Doha, August 19 (QNA) - Qatar Charity (QC) has launched the Education Campaign 2026, pursuing the motto “Science as Stewardship”, marking the approaching academic year and back-to-school initiative.

The move underscores its commitment to supporting the right to education and enabling children and young people to continue their educational path, as one of the foremost development tools, in addition to building people and charting a more stabilized future for individuals and societies.

The campaign intends to reach out to benefactors to pitch in and give help to as many as 123,000 students in need at home and abroad, with the objective of providing them with the opportunity to chart their future and contribute to developing their communities.

The projects abroad include providing school backpacks, uniforms and educational supplies, supporting school feeding programs, sponsoring students in need, and improving the learning environment by constructing and rehabilitating schools and furnishing them with the necessary educational facilities.

Executive Director of Communications and Community Impact at QC Abdulaziz Jassim Hejji appealed to benefactors, individuals and companies to magnanimously pitch in to support this campaign so as to help create an indelible humanitarian footprint that would literally change the lives of those targeted segments and their communities.

Donating for educational ventures isn't merely a support for a class or school backpack, Hejji underlined, but rather a contribution to building people who are capable of maintaining self-dependence and serving their community and nation.

Hejji noted that education is one of the greatest avenues for doing good and a lasting charitable contribution, as its benefits endure for years and extend to students, their families and their communities, ensuring that the reward of giving continues.

  He affirmed that education would remain a key pillar of QC's humanitarian and development programs, given that it fulfills a fundamental right of children, serves as a cornerstone for strengthening communities and mitigating the effects of poverty and crises, and helps build a brighter future for students and their communities.

Overall, the campaign intends to strengthen awareness of education as a fundamental right for all and support education in areas that are plagued by humanitarian crises, disasters and conflicts. This would thus help provide secure educational opportunities for children, to be able to return to school, pursue their education and prevent school drop-off.

The campaign will be fairly implemented in a number of countries facing humanitarian and development challenges, including Palestine, Yemen, Sudan, Somalia, Syria, Lebanon, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Mali, Burkina Faso, Albania, and Nepal, ensuring that support reaches the students most in need.

While inside Qatar, it aims to support children from low-income families and orphans by helping cover their school and university tuition and fees, sponsoring students in need, and providing school backpacks, uniforms, sportswear, and other educational resources, including tablets and laptops. (QNA)