‘Team Iftar’ distributed Iftar to workers at the Saja Labor Park in Sharjah, in collaboration with expatriate communities, community organizations, college alumni, businesses, local groups and individuals.
AECians participated as volunteers in this initiative
For the past 14 years, this small group called Team Iftar, had been distributing Iftar during Ramadan months to 20,000+ people in more than 50 camps. However, during the last two years, Iftar was cancelled due to corona.
This year, the Iftar program is organized with the support from UAE Red Crescent and UAE Labor Standards Development Authority. Team Iftar was able to get into the largest Iftar camps in Sharjah by providing Iftar to more than 3,000 people every day, with the help of about 100 volunteers.
Every evening during this Ramadan, thousands of workers from nearby labour accommodations gather in the park. As they make rows facing each other and sit without rushing, a battalion of volunteers appears with food packets loaded in trucks. After laying the plastic rolls in between the rows of the workers, they hand out the iftar food packets.
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Image Credit: Virendra Saklani/Gulf News
Image Credit: Virendra Saklani/Gulf News
