Shukran Qatar
You can walk home at night.
The everyday things we are grateful for
The malls
Cool, safe, and free to walk through for hours. A family day out that costs nothing but the coffee — and everyone comes through the same doorway.
The parks
Grass, playgrounds, jogging tracks and shade. Free, and built with ramps and wide paths so nobody is left at the gate.
The museums
Every national museum, free for anyone holding a Qatar ID. Mathaf and the heritage sites are free for everyone, resident or not.
The schools & universities
Eight world universities in one city, and a school for almost every community, language and curriculum in Qatar.
The library
Free membership, more than a million books in sixteen languages, a music studio, 3-D printers, and a quiet desk that belongs to everybody.
The healthcare
A health card costs QR 100 — QR 50 if you are a domestic worker. Thirty-one health centres and fifteen hospitals behind it.
The metro
Two riyals, spotless, on time, and feeder buses that carry you the last mile for nothing.
The activities
Sport Day is a national holiday so the whole country can move together. Festivals, corniche runs, beach days, night markets, and a calendar that never empties.
The Corniche & the sea
Seven kilometres of waterfront that belong to no one and to all of us. Sunset, a walk, and nothing to pay.
The green
More than a million plants and 219,000 trees grown in a single year, for a desert that keeps getting greener.
The fairness at work
The region's first minimum wage that covers everyone, shade rules through the summer, and a fund that pays you what you are owed.
The diversity
Three million of us, from every corner of the earth, living side by side — and nobody has ever asked us to stop being ourselves.
What a good life actually costs here
Why we say shukran
“I have raised two daughters here. They take the metro on their own. I have never once worried.”
Teacher · 14 years in Doha“My health card cost me one hundred riyals. My father's surgery cost me almost nothing.”
Driver · 9 years in Al Wakra“On Friday we take the children to the museum, then the park, then the Corniche. All of it free.”
Nurse · 6 years in Doha“I came for two years. That was nineteen years ago. This is home now.”
Engineer · 19 years in QatarSay your own shukran.
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