Qatar Charity (QC) has provided food to more than 16,000 people in Eastern and Western Ghouta, Syria.  
“The food basket distribution project in Ghouta aims at alleviating  the sufferings of the affected and respond to their basic needs. They are currently suffering from food shortages as well as psychological and financial burdens. We will try to help alleviate their sufferings and save their dignity,” QC director of relief management Mohamed Rashid al-Ka’bi said in a press statement.
Al-Ka’bi explained how the field team in Syria was able to distribute food baskets to 16,000 people, noting that each basket was sufficient for a family of five members for around a month. The quantity of food supplies was determined according to international standards of the World Food Programme. “Each basket contained rice, sugar,  beans,  tomatoes, olive oil, cooking oil, macaroni, vermicelli, hummus, jam and other items,” he added. 
The QC official thanked all the people who helped, supported and donated for the Relieve Syria campaign. 
“We were able to implement many of the campaign’s projects. We encourage the philanthropists in Qatar to continue their support to the campaign because of the exacerbating conditions of Syria. When the people of Qatar help their brothers and sisters around the world, it shows how generous and bright Qatar is,” he said. 
People can donate for Syria’s relief campaign through Al Rayan Bank account IBAN/QA40MAFR000000000003111111001, QC’s website qcharity.org, QC’s headquarters and branches in Qatar, collection points in malls or through the hotline 11776644 
QC’s urgent relief response campaigns for the Syrian people have run since the beginning of the five-year-long civil war there. Recently, QC signed agreements to implement relief projects for the benefit of 346,600 people at a cost of more than QR10mn. 
The cost of implementing all the projects is about QR10.015mn. Currently, QC’s relief management is preparing for a huge winter campaign that will serve around 1mn beneficiaries, the statement notes.
Because of the current situation in Aleppo and the difficult circumstances of the city, QC has distributed 5,000 food baskets for 5,000 families through its Relief Aleppo Campaign. It has also distributed flour, baby milk and water through QC’s water tanks. 
In addition, QC has maintained the Qatari Bakery in Saraqeb (Idlib) and helped it get back to business after its destruction. Through the bakery, QC provided bread for displaced Syrians in Idlib. Around 40,000 people benefit from the project. 
As Eid al-Adha nears, QC has allocated an adequate share for countries that suffer from “exceptional circumstances”. For Syrians in Syria and refugees in Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon, it has allocated a share of more than 1,027 sacrifices of mutton at a cost of over QR1mn.