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Humanitarian Aid |
Qatar Foreign Aid
- by the numbers -
26
26TH LARGEST
government provider of
humanitarian assistance
in last decade.
2012
humanitarian
partnership
agreement
signed with UN
to coordinate Qatar’s
global humanitarian responses.
$2.5 BILLION
estimated
government humanitarian aid
distributed 2010–2015, making
foreign aid and development an
integral part of foreign policy.
$1 BILLION
committed to
rebuild Gaza, from
a total of $5.4 billion
committed by U.S.
and other countries.
$3.3
MILLION
raised for
2015 Nepal
earthquake relief.
180 TONS
of relief
material
and a field
hospital
in Nepal.
$100 MILLION
given in 2005 to
Qatar Katrina Fund;
$20 million given in
2010 to Qatar Haiti Fund;
$100 million given in
2011 to Qatar Friendship
Fund in Japan.
$1.7 BILLION in aid to the
Syrian people in first four
years of Civil War.
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