MOGADISHU (Halbeeg News) – Qatar charity has launched the Iftar program to help more than 1,100 Somali families during the holy month of Ramadan in Mogadishu on Tuesday.
The program will target poor and needy families mainly those living inside the internally displaced camps across the country.
Qatar Charity Somali project manager, Abdinur Haji Ali said the first face of the program would target IDPs in the outskirts of the capital, Mogadishu.
“The program which will target poor and needy families comes at the time when there is delayed rains across the country,” Abdinur said during the launch of the project in Mogadishu.
On his part, Somalia’s Minister for Humanitarian coordination, Hamza Said Hamza thanked Qatar charity for the aid program especially during the holy month of the Ramada.
He called upon other agencies and well-wishers to follow Qatar Charity’s example by assisting needy Somali citizens across the country.
The assistance by the leading Muslim charity organization based in Qatar comes as international aid agencies warned scarcity of food that might affect thousands of Somalis in the horn of the Africa nation as the result of prolonged drought and famine.
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