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Qatar Charity has organized a series of educational, sports and
entertainment events for 500 sponsored orphans in Hargeysa, Somaliland.
The events were organized by QC’s Somalia office and included running,
races and football.
“These events come in the context of QC’s efforts to provide better
humanitarian assistance to orphans; sponsoring them is not enough, we
need to be providing these children with recreational activities and
sports in an attempt to incorporate them into the community,” said
Jassim Abdullah Al Jassim, Director of Social Welfare at QC.
The events were opened with a speech by Mohammed Hussein Omar, program
director for QC’s Somalia office, and were attended by other QC
officials, as well as a number of key community figures, caregivers and
officials from local associations, who helped supervise the orphans
along with mothers and grandparents of the children.
A number of educational lectures were also carried out; providing the
orphans’ mothers with guidance on caring for their children.
The activities are part of QC’s current strategy and direction for the
educational care of orphans and the annual plan for the Somalia office
for 2012.
QC Somalia plans to repeat this kind of event on a regular basis in
order to ensure that their 5,000 sponsored orphans, teachers, preachers,
disables, students and members of poor families are encouraged to become
active members of their communities.
QC Somalia also offers orphans help with the costs of study and training
programs.
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