30% of those receiving assistance for debtors are young people: QC official

NT Bureau

DOHA: Thirty percent of those who receive assistance from Qatar Charity for debtors are young people, and some of them are women, as a result of venturing into an investment or doing a business without proper studies, a senior official of Qatar Charity has said.

Muhammad Ali Al-Ghamdi, Assistant CEO of the Governance Sector at Qatar Charity, revealed in an interview with Qatar TV that every person with a bad debt considers himself in debt, but the Qatar Charity has standards and requirements in order to consider this person in debt, and once he or she meets these requirements, they are included for approval.

Al-Ghamdi said that the requirements for debtors to be eligible for aid are that he must have been subject to effective judicial rulings, he has no money or ability to repay, and this must be proved; the debt must be in a permissible matter which means no judgments violating public morals or other cases have been issued against him.

On the size of the debt, he said there is a debtor who is unable to pay one million riyals, and another debtor who is unable to pay 40 million riyals, and so the owner of the million riyals is presented because we can help him and open a link for him.

Also, the person who loses his job and goes to prison has priority because his social and family affairs are complicated by the issuance of more rulings against him.

He pointed out that 30 percent of the cases to whom “we provide assistance are young people, and some of them are women, as a result of the desire for adventure and opening an investment or doing a commercial activity, which led to the debt”. Sometimes, after falling into debt, the husband searches for a way out and makes his wife borrow thus creating problems for both.