Projects

In 2016, the State of Qatar, through Qatar Fund for Development, launched "Qatar Upholding Education for Syrians’ Trust” (QUEST), an initiative that aims to ensure that children and young people affected by the Syrian crisis have access to education, skills training, and healthcare services, both inside Syria as well as in neighboring refugee host countries, including Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon and Turkey.  

Examples of QUEST Health initiatives include Women Health Care Today, a program operated by Qatar Charity to ensure the preservation of safety of both pregnant women and children during the COVID-19 pandemic. QUEST Health has   also supported the Academy of Health Sciences in Idleb Governorate to build the capacity of health systems in Northern Syria.

The Sudan Public Health Training Initiative (PHTI) was launched in 2015 as a joint effort with the federal ministry of health in Sudan to strengthen the public health education system and develop a skilled and equitably distributed workforce capable of meeting maternal and child health needs across Sudan.   

The initiative has provided skills laboratories, essential information and communication technology, reference books, textbooks, and copies of updated training curricula in Sudanese Arabic for anesthesia assistants and midwifery community health workers. More than 370 faculty members have been trained in effective clinical teaching skills, and they, in turn, have been responsible for training more than 25,000 public health students and trainees. This program has enabled women to promote health in their communities and ensure safer deliveries of newborns.

In 2019, Qatar Fund for Development opened Hamad Hospital for Rehabilitation and Prosthetics in Gaza, a state-of-the-art, 12,000-square-metre facility, that offers 100 beds to service those who have lost their limbs due to conflict, as well as women and children with hearing impairment or motor disabilities. Thus far, more than 13 thousand patients have benefited from the hospital’s rehabilitation services, half of which have been women.