Keeping Hunger at Bay in Ramadan
11 June, 2016KHARTOUM (Sudanow.info.sd) - Ramadan is a month of mercy...Ramadan is a month of compassion..Ramadan is a month of charity....True .. All these blessings converge on Moslems during this Holy month ....Not only from the reward and the prize the devout Moslem can collect in the hereafter for having fulfilled this duty towards Allah The Almighty of fasting, praying and reading the Quran ...but also by nurturing a feeling towards the others, particularly the destitute ...a feeling that takes many forms.
One such a form is what groups of youths are doing in Ramadan to aid the poor in a well-orchestrated effort that can help these youths with an answer to the divine question’’ Your youth what did you do with it?’’ ... comes the day of judgment.
One of these groups is the Birr and Ihsan (charity and goodness) society who made it a responsibility to sow the seeds of happiness and joy in hearts that suffered from the bite of poverty and the bitterness of sadness. These youths are full of zeal and determination for voluntary work .. This initiative was first launched in 2013 with the distribution of what they called ‘’Ramadan Food Parcel’’. The initiative had aimed at collecting quantities of consumer goods mostly needed by fasting people. The list contains sugar , juice, wheat and sorghum flour, chick-pea (garbanzo), dates and oil in bags to be handed to the poor families. The operatives further moved to buy new clothes for poor families..Further they started to buy school bags for needy orphans ..And then they launched medical programs that include medical checkups and treatment of those in need.
Another society “The Khair (Good) Youths ‘’has launched an initiative for selling books, proceeds of which are used to pay for charity work..The group sets book fairs at the Green Square in Khartoum . The revenue thus collected is spent on the group’s projects of buying and distributing food parcels, the preparation of meals to be distributed at cross-roads for riders who cannot reach home at the right time for the sunset meal. The group also distributes food to the sick and their accompanying relatives in the hospitals here.
Another group was initiated by a girl who started to collect money from her neighbors for children at the Maygoma Home for Abandoned Children. The idea then matured further to include support to poor families in and outside the neighborhood. The society operates under the theme: The work that best serves the Almighty –after doing what He enjoined us to do –is to bring happiness to the heart of a Moslem (which is a Prophet Mohamed's saying). The group started with distributing 25 food parcels in 2011 that scaled up to 170 parcels during the previous Ramadan. The group has rallied support from compassionate citizens and from the area’s dwellers.
This is just a glimpse of what youths could do in order to help others as there are lots and lots of other individual and collective initiatives that cannot be accounted for in this briefing.
It could be enough to say that official and private effort have teamed up to avail food for the needy during Ramadan. In this regard public and private firms help their employees with the bulk of their food needs during Ramadan, either free of charge or at affordable installments. Charities, in their turn, take care of needy citizens who are not employed in organized sectors.
Therefore, it could be said that Ramadan is the month during which the poor and needy people are not worried about what to eat or drink.
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