Doha: The Ministry of Sports and Youth (MSY) has organized the Al-Ghariyah Challenge Camp 2025, underscoring its role in empowering Qatari youth and providing quality spaces for experiential learning and capacity-building, while building on the success of previous editions. The event brings together a group of young individuals of both genders from a variety of centers and youth institutions.
According to Qatar News Agency, the camp intends to reinforce the spirit of belonging and responsibility among participants, advance their leadership and life skills, and help them explore their role in serving the community and contributing to achieving sustainable development. It showcases workshops on societal responsibility, sports and recreational activities, volunteer initiatives, and panel discussions on youth-related issues, as well as environmental awareness and life planning.
The camp has been organized as part of the ministry's vision, which focuses on having active, responsible, and patriotic young people, alongside a community that practices sports through practical programs that invest in young energies in positive pathways. In addition, the camp aims to create an interactive environment that fuses theoretical learning with on-site application, in addition to deepening values of obligation, discipline, and the spirit of initiative, contributing to refining the participants' character and enhancing collective work skills.
The activity contributes to implementing the strategic objectives of the Department of Youth Affairs in connection with empowering young individuals and boosting their engagement in the community, as well as promoting programs. Ultimately, the camp reflects the MSY's participatory approach in listening to youth aspirations and subsequently incorporating their suggestions in alignment with the national policy for youth.
The camp embodies the ministry's commitment to organizing programs that meet youth needs and translate its vision in empowering them and bolstering their engagement in national development, highlighted Director of MSY's Youth Affairs Department, Fawaz Abdullah Al Musaifri. Al Musaifri further added that the camp is a model of the holistic approach combining training, recreation, advancing social responsibility, and leadership skills.
For his part, Director of the camp, Ahmed Khaled Al Ansari, pointed out that the camp programs have been set up by capitalizing on the previous ones, affirming that the participants' suggestions have formed a lynchpin for developing the new editions through broadening conversations, increasing applied activities, and enhancing follow-up mechanisms.