Qatar Charity Opens Village for Accommodating Displaced Syrians

Doha, August 03 (QNA) - Qatar Charity (QC) has opened a model village for accommodating the internally-displaced Syrians in Idlib Province, north Syria. The project, the first of its kind, benefits 100 Syrian families or 600 people at a total cost of over QR 1.7 million, QC said in a statement today. QC distributed 600 mattress, 600 blankets and 600 pillows, six of each type for every home, three community tents; one to be used for first aid, one as a school and the third as a mosque, and bathrooms for men and women. QC's Executive Director for International Development Mohammad bin Ali Al Ghamdi said: "This project is part of Qatar Charity's work for Syrians displaced within the country, by providing them with shelter and other essential services that preserve their human dignity,". "The project aims to improve the basic living conditions of the displaced and alleviate their suffering," he added. Al Ghamdi noted that QC is now focusing its efforts on Syrians inside the country; establishing projects covering shelter, health and food, and revealed that over 70 percent of the total aid to Syrian people had gone to internally-displaced Syrians. He urged the citizens and residents of Qatar to support QC in its plans to implement more such villages and double their relief for Syrians at home, revealing that the number of displaced Syrians has now reached over four million. A QC delegation has visited Aleppo to deliver the housing units to the Syrian families and attend the ceremony to lay the foundation stone of the second village in collaboration with the Turkish Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH). (QNA)