Doha, December 30 (QNA) - The Qatar Society of Engineers (QSE) on Tuesday launched the "Engineers Without Borders" programme, the first of its kind in the State of Qatar, and inaugurated its official website.

Chairperson of the Board of Directors of QSE, Eng. Amna Mohammed Al Naama, said the programme is one of QSE's flagship initiatives, aiming to deepen the culture of institutional voluntary work and leverage national engineering expertise in supporting humanitarian and development ventures at home and abroad.

The programme broadly focuses on benefiting from engineers, project managers, and stakeholders by transforming engineering know-how into a concrete impact that serves society, Al Naama highlighted, adding that this impact is meant to demonstrate the engineer's national and humanitarian role.

She hoped that the society would forge effective and outstanding partnerships with successful partners from national and charitable entities, thereby fostering integration, ensuring persistent impact, and achieving the programme's objectives in the long and short term.

Eng. Khalid AbdulRahim Al Sayed, Board Member of the Qatar Society of Engineers and Director of the Engineers Without Borders programme, presented a thorough explanation about the programme, clarifying that it intends to provide specialized engineering services that support charitable, humanitarian, and societal institutions through promoting the culture of voluntary work.

The programme literally aims to harness the engineering expertise of engineers, project managers, and stakeholders to help advance humanitarian and charitable ventures at home and abroad, Eng. Al Sayed outlined.

Al Sayed elaborated that the programme offers a bundle of engineering services to strengthen sustainable development and back these charitable ventures by capitalizing on the expertise of a contingent of specialists in a variety of engineering areas as part of their societal responsibility in developing engineering work inside charitable enterprises and commissions in a more transparent, professional, and sustainable way.

The programme is twofold: the first track provides the volunteer engineer with the option of choosing the volunteering times he or she deems appropriate, with the second track featuring recorded programs from which the volunteer engineer selects the programme he or she wishes to participate in, Al Sayed noted.

The programme and its website launch ceremony featured remarks from partners of several competent authorities who had been honored during the occasion.

The honorees praised their effective partnerships with QSE in terms of empowering engineering talents, fostering voluntary and humanitarian work, coping with digital transformation in service of society, and promoting the standing of the Qatari engineer.

Director of the Department of Associations and Private Institutions at the Ministry of Social Development and Family (MSDF), Abdulla Mohammed Al Hajri, said the QSE's approach is exactly what the Ministry aspires for associations to pursue, particularly professional ones, to be true contributors to development, combining profession enhancement with contribution to meeting societal needs.

This move would definitely foster confidence in the role undertaken by civil society and double its impact, Al Hajri underlined, noting that the programme is consistent with the provisions of Law by Decree No. (21) of 2020 concerning associations and private institutions, emphasizing the importance of associations' role in serving society and realizing the public interest, in addition to consolidating the principles of governance and institutional work, and directing associations’ activities towards achieving a sustainable social impact.

Director of the Endowment Funds Affairs Department at the Ministry of Endowments (Awqaf) and Islamic Affairs, Rashed Touaim Al Marri, affirmed that partnering with this programme embodies a shared vision in the quest for empowering engineering competencies, strengthening voluntary and humanitarian work, and keeping up with digital transformation.

These objectives, he noted, would literally serve society, shore up the standing of Qatari engineers, and effectively help achieve sustainable development.

Al Marri touted the partnership with QSE to launch this programme, stemming from Awqaf's belief in the role of engineering in building societies and lending impetus to the path of sustainable development in a commitment to backing beneficial national initiatives.

Executive Director of International Operations at Qatar Charity (QC), Abdulaziz Jassim Hejji, described the initiative of launching this programme as a pioneering move that embodies the true meaning of societal responsibility and harnesses engineering expertise in serving the people and society.

Today's humanitarian action is in need of enduring solutions and specialized competencies, projecting the role of engineers as a core component of mitigating risks, elevating the quality of planning and implementation, and maximizing the developmental impact of humanitarian ventures, Hejji suggested.

Hejji further elaborated that the aforementioned programme is an advanced model of professional voluntary work through forging effective partnerships between volunteer engineers and charitable enterprises, underpinning transparency, competency, and sustainability.

He hoped that the programme would position itself as an operational platform that helps advance voluntary engineering at home and abroad.

Assistant Secretary General for Volunteering and Local Development at the Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS), Hussein Aman Al Ali, applauded the launch of this programme, which holds an integrated humanitarian vision that helps harness engineering expertise toward serving society and reinforcing response to humanitarian needs.

He asserted that this initiative manifests QRCS's shared belief with QSE in the importance of advancing opportunities in alignment with the epochal requirements in a variety of national agencies and institutions to realize an enduring and realistic impact, in commensurate with Qatar National Vision 2030. (QNA)