Kuwait- In the blessed month of Ramadan, no one carries food or drink.. The simple people erase the item of food and drink from their modest budgets, but the picture of obtaining free food before breakfast differed from the past. Before the pandemic, the tables of the Most Merciful were spread in all regions of Kuwait and the Arab world, but now it is the distribution of meals It is the general feature.
In Kuwait, the traditional image of Al-Rahman’s tables of tables filled with hot meals and cold drinks has diminished, and the modern image has become of cars loaded with cardboard boxes standing in front of a queue of those wishing to receive their meals, after the Kuwaiti Ministry of Endowments decided to limit itself to canned meals instead of Al-Rahman’s tables, in accordance with the requirements of the Ministry of Health. and its preventive measures.
stacked meals
Muhammad Yaqoub, a property guard in the Salmiya area, heads to a mosque in a square near his residence an hour before the Maghrib call to prayer and stands in line with colleagues and acquaintances.. Time passes quickly until the desired bus appears and two employees are waiting for it to organize the distribution, while the meals that were piled on the floor of the bus have vanished In the blink of an eye, the crowd shook off, rejoicing, with what they held in their hands.
Yaqoub told Al Jazeera Net, “Before Corona, we used to break our fast inside the mosque with dates and canned milk, then pray Maghrib and return to find extended mattresses with hot food and meat on it, and we eat together and help clean the place, then we go on as if we were in the days of Eid, and now we receive the meal as you can see and go to the room from which we came and the feeling is not time”.
Charitable societies are active in this field to adopt new meal distribution centers in the Salmiya and Wafra areas, as well as Rumaithiya and Fnaitees, instead of the traditional Rahman tables in the Salwa area.
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The meal distributor usually wears a white robe with a vest resembling a black police vest with two phosphorous stripes. In front of the Al-Saq’bi Mosque, near the northern Nuqra area, the car of the benefactors is stationed, and some commotion occurs when some try to prevent a person from acquiring more than one meal in partnership with another of the same nationality.
Explaining what happened, Eng. Taher Abdullah, one of the organizers of the tables of the Most Merciful, says: Some simple people go to mosques to bring meals not only for themselves but also for their families or neighbors who for some reason cannot attend themselves, but people are not equal in accepting this, especially those who stand in line and fear To run out of meals before the turn hits him and gets his meal.
Taher explains that work is regular in the distribution, the cars come on time, and the volunteer team is doing their duty accurately, but behind all this is a decisive administration and unknown soldiers and white-handed donors who do not like to be visible.
Activities, contributions and initiatives that serve the Kuwaiti society, of course, increase in the holy month, including the delivery of meals to needy families in the “Iftar fasting” and “Ramadan magazine” projects, with a basket of food and consumer items during the month, and this activity is characterized by certain associations and banking institutions that list families And she sends hot meals to her, in a good phenomenon worthy of documentation.
