Zakat Fund provides aid of about QR 31 million during April and May

Doha: The Zakat Fund at the Ministry of Endowments (Awqaf) and Islamic Affairs provided aid worth QR 30,956,659 during last April and May, benefiting 1,896 families who are eligible for assistance inside Qatar.

Aids included the periodic and cut-off aid, all of which are aids disbursed by the funds management to the eligible families registered with it in accordance with Shariah regulations. The Zakat Fund administration is the government agency to which the law has assigned the jurisdiction to collect Zakat funds and disburse them to the beneficiaries who meet the conditions of Sharia banks. The amount of periodic aid that was distributed and provided on a monthly basis to the eligible families amounted to QR 18,803,699, while the value of the lump-sum aid, which is one-time aid or more according to the families' need, amounted to QR 12,152,960.