Qatar Charity Blog
Winter in Lebanon: A Hard Season Returns for Syrian Refugees
Syrian refugees in Lebanon face winter 2026 after a year of displacement and return. What changed, what families need and how Qatar Charity helps.
How Do You Prepare a Displaced Family for Winter?
What does a displaced family need to face winter? A table of supplies and what each one does, recent figures on the need, and how you can help prepare a…
Relief for Syrian Refugees in Winter: An Urgent Humanitarian Need
How does Qatar Charity relieve Syrian refugees? A table of its winter efforts, the Haq Al-Sham campaign, the wheat project and the Zaatari center, and how to take part.
How Do Orphans Face Winter Without Family Warmth?
What do orphans need in winter? Learn the dangers of the cold for children, the Rafaqa initiative for orphan care, and how you can support an orphan.
Winter in Lebanon: A Hard Season Returns for Syrian Refugees
Syrian refugees in Lebanon face winter 2026 after a year of displacement and return. What changed, what families need and how Qatar Charity helps.
Charity on Behalf of the Deceased: Does It Reach Them, and What Is Best?
Charity on behalf of the deceased reaches them by scholarly consensus. The best is giving water, then continuous charity such as building a mosque. Rulings from Islamweb.
How Do You Prepare a Displaced Family for Winter?
What does a displaced family need to face winter? A table of supplies and what each one does, recent figures on the need, and how you can help prepare a…
When to Pay Zakat: When It Is Due, Paying Early and Delay
When to pay Zakat? It is due when a full lunar year passes on wealth that reached the Nisab. You may pay early, but may not delay it without an…
Winter in Lebanon: A Hard Season Returns for Syrian Refugees
Syrian refugees in Lebanon face winter 2026 after a year of displacement and return. What changed, what families need and how Qatar Charity helps.
Charity on Behalf of the Deceased: Does It Reach Them, and What Is Best?
Charity on behalf of the deceased reaches them by scholarly consensus. The best is giving water, then continuous charity such as building a mosque. Rulings from Islamweb.
How Do You Prepare a Displaced Family for Winter?
What does a displaced family need to face winter? A table of supplies and what each one does, recent figures on the need, and how you can help prepare a…
When to Pay Zakat: When It Is Due, Paying Early and Delay
When to pay Zakat? It is due when a full lunar year passes on wealth that reached the Nisab. You may pay early, but may not delay it without an…
Sharing Warmth with Millions Around the World
What is the winter campaign by Qatar Charity? Learn its aims, the food, clothing and shelter it provides, where it works, and how to take part in the current campaign.
The Winter Season: Goodness, Giving and Support for Those Affected
The winter campaign in Qatar season by season: beneficiaries, countries and costs from 2018 to 2025, the 'How Long?' campaign, and how to take part.
Why Do Winter Campaigns Return Every Year?
Why do winter campaigns return every year? Recent displacement figures, what the campaigns provide, and how Qatar Charity helps ease the cold for those affected.
Winter Bag for Workers: Warmth and Care in the Cold Season
Learn about the Qatar Charity winter bag for workers: what it contains, where it was distributed in Qatar, how many workers benefited, and how to take part.
When to Pay Zakat: When It Is Due, Paying Early and Delay
When to pay Zakat? It is due when a full lunar year passes on wealth that reached the Nisab. You may pay early, but may not delay it without an excuse, even for Ramadan.
Is banknotes Nisab equivalent to gold or silver value?
One should pay Zakat on banknotes once nisab is reached, and a whole lunar year has passed on it. The rate of Zakat is 2.5%, one quarter of one-tenth. Zakat nisab on banknotes and the like is the same as on trade goods, which is the equivalent of approximately 85 grams of gold or 595 grams…
Eight categories of Zakat
Allah Almighty specifies himself the 8 categories for the distribution of Zakat, saying: “Zakāh expenditures are only for the poor and for the needy and for those employed for it and for bringing hearts together [for Islām] and for freeing captives [or slaves] and for those in debt and for the cause of Allāh and…
On which wealth Zakat is due?
Zakat on cash is paid immediately upon reaching nisab and the passing of one lunar year on it, at a rate equivalent to the value of 85 grams of gold.
A Scholarship That Saved Her University Path
She nearly lost her seat as a university teaching assistant over late fees. The story of Riham Darwish and how a scholarship that arrived in time decided her professional future.
How Does Qatar Charity Support Education in Deprived Areas?
273 million children are out of school today. A look at the size of the global education gap, and at Qatar Charity's role in closing it within the most deprived communities.
Nasma: The First Blind Woman to Earn a Doctorate in Gaza
The first blind woman to earn a doctorate in the Gaza Strip. Nasma's story, and how continuous sponsorship turned visual impairment from an obstacle into a detail.
University Housing for Bosnian Female Students
Four floors near four universities in the heart of Sarajevo. What university housing means for a student from a distant city, and why it decides whether she finishes her studies.
Charity on Behalf of the Deceased: Does It Reach Them, and What Is Best?
Charity on behalf of the deceased reaches them by scholarly consensus. The best is giving water, then continuous charity such as building a mosque. Rulings from Islamweb.
Who Can Receive Sadaqah? Those Most Deserving and the Rulings
Voluntary Sadaqah may go to relatives, strangers, the well-off and non-Muslims, as long as it does not help a sin. Your relatives in need come first.
Sadaqah in Islam: Its Virtues in This Life and the Hereafter
Sadaqah does not decrease wealth; Allah blesses it, wards off harm through it and multiplies its reward, even half a date. Learn its authentic virtues.
Charity in Winter: Why It Is a Lifeline
Learn the virtue of charity in winter and its best types, from warm clothes and food to orphan sponsorship and health care, and how to give through Qatar Charity.
How Can a Breakfast Meal Limit School Dropout?
School dropout is rarely an educational decision. The story of a Sudanese school whose pupils returned after a breakfast meal, with global figures on who enters school and who completes it.
When the Rain Returns: Why Donor Fatigue Threatens Recurrent Disasters
Recurring floods in Pakistan face declining donor support. Long-term aid is vital for recovery.
The Essential Role of Qatar Charity in Providing Food Aid to Gaza
Qatar Charity provides vital food aid to Gaza, helping families in crisis by addressing hunger and supporting recovery efforts.
Relief Web Publishes Qatar Charity’s Rapid Needs Assessment Report in Syria
Relief Web, the platform of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), published the "Multi-Sectoral Rapid Needs Assessment in Syria" report in both Arabic and English. This report was prepared by a highly experienced team from Qatar Charity, which includes representatives from all recognized humanitarian sectors. The report holds significant importance…
Winter Warmth
Sustainability
Technology and Its Role in Education
How technology strengthens education in disadvantaged communities and conflict zones, and its limits when electricity, connectivity and a qualified teacher are missing.
Caught Between Conflict and Politics: The Rising Perils Facing Humanitarian Organizations
Humanitarian organizations today operate in some of the most dangerous environments in modern history. In 2024, attacks on humanitarian workers reached unprecedented levels.
How Did Qatar Charity Confront Smear Campaigns and False Accusations Against It?
How Did Qatar Charity Face Smear Campaigns? Legal Actions, Strict Governance, and International Partnerships to Protect Humanitarian Neutrality.
Lawfare and the Battle Against Humanitarian Action
Qatar Charity’s U.S. legal win exposes how law is misused to target humanitarian aid and highlights the need to protect aid neutrality.
Strengthening Charities’ Role in Social Development
How charities advance social development through education, health, and empowerment, with strategies to boost impact.
“Human Partner”: Four Years of Success
Qatar Charity’s “Human Partner” unites businesses and humanitarian efforts, redefining Corporate Social Responsibility in Qatar.
Qatar Charity’s Bread Production Initiative in Northern Syria
In a bid to bolster food security and promote self-sufficiency in northern Syria, Qatar Charity (QC) continues its steadfast commitment to the region through its ‘Support the Wheat Value Chain’…
Orphans and Social Care
How Do Orphans Face Winter Without Family Warmth?
Six Practical Ways to Support Orphans
Orphans Who Defied Their Reality and Excelled in Their Studies
How Do We Protect Children and Orphans in Disasters?
From Orphanhood to a Doctoral Ambition
From the tragedy of Mostar to a doctoral ambition: the story of Sumayya Kasbovich, and how university education turns an orphan’s path when support arrives on time.
Iman Abu Wakad’s Remarkable Journey: Championing Children’s Rights
Growing up in the Gaza Strip in Palestine, her orphanhood did not prevent her from developing her talents to become a spokesperson for the children of Palestine, defending their rights…
From Tragedy to Triumph: How Sponsorship Empowers Success Stories
Discover how sponsorship transforms orphans’ lives from tragedy to triumph. Inspiring stories of resilience, education, and success highlight the power of support.
The Blind Couple Who Won the Battle of Life
Many individuals face challenges in life due to physical disabilities that hinder them from achieving their aspirations and participating actively in society. However, some individuals choose not to give up…
Orphans Who Defied Their Reality and Excelled in Their Studies
Four stories of orphans from Bosnia, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Kenya who reached a doctorate, world-class training and the practice of medicine, with one point in common: timely sponsorship changed the…
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