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قطر الخيرية | |
| Founded at | Qatar |
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| Type | Nonprofit organization |
| Headquarters | Qatar |
Region | Global |
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| Website | qcharity |
Formerly called | Qatar Charitable Society |
Qatar Charity (formerly Qatar Charitable Society) is a humanitarian and development non-governmental organization in the Middle East. It was founded in 1992 in response to the thousands of children who were made orphans by the Afghanistan war and while orphans still remain a priority cause in the organization's work with more than 150,000 sponsored orphans, it has now expanded its fields of action to include six humanitarian fields (shelter, emergency medical response, food aid, WASH and financial aid) and seven development fields (health, education, WASH, food security, financial empowerment, housing and social care).[1]
Between 2012 and 2017, Qatar Charity has spent over US$1.3 Billion on humanitarian and development operations and projects which provided relief and assistance to more than 178 million people in over 50 countries.[2] These projects are carried out either directly by Qatar Charity through its 24 subsidiary offices around the world or through partnerships with international or local NGOs or IGOs.
Qatar Charity has been a strategic partner of UNCHR since 2012, with total contributions of USD 50,258,913 million for IDPs in Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, and Syria and refugees in Lebanon, Jordan, and Myanmar, reaching more than 1.6 million beneficiaries.
In some of the world's most conflict-affected countries such as Yemen and Syria, Qatar Charity ranked among the top contributors (including governments) to humanitarian activities according to the OCHA-monitored Financial Tracking Service.[3]
Qatar Charity has been criticized for supporting the Muslim Brotherhood and spreading political Islam worldwide.[4]
According to a report published in February 2021 by the Washington Institute, Qatar had agreed to stop providing support to the Muslim brotherhood, expelled non-citizen brothers from the country and would not shelter any person from GCC Countries to avoid undermining relations with the Gulf. The documents proving the same were published by Al Arabiya on July 10, 2017.[5]
In September 2023, the UAE removed 59 Qatari nationals and 12 entities, including "Qatar Charity" from the terrorist list, that was announced by the blockading countries during the Gulf crisis in June 2017.[6][7]
- ^ "Qatar Charity – International Humanitarian Organization". www.qcharity.org. Retrieved 22 November 2018.
- ^ "Qatar Charity - Our Offices". www.qcharity.org. Retrieved 22 November 2018.
- ^ "Qatar Charity". UNHCR. Archived from the original on 21 October 2023.
- ^ "The Qatar Papers: How Qatar Charity inserts itself in European Muslim Affairs". European Eye on Radicalization. 21 January 2020. Retrieved 26 November 2021.
- ^ "Will Qatar's Relationship with the Muslim Brotherhood Change after Gulf Reconciliation?". The Washington Institute. Retrieved 20 June 2022.
- ^ حنفي, سالم (14 September 2023). "الإمارات تعلن إزالة شخصيات وكيانات قطرية من قائمة الإرهاب.. تعرف عليها!". وطن | يغرد خارج السرب (in Arabic). Retrieved 21 September 2023.
- ^ السرب, وطن يغرد خارج (14 September 2023). "الإمارات تعلن إزالة شخصيات وكيانات قطرية من قائمة". KLYOUM.COM (in Arabic). Retrieved 21 September 2023.