Qatar Freezes Charity Sponsorship of 21,000 Orphans
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Now thousands of orphans the organization helped are without aid |
By Dalia Al-Hadidi, IOL
Qatar correspondent
DOHA,
August 8 (IslamOnline) - Ahmed Bin Ali Al-Boenin, the former manager
of the Qatari Charity Organization, criticized the decision of the
Qatari government to freeze the organization’s aid to 21,000 orphans
around the world.
Al-Boenein
pointed out that there was foreign pressure behind this decision.
Al-Boeinin
told IslamOnline on Tuesday August 6, that the social affairs
administration, subsidiary to the Ministry of Civil Service and
Housing, enacted a decision concerning the freezing of postal money
orders through money-changing services and banks for the
association’s foreign projects which include orphan’s support. He
added that the aid had been stopped since April 2002.
Al-Boenein
said that he tendered his resignation as the association’s head on
August 1 to declare his refusal of such a decision.
“I
worked in the Qatari Charity Organization for one aim, which is making
charitable work effective, so I decided to resign when I noticed the
official bodies working at stopping the transfer of aid to those who
deserve them,” he said.
Al-Boenin
added that the Qatari authorities wanted to keep itself save from
suspect as many Islamic charity organizations were accused of
supporting terrorism.
He
said that the government had confirmed the money will be transferred.
He waited for over four months, but as the government did not fulfill
its promise, he resigned to tell the public how bad the situation was.
Al-Boenin
said he also wanted to inform donors and sponsors to try and help the
orphans personally as long as the organization was unable to carry out
its mediating role.
Al-Boenin
pointed out that the organization was responsible for charity works in
several places in the world such as the Middle East, Asia, Kosova,
Palestine, and other places.
He
added that 100 Qatari riyals were needed monthly to support one orphan
in countries like Egypt, Sudan, Afghanistan and Somalia, and 150 or
200 riyals in trouble areas such as Palestine and Kosova.
He
said that the organization was interested in maintaining the
relationship between the sponsor and the orphan, so that the sponsor
can stay informed of the orphan’s health, financial and educational
conditions through letters and periodical reports enclosed with a
photograph of the orphan every six months.
The
organization had been working for more than 15 years in orphan support
as well as education and health care especially for children who were
orphaned due to wars and disasters, he revealed.
He
confirmed that the number of orphans who were sponsored by the
organization lived in 32 countries in Asia, Africa and Europe. He
added that their ages ranged from 5-16 years.
Al-Boenin
pointed out that he had to carry on major administrative changes which
included closing six offices in the organization to reduce
administrative spending so as to save it for projects.
Abdullah
Hassan Al-Naema, the current executive manager of the organization,
refused to reveal any information about the external pressures on the
organization, but he did not deny that aid had not reached the orphans
for four months.
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