Doha: With the Holy month of Ramadan approaching, Muslims worldwide are preparing to dedicate the entire month to worship and performing charitable deeds. This holy month represents an extraordinary opportunity for Muslims to multiply their good deeds through graciously providing humanitarian and relief aid to projects that spearhead the sustainable development, which will ultimately leave an enduring footprint in the life of beneficiaries.
According to Qatar News Agency, able fasting individuals should expand charitable actions during Ramadan to promote social solidarity, offering an opportunity to enhance the developmental aspect of charity, with many donors viewing it as the ideal time for projects that address the needs of the impoverished people, ensuring their lasting impact beyond the month. Given the upsurge in impoverishment and conflicts, coupled with displacement waves and the number of asylum seekers in numerous Islamic nations, it is significantly important to take advantage of this holy month to fulfill urgent humanitarian needs through implementing projects that provide decent living for those in need, whether through dedicating agricultural and commercial projects to them, or providing large-scale development projects, such as building schools and health centers.
Overall, charitable works during Ramadan have expanded beyond food baskets, medical supplies, and cash distributions to encompass developmental projects such as building schools, hospitals, water initiatives like well-digging, and cooperative facilities, which provide enduring benefits to communities, including orphan sponsorship. Speaking to QNA, Assistant CEO for the Governance and Institutional Development Sector at Qatar Charity (QC), Mohammed Al Ghamdi, highlights that Ramadan is the season of constantly cultivating good deeds, during which people pivot toward making donations for those in need, stressing that all Muslim segments shoulder a significant responsibility to meet the increasing needs, amid the aggravating cycle of hunger, impoverishment and conflicts.
Al Ghamdi added that Ramadan is a month of gracious spending for development projects, including initiatives that help individuals achieve self-sufficiency and secure lasting income sources. He emphasized that the nature of aid has changed through focusing on an enduring development, in terms of the humanitarian relief that observes climate and sustainability issues, in addition to offering job opportunities and reaching out to impoverished Muslims worldwide.
He explained that QC has recently inaugurated the identity of Humanitarian Impact Forum 2025 in partnership with the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) to remain an annual pivotal platform that addresses critical gaps in humanitarian coordination and lends impetus to innovation, in pursuit of surmounting humanitarian challenges on the ground and enhancing sustainable solutions. Al Ghamdi underscored the importance of gauging the humanitarian intervention and impact generated from projects that are implemented in this respect, stressing that humanitarian aid should solve problems and address the challenges facing people on the ground, in addition to engaging in conversations on this platform.
The outcome, he said, will be charting a road map for humanitarian action in the years ahead, emphasizing that such efforts and initiatives when intensified throughout Ramadan will help strengthen the endeavor toward a more effective humanitarian response. For his part, senior goodwill ambassador at the Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) and Chairman of the Ramadan committee 1446H/2025, Yousef Al Awadhi, highlighted to QNA that Ramadan is the month of generosity goodness, and spending on humanitarian projects to sustain livelihoods and support families.
QRCS spearheads Ramadan campaigns which always comprise humanitarian projects devoted to millions of Muslims in multiple nations, which substantially make difference in their life during the Holy month and beyond, he said. He explained that this year’s campaign is primarily focused on giving that bears fruit, and entails the implementation of 136 international projects benefiting nearly two million recipients across 11 countries, affirming that QRCS intensifies efforts, particularly during Ramadan to attract the benefactors’ contributions to charitable works and converting this giving into projects that meet the aspirations of beneficiaries.