Qatar Charity (QC)’s office in the Gaza Strip has implemented the first phase of a project that involves paying the tuition fees for needy students at the Islamic University of Gaza.
The initiative is aimed at helping the students continue their education at the university, QC has said in a statement.
It is expected that 800 students will benefit from the project implemented at a cost of QR3,650,000. The implementation will last for six months.
Mohamed Abu Halloub, QC office director in the Gaza Strip, stressed that the goal of the project is to financially help the students who live under difficult circumstances. “The students must continue their education,” he said. “We need to help their parents by paying the students’ university fees. We should also support the university by helping its students continue their education.”
After realising that 40% of the university students could not pay for their studies, QC sought to provide them with their needs, the statement noted.
Dr Ahmed Mheisin, deputy president of public affairs at the Islamic University of Gaza, commended the role of Qatar and its people’s in helping the Palestinian people in the educational sector and other areas. He also lauded the development projects implemented by QC that reinforce the scientific potentials of Palestinians.
“I am thrilled that the tuition fees of the Islamic University’s needy students have been covered. The university will do its best to take into consideration the students’ circumstances,” he said.
This is not the first project QC has implemented for the benefit of students. It has executed a project to help around 2,500 graduates who could not pay their due fees to receive their certificates.
QC is currently building study halls at Al Aqsa University in Gaza, from which thousands of students are expected to benefit. In addition, it supports the Taqat project for scientific research at a cost of over QR7,000,000. It has also implemented a project to provide schools with solar energy at a cost of more than QR5,000,000.
QC had signed three memorandums of understanding with the Ministry of Education in the Gaza Strip regarding co-operation on educational projects. The projects will mainly serve the primary and higher education sectors in Palestine at a cost of more than QR15,500,000.
“It is worth mentioning that QC has implemented projects at a cost of over QR40,000,000 ($11,000,000). The projects included repairing 30 schools, organising educational campaigns that aimed to provide tens of thousands of students with school tools, providing colleges with laboratories and furnishing the centres of teachers who work at the ministry’s schools,” the statement added.