Tender after sixty .. Need or Khaled rejoices orphans of Iraq in the feast

Waleed Musleh-Baghdad

After the six-decade journey, the mother and daughter of Khaled Khaled, 64 years old, have been eagerly spending time, money and affection for those who are not afflicted by those who are orphaned and impoverished.

Before the Eid every year, the woman used to go with her husband, Abu Khaled, 70, to go to wholesale markets in Al-Shorja area in the heart of Baghdad to buy clothes, but not for her family or any of her cohorts, but for orphans and destitute children. Far away in the outskirts of cities, where the hand of charity dwindles and diminishes, for the distance and the hardship of traveling.

Warm motherhood tenderness
“I thought that my retirement after 30 years of education would make me locked up in a house where I was little used to, but now I realize that it is the beginning to make generously and work to make others happy.”

Her family of six carries the same burden with her and shares her work. Everyone shares a part of his salary to buy clothes and gifts.

The family meets in her quiet, modest home to sort and sort what was bought according to the age and gender of the children, to conclude the work of delivering materials to the final destination, there are those who wait there with anticipation and passion.

Moments of pain and hope
Her eldest son, who often accompanies her in delivering the hand of charity to those who deserve it in the outskirts of cities, tells Al-Jazeera Net "I am not less happy than those boys are happy with their new clothes, it is what delights my mother so much, and sends a spirit of challenge as they share moments of pain and hope." .

The children who used to look before the dawn of the feast, most of the orphans who no longer have a taste and color, without the visit, which makes them feel that "Santa Claus" is still present and not forgotten them.

The majority of these boys live in slums on the outskirts of towns and cities, away from everything except the joy of Eid, they have a share.

Joy in the heart of an orphan
"It is a nice thing to give the bite to the hungry, but the most beautiful is to bring joy to the heart of an orphaned child with Eid cladding," said social researcher Janan Mubarak.

Jenan says the number of orphans has risen a lot more than before because of waves of displacement and terrorism, and the state must have a gesture. As the officials rejoice in the feast, there are poor and orphans are not inferior to them, waiting for those who give them a dose of hope.

Trust life again
Abu Yusuf, a resident of the remote villages west of Baghdad, sees him awaiting from the arrival of the clothing of children, and holds in his hands a long list of those who lost one of his parents or visited him to become subsistence.

"We are very fortunate that there are people who are influencing themselves. We have learned from them that life is more beautiful than we thought," Abu Yusuf told Al Jazeera Net. "Distributing Eid clothes to destitute families erases despair and gives them confidence again."

My children are celebrating Eid
Um Alaa, one of the women in a small, dilapidated house, living in poverty, speaks with tears that almost leap from them. "We created poor people and there is nothing wrong with that. Clothes from need Umm Khalid ".

Successive days and years speeding in the paths of times, one is old and goes on quickly, but the great souls do not know in the tender meaning of the pyramid, humanity does not have a date envisaged, and this is what has always delivered Umm Khalid was the first initiators.