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QNA
Doha
JASSIM and Hamad Bin Jassim Charitable Foundation (HBJ Foundation) announced that it has carried out a number of developmental projects in Asia and Africa at a cost of more than QR150 million.
This is part of its plan for this year which benefits thousands of Muslims in a number of countries including India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and the Comoros.
The projects comprise building of housing units, hospitals, vocational training centres, mosques and drinking water facilities, in addition to its contribution to the support of projects in the medical, educational and other humanitarian fields, HBJ Foundation said in a statement recently.
HBJ Foundation Chief Executive Officer Saeed Mathkar al Hajri said:"The foundation has implemented humanitarian and development projects locally before starting to carry out developmental projects regionally and internationally. Some projects have been already implemented while others are still underway."
Hajri revealed that the construction of Sheikh Jassim Vocational Training Centre in Dabul city the state of Maharashtra in India has been completed. The QR2 million centre will accommodate 128 students annually and will be inaugurated soon. The project aims at empowering the poor and giving them opportunities in technical education in four major areas welding, electricity, plumbing and blacksmithery.
The foundation will shortly sign a contract to establish a project for the construction of drinking water network in Tajikistan.
Hajri pointed out that HBJ Foundation is working on starting the implementation of a 45 -bed hospital in 'Sidi Yosif Bin Ali' area of the Marrakesh province, Morocco. It will construct 116 housing units in the same province. The total cost of the foundation's projects in Morocco is over QR25 million. He explained that the foundation, as part of its plan for this year, will work in Thailand and Mauritania, explaining that the planning of certain projects is underway. These include the establishment of an orphanage in southern Thailand and construction of a housing city in Mauritania's capital Nouakchott.
The HBJ Foundation is progressing with one of its biggest projects Sheikh Jassim hospital in the island of Anjouan Comoros Islands. The hospital will provide integrated health-care services to the poor as well as assist in improving the level of health services in the country. The estimated number of beneficiaries of this project is 790,000 in the three islands Grande Comore, Anjouan and Moheli. The project's total cost is over QR100 million.
