Jerusalem - "Al-Quds" dot com - Bayt Mal Al-Quds Agency said that the volume of development subsidies it provided between 2000 and 2022 to various sectors of the Holy City amounted to about $64 million.

The agency added, during a press conference held today, Wednesday, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of its founding, that the Kingdom of Morocco contributed $16.7 million of the total contributions made by countries.

A report reviewed by the director in charge of running the agency, Mohamed Salem Al-Sharqawi, confirmed that the social assistance sector, culture, youth and sports received about 60% of the agency's expenditures, in implementation of the instructions of the Moroccan monarch, Chairman of the Jerusalem Committee King Mohammed VI, which requires that the agency give special attention to this sector.

He pointed out that the decent living program, which targets poor families in Jerusalem, distributes 29,000 loaves of bread daily to about 2,900 families, and creates economic support for 20 bakeries.

The report indicated that (the Jerusalem Orphan Sponsorship Program) sponsors 100 orphans and orphans from the children of Jerusalem, adding that 650 boys and girls benefited from the summer camps program for Jerusalem children in Morocco, in addition to the beneficiaries of the "summer camps for Jerusalem children in Jerusalem" program, which is funded by the Agency in partnership with Jerusalemite associations and in cooperation with the Directorate of Education in Jerusalem.

He stated that the (Civil Initiatives Project for a Sustainable Program for Human Development in Jerusalem) is interested in financing association projects in the fields of professions, training, women's empowerment, income generation, capacity support, and community inclusion.

He pointed out that the agency has a number of other social projects such as restoring and rehabilitating sports clubs and cultural centers and equipping them, distributing food parcels during the holy month of Ramadan and religious occasions, supporting and financing the individual and group lending program for building and restoring homes and housing, rehabilitating the homes of the poor and marginalized, and restoring mosques and the Moroccan corner.

The report stated that the Agency has completed several projects in the education sector, which accounted for about 20% of its budget, including: building 4 new schools, repairing and restoring 10 others, and the scholarship program for Jerusalemite students provides annual scholarships in the field of higher education for outstanding Jerusalemite students. And those in need to continue their studies in Palestinian, Moroccan and other universities, by 2000 dollars for literary majors, and 3 thousand dollars for medicine and engineering majors.

He said that the agency supported Jerusalem hospitals by purchasing ambulances, devices and equipment to help them perform their tasks, in addition to rehabilitating and restoring some of them, and establishing medical units and departments in hospitals in various specialties, indicating that during the period of the "Corona" pandemic, it provided hospitals with the necessary supplies to help them deal with the pandemic. .

It is noteworthy that the Bait Mal Al-Quds Agency is a social humanitarian institution, established on the initiative of the late Hassan II in 1995, and began its actual work during the year 1998, and works under the direct supervision of the Chairman of the Jerusalem Committee, the Moroccan King Mohammed VI, to implement social projects in Jerusalem to contribute In protecting the Holy City, preserving its religious and cultural heritage and supporting its residents.

Its projects are divided into sectors: education, health, housing, culture, sports, women's empowerment, youth and childhood care, as well as social assistance programs for people in difficult situations and groups with disabilities.