Qatar Charity organises ‘Sports Challenge’ to support ‘Warmth and Peace’ campaign

Tribune News Network Doha In support of the ‘Warmth and Peace’ winter campaign, Qatar Charity organised a ‘Sports Challenge’ programme, with 190 athletes, ...

Tribune News NetworkDohaIn support of the ‘Warmth and Peace’ winter campaign, Qatar Charity organised a ‘Sports Challenge’ programme, with 190 athletes, amateurs, and members of families participating in the challenge, in addition to the sponsoring and organising sports and community institutions. The challenge aims to enhance the value of charitable and humanitarian work and seeks to support refugees and needy people in the winter season and raise awareness of their needs by organising a series of sports challenges.The challenge activities were sponsored by the Gold sponsors Dukhan Bank, silver sponsors Qatar Museums (the Olympic and Sports Museum), and the United Development and Racine Company, in addition to the organising partners, the Qatar Cyclists Team, and the Q-Tri Team. The challenge, which was held in the garden of the Museum of Islamic Art, included several sports activities, such as the bicycle competition that started from the museum garden to Pearl Island and back to the starting place travelling a total distance of 40 km. Then there was a 5 km race; the challenge of families, which was a correction challenge. The goal was a wooden board with several slots; each slot with a value for the participant to shoot the ball at the slot to get points. The “Tent Installation” challenge for families.Fatima Al Mohannadi, Director of local Programmes and Community Development Department at Qatar Charity, expressed her thanks and appreciation to all sponsors, supporters, volunteers, and partners for organizing this challenge, expressing her hope for continued cooperation with Qatar Charity in its various activities. She added that the Sports Challenge event is one of several programmes that seek to support the “Warmth and Peace” campaign. They also aim to raise awareness of the needs of millions of refugees and needy people around the world who live in difficult conditions and dream of a warm winter in which they do not face challenges and risks, by integrating the ideas of sports challenges with the needs of those affected.For his part, Talal Ahmed Al Khaja, CEO of Marketing and Communications at Dukhan Bank,said: “We are pleased to unite our efforts with many athletes, amateurs, families, and institutions, and to harness our resources to bring the event out in its optimal form. “We also express our deep thanks to Qatar Charity for this cooperation in which our visions are consistent and the objectives of our programmes and community initiatives are in harmony.”Abdul Ghaffar Al-Iraqi, Head of Events, Activities and Public Relations at Racine Company, said: “Our participation in the Sports Challenge event comes as a community event concerned with sports and harnessing it for humanitarian charitable work. Dr. Nasser Al-Mohannadi, President of the QTRI and a member of the Board of Directors of the Qatar Cycling and Triathlon Federation, said: “We thank Qatar Charity for this charitable sporting event, and we are pleased with this participation that integrates sport into charitable work.”For his part, Hamad Salem Al-Jaidi, Director of Operations at the Qatar Cyclists Centre, said, “The initiative is related to serving humanitarian work, sharing the suffering of the needy and contributing through sport to alleviate them.”