MTC launches campaign in support of donate.om

With the beginning of the holy month of Ramadhan, the Ministry of Technology and Communications is conducting a promotional campaign for the donation portal of the Charitable Organizations: www. donate.om through its official social media channels.

The campaign, titled ‘700 Times’, seeks to encourage online donation through the portal, which is managed by MTC.

It includes 31 charitable organizations that serve a number of charity areas including: motherhood and childhood, environment, zakat and charity, building masjids and Quran schools in addition to social care for people with special needs, orphans, the sick and families with low incomes.

This year, the portal features a number of accounts for some charitable organizations that collect donations to help those affected by the coronavirus pandemic, especially employees and small business owners, whose activities have been suspended temporarily as part of the measures to address the spread of the virus.

The Ministry also reached an agreement with the commercial banks operating in the Sultanate to cancel bank transfer fees on all donations within the portal, as donators can donate to any type of charity starting from RO 1 to 999, and the entire amount will be transferred to the organization without deducting any transfer fees.

Donations collected during this year totaled RO 442K, with the aggregate since the launch of the portal in 2013 rising to over RO 4.871 million. Oman Charitable Organization received the highest amount of donations amounted to RO 1.100 million.