Palestine and Iraq. It also concentrates on the poor in Tunisia, Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, Pakistan, Albania and Bosnia and Herzegovina, where temperatures fall below zero degree.
Consequently, the underprivileged people face a number of challenges such as the damage to shelter tents, lack of heating facilities and fuel, shortage of winter clothes and blankets, and scarcity of food, in addition to suffering from diseases associated with severely cold winter. Such situations might cause deaths or the spread of diseases, especially among children and the elderly, if they are not able to find the necessary heating facilities.
Speaking at the launching ceremony of 'Below Zero campaign, Nasser Al-Mughaseb, director of the Relief and International Cooperation Department at Qatar Charity, said 'as winter approaches every year, the suffering of the poor, refugees and the displaced, living in temporary tents and shelters, increases, especially, with the fall of heavy rains and snow.
He pointed out that there are millions of such people, who can not cope with the cold of winter. Therefore, Qatar Charity launched its seasonal campaign in this time as a brotherly duty and responsibility towards the vulnerable in order to provide food, shelter and heating aid for those in need.
On this occasion, a delegation from Qatar Charity, a number of social activists, media persons and social media influencers have distributed 2,850 food baskets to all the families living in the camp. Some 20 trucks loaded with food baskets sent into Syria to be distributed to the displaced Syrians, while other 60 trucks will be dispatched for the same purpose by the end of December.
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