Qatar NGO donates to 3 institutions

12/05/08
Story: Musah Yahaya Jafaru
THE Rabitat-Duat Muslimeen-Ghana, an Islamic non-governmental organisation, and its partners from Qatar has donated relief items worth millions of cedis to three institutions.
The beneficiary institutions are the Osu Children’s Home, the Accra Rehabilitation Centre and the Weija Leprosarium.
Items donated included rice, sugar, cooking oil, soap, toiletries and cash.
Officials of the Rabitat-Duat and their foreign partners interacted with the inmates.
The Resident Co-ordinator of Rabitat-Duat, Sheikh Hadir Iddris Adam, said the donation was to address the needs of the poor in society as commanded by Allah.
He gave the assurance the organisation would continue to support the institutions to offer improved services to their inmates.
The leader of the Qatari delegation, Sheikh Taais Muhammed, said his outfit would do similar donations at Togo, Benin and Senegal.
At the Osu Children’s Home, the Director of the Home, Mrs Comfort Asare, thanked the Rabitat-Duat for the gesture.
She urged other Muslim organisations to also come to their aid.
An official of the Accra Rehabilitation Centre, Mr Joseph Kojo Atigah, said the donation was the biggest that the institution had received from any institution.
He stressed the need for donors to complement government’s efforts since the government did not have the financial wherewithal to support all institutions.
Rabitat-Duat is an Islamic organisation made up of Islamic scholars. The other scholars present at the donation were Sheikh Hussein Abdul Rahman, Dr Bashir Adam, Sheikh Kamil Muhammed, Sheikh Hussein Rahman and Sheikh Salman Muhammed Alhassan.