Q Life Magazine Q Magazine (US) December 2015 | Page 69

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. 69