The Ministry of Development promotes family participation in Ramadan
The Ministry of Social Development and the Family organized a lecture entitled (My family and I in Ramadan). This lecture comes as part of the Ministry's celebration of Family Day in Qatar 2022. The lecture was presented on April 11, at Miqdam camp.
This celebration comes in cooperation with the Qatar Foundation for Social Work and the Family Counseling Center (Wifaq). This lecture was presented by Dr. Hassan Al-Buraiki, Head of the Family Reform Department at the Family Counseling Center - Wifaq - for the military college affiliates in Miqdam camp. The lecture (me and my family in Ramadan) aims to feel the importance of family participation in enhancing family cohesion and strengthening relationships and bonds between family members, and deducing the important role of family participation based on acceptance in bringing parents and children together, and distinguishing between normal forms of participation within the family, as well as distinguishing between levels of Participation within the family (between spouses, between parents and children, between children), and others.
This lecture dealt with several axes, including: effective participation in the family, and the promotion of family participation in Ramadan.
During the lecture, Dr. Hassan Al-Buraiki said: The month of Ramadan is a golden opportunity to enhance family participation. He explained that participation in the family contributes to strengthening the relations between its members on the one hand and helps to enhance mutual understanding between the generations of parents and children on the other hand. .
It is noteworthy that the Ministry of Social Development and the Family celebrates “Family Day” in Qatar, which falls on the fifteenth of April of each year, in order to emphasize the importance of the family and its pivotal active role in the process of national development and construction. This year's celebration came under the slogan (Qatar is strong in the cohesion of its families), in a context where the Ministry of Social Development and the Family is assuming its responsibilities towards social and family development, which reflects a primary concern of the country's government and makes social development and the family its priority and other responsibilities.
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