Green Tent’s Ramadan activities to cover health, education, social welfare
AFlower Each Spring programme has announced that the Green Tent activities it organises during the holy month of Ramadan every year will feature four seminars every week this year.
At a press conference, the Head of A Flower Each Spring programme, Dr Saif al-Hajari, said the Green Tent is a platform for spreading environmental culture and community awareness and its activities were in line with the Qatar National Vision 2030 as well as its pillars in human, social, economic and environmental development, as these are beneficial for individuals and societies.
He explained that this year, the programme, which is organised in co-operation with the Ministry of Endowment (Awqaf) and Islamic Affairs, will address many topics and issues that affect all segments of society, with the participation of a group of officials, scholars, and specialists in the various fields it will be addressing.
The first seminar’s topics include the contribution of endowments to life’s quality and human dignity, discussing the role of endowment in eradicating poverty and hunger, promoting good health and social welfare, providing quality education, decent work, and achieving economic growth, he said.
Also in focus is the role of endowment in spreading awareness, and its contribution to the educational renaissance, through endowments for schools, institutes, universities, and educational institutions in religious and scientific knowledge. Dr al-Hajari noted that the role of endowments in Islam and the Arab and Islamic countries is very important, which is why the Tent was keen to discuss it in three separate seminars.
The programme will also host officials and experts in endowment matters due to their significance, he added, indicating that the seminars will also address fasting of those who are sick, elderly, or in difficult situations, in addition to the legal and medical opinion in this aspect. The head of A Flower Each Spring programme said the Green Tent will focus on the efforts of Qatar in spreading the Muslim culture and heritage throughout the world, given that Doha is the capital of Islamic culture for 2021, in addition to the importance of available vaccines against the coronavirus, the extent of their effectiveness as well as the impact of this pandemic on policies and administrative systems.
He added that the programme will also discuss the impact of Arab and Islamic manuscripts on the cognitive heritage as well as the importance of preserving and restoring it, in addition to the Arab world’s aspirations and challenges towards achieving a digital economy, and the issue of retirement with its psychological and social impact on competencies of the elderly.