Miller Magazine Issue: 132 December 2020

18 NEWS MILLER / december 2020 Qatar Charity (QC) has provided a grain silo site with a flour mill in Marea, a town in Syria, which is currently servicing nearly 75,000 people. Qatar Charity installs flour mill in northern Syria The initiative came within the framework of the pro- ject entitled “Support Wheat Value Chain in North West Syria”, funded by the Turkey office of the United Nati- ons Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). The “Support Wheat Value Chain in North West Syria” project implemented by Qatar Charity aims at sup- porting the wheat crop and storing production in giant silos in the city of Marea. After the installation of the mill by a specialized team of experts and engineers, it was tested to make sure that it works properly. The mill started to work with a production capacity of 50 tons of flour per day. It provides integrated services, from sifting, cleaning, wetting, and fermenting to milling and packing. The flour produced by the mill will contribute to mee- ting the need for flour in the area where it will be distribu- ted to bakeries. The daily bread production will cover the needs of Marea and its surroundings. Engineer Abdullah Rajab, the food security official at the regional office of Qatar Charity in Turkey, confirmed the completion of the “Support Wheat Value Chain in North West Syria” project by providing the grain silo site with a flour mill that began to work actually. He also noted that the project started supporting the farmer to produce and store wheat in the silos, which will be used to make bread. A study conduc- ted by the Food Security Team at Qatar Charity indicates that the mill can cover the other two areas too if it recei- ves effective support. Qatar Charity, through its qualitative projects, aims at enhancing food security, especially in light of the reper- cussions of the crisis that country has been going through for nine years.