Qatar Charity Inaugurates Orphan House in Yemen

Doha, May 25 (QNA) -Qatar Charity has laid the foundation stone to build house to take care and rehabilitate of 50 orphans aging from one year to 15 in Sanaa , the capital at a total cost of one million Qatari Riyals. QC said in a press statement issued here on Saturday that during the QC's delegation's recent visit to Yemen led by HE Sheikh Abdulaziz Bin Jassim Al Thani ,the QC general assembly member and the general inspector of the qualitative projects in Yemen, the foundation stone of the aforesaid project was laid . The project is expected to be carried out in a year and a half . The two-storey project includes bedrooms and a living room, a hall for the teaching of the Holy Quran and its Sciences, plus shopping stores and apartments to be rented as offices or housing as well as offices for the management of the complex's waqf ,a restaurant for orphans and rooms for female baby suitters , a kitchen and a mosque , toilets and a halff to exercise and different games. QC and Yemen has ealier signed three agreements worth of over $1.4 million to carry out humanitarian projects in the country. Under the the first agreement, Qatar Charity grants $1. 089 million to implement a project of restoration 130 house of those affected by confrontations between the armed forces and al-Qaeda militants in Zinjibar, the capital of Abyan governorate. Qatar Charity also donates $100,000 to perform 55 operations of catheterization and open-heart for Yemenis by a specialist medical team from Hamad Medical Corporation and Qatar's Al-Ahli Hospital. The agreements were signed by Minister of Planning and International Cooperation Mohammed Al-Sa'adi and Abdulaziz bin Jassim al-Thani, the member of the Qatar Charity's General Assembly and the supervisor of its projects in Yemen. (QNA)