Qatar Charity Executes QR.25 Million Development Projects in the Comoros

Doha, January 25 (QNA) - Qatar Charity (QC) plans to execute a series of development projects in the Comoros during 2012. The projects which cover the sectors of education, health, housing, social and economic empowerment and infrastructure are estimated at more than 500 projects and are to cost more than 25 million Qatari Riyals. The QC explained in a press release on Wednesday that these projects include the construction and equipping of 30 class rooms distributed to schools across Moheli Island accommodating 1,200 students, a hospital and 50 residential units, at a cost of almost 14 million riyals, as a first stage. QC also plans to launch 430 projects of economic empowerment for income-generating, to support poor families by loans to establish micro-economic projects at an estimated cost of more than 1,25 Million Qatari Riyals. In the area of infrastructure, Qatar Charity Society will execute a number of projects including the construction of a building for holding official meetings in the Moheli, maintenance of the road between the cities of Wanani and Naamachoa (17 km) at a total cost estimated at more than 8,8 Million Qatari Riyals. The society noted that the construction of the Regional Hospital is one of the most important projects that Qatar Charity will be executing in the current year on the Moheli island, noting that the project, on an area of ??26,000 square meters, will serve all residents of the island estimated at 70,000 people. According to the press release, Qatar Charity will Handover, early next week, to the Government of the Comoros a number of health and education projects carried out last year, including 26 primary schools in the Moheli Island and 4 equipped clinics. QC opened a field office in the capital of the Comoros, Moroni, in order to strengthen the capacity of overseeing development and humanitarian projects intended to be executed during the coming years. Qatar is leading the development drive in the Comoros, especially after the Donors' Conference hosted by Doha in March 2010, which sought to assist the country in building its economic structure and starting the development process after witnessing a kind of political stability in recent years. (QNA)