Qatar Red Crescent Society To Build Bin Sraiya Charitable Town For Displaced Syrians

*Some of the clay houses completed by QRCS in Afes in Idlib countryside, using clay blocks from the natural environment in Syria.*

Doha, 24 Rabiul Akhir 1437/3 February 2016 (MINA) – Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) will set up Bin Sraiya Charitable Town’ for 1,600 displaced Syrians with a QR4.28m donation from Qatari businessman Nasser Rashid bin Sraiya Al Kaabi.

The donation is in support of the Honourable Life, a development project initiated by QRCS to provide adequate housing to Syrian families as protection against the cold weather.

The donation will be used to establish the town to be built in the same manner as the clay houses completed by QRCS in Afes in Idlib countryside, using clay blocks from the natural environment in Syria, The Peninsula News quoted by Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA) as reporting.

The new project involves building 200 60sqm clay houses with complete infrastructure water supply, surface water well, tank, sewerage network, power supply, roads, land levelling, and gardens. This part of the project will cost over QR2.34m.

The project also includes a school to be operated for one year, bakery, health centre, workshop for widows, market, two mosques, and solid waste removal system. The cost of these works is estimated at over QR1.93m.

The project is expected to serve 200 families (1,600 people) with widows, orphans and people with disabilities living in makeshift camps in the district.

Also, there will be thousands of indirect beneficiaries from the activation of the trade and economic activity, as well as camp residents who will have more access to the available health and other humanitarian services.

QRCS has handed over the first batch of clay houses for 100 families (600 people) in Afes at a cost of QR866,739.

The phase involved building 100 clay houses with water, sewage, electricity, roads and gardens for 100 families (600 people).

Each 36sqm house consists of two rooms, a reception hall, one kitchen and one bathroom and cost QR6,100 apart from the cost of land preparation, infrastructure and utilities.

QRCS is preparing for the second phase, which involves building 2,000 clay houses this year in several towns of Aleppo and Idlib countryside, with new design and execution techniques to make use of site-specific advantages and better equipment. (T/Imt/R07)

Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA)