(MENAFN- The Peninsula) Doha: As part of the immediate humanitarian response to the Beirut Port explosion, an aircraft of the Qatar Amiri Air Force left Doha today morning, carrying relief aid cargo sent by Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) as a solidarity from the people of Qatar to the brotherly people of Lebanon.
As the aircraft arrived in Beirut, it was received by the staff of QRCS's representation mission in Lebanon, in cooperation with the Lebanese Red Cross. They coordinate with the embassy of Qatar in Lebanon to facilitate the entry and handover of the cargo.
Consisting of tons of relief and medical aid, the cargo is the first of successive batches of aid to be sent under the Heart for Beirut, a humanitarian campaign launched by QRCS to provide health, shelter, and food aid to alleviate the impact of the disaster on the affected vulnerable people and support the efforts of the Lebanese Red Cross.
Together with the host National Society, QRCS's mission is providing food meals and other urgent aid for the affected families, in order to help them to withstand the current ordeal.
QRCS launched the Heart for Beirut campaign, with the authorization of the Regulatory Authority for Charitable Activities, to raise donation of QR 50 million to provide urgent needs and assistance to the injured and afflicted and contribute to saving the lives of 300,000 people of the injured and afflicted in Beirut.
QRCS stated that the planned intervention plan in Lebanon is divided into several stages, including the urgent response, in which urgent food will be provided, temporary shelter for the affected families, and the strengthening of health facilities for 55,000 beneficiaries. The medium-term response consists of providing monthly food needs and cash assistance for 25,000 people, in addition to repairing damaged homes. Then recovery and capacity building stage includes raising the efficiency of health services, building medical capacity for 300,000 people.
QRCS called for donating to this campaign via its website.
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