(MENAFN- Jordan News Agency) Amman, Nov. 19 (Petra) - The Jordan Hashemite Charity Organization (JHCO) and the Qatar Charity (QC) have started implementing "Warm Winter" campaign in various parts of the Kingdom targeting the underprivileged Jordanian families and Syrian refugees.
The project aims to distribute coupouns to buy food, fuel, clothes and blankets to the low-income families in the local market, in cooperation with civil charities and the National Aid Fund (NAF), according to a press statement issued by the JHCO on Thursday.
During the launching ceremony, attended by QC CEO, Saleh Marri, JHCO Assistant Secretary General, Mohammed Kilani, said: "Our partnership with Qatar Charity aims to implement a large number of projects under various circumstances and to target needy families and refugees."
This campaign, was launched on Thursday, continues the "Warm Winter" campaign kicked off last year to alleviate the winter-related burdens on needy families, which coincides this year with the continued Covid-19 pandemic and its impacts, according to Kilani.
For his part, QC's director in Jordan, Dr. Munther Hajj Hassan, said the campaign aims to provide the essential winter needs covering food, shelter, health, education and non-food items, by providing a number of products needed by the target groups.
On the scope of winter aid, Kilani said the aid includes food baskets, winter clothes, blankets, stoves, heating fuel, as well as providing the necessary medicines and medical supplies, at the peak of the spread of seasonal diseases, as well as providing means of prevention and sterilization to fight Covid-19.
Hajj Hassan praised the cooperation and "strategic" partnership with the JHCO, which provides all support and assistance to Qatar Charity's efforts in the various humanitarian fields undertaken by its representative in Jordan and in facilitating procedures to reach the beneficiaries directly.
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