Tele-feeding .. The "Sabeel Ma'an" tent preserves its charitable heritage, defying Corona

Ayman Fadilat-Maan

From the early morning hours of Ramadan, the twentieth young man, Abd al-Rahman al-Mughidha, goes to the Sabeel Ma'an Ramadan tent, armed with cooking tools, knives and special time for preparing meals.

Cut chicken or meat, which provided by the philanthropists to cook and distribute to the needy, then prepare the rice and cut the onion wash pots bring water, wherever you look in the tent of the way you see the angry young man ready to fulfill any requests, pushed by his love to do good. 

Al-Ghayyaza says to Al-Jazeera Net that the Sabeel Ma'an tent has been in existence for the past 18 years, and continues to give will not be stopped by Corona. And north.

Those responsible for the way have been preparing food for the buses of pilgrims crossing the city of Ma'an coming from the Palestinian territories or Iraq or Syria and others, and the road is feeding truck drivers and university students and those stranded by passers-by, in addition to poor and needy families and Syrian refugees residing in the southern border city of Maan with Saudi Arabia And away from the capital, Amman, about 230 km south of Jordan.

Corona and Al-Sabeel.
With the advent of Corona, the condition of the road changed, so the headquarters assigned to the volunteer team was closed, tents for pilgrims buses and desert road passengers were removed, and gathering in public places was prohibited in response to health conditions and controls.

And the Corona pandemic was absent from the rituals and Ramadan customs inherited from dozens of years in the city of Ma'an. However, the Sabeel Ma'an Ramadan Tent refuses only to withstand Corona, preserving a long-standing charitable heritage.

The Sabeel Ma'an Committee insisted on implementing its volunteer initiative full-time to feed the poor and needy of the city of Ma'an, and it resumed its work after establishing a new tent to work in a suburb of the city. 

The committee took all the reasons for health protection for fear of spreading the virus in the city, and the workers in the tent are keen to take all preventive measures and apply health conditions at work, they wear masks and gloves for that, and they are keen to reduce mixing among them.

During the evening distribution campaigns for meals, distributors are keen on wearing masks and condoms, the use of sterilizers, and the social separation between them and the families receiving Ramadan Iftar. A

Ramadan appearance of faith.
The work on "Sabeel Ma'an" is based on donations and donations in kind and financial provided by the people of good, so that a volunteer committee consisting of 15 people to work for the sake of Ma'an collects these donations, and discharges them in preparing, preparing and distributing food for his needs inside the city.

All of this takes place during the hours for citizens to be allowed to roam from eight in the morning until six in the evening, and before the announcement of the evening curfew in the Kingdom. 

"The Sabeel tent is one of the manifestations of the month of the fluorescence of the month of fluorescence in the city of Maan. It started 16 years ago and will continue to do good every year. The Corona virus will not stand in the way of our work," says the head of the "Sabeel Maan" committee, Maher Quraysha, to Al Jazeera Net.

Quraysha adds that the method of operating the Sabeel Tent changed this year in response to health conditions and precautionary measures taken by the government in its confrontations of the Corona pandemic, and "with the stop of Umrah pilgrims and the closure of universities, our work in the tent focused on preparing and distributing food to the poor and needy of the city."

Day-laborers 
In this Ramadan season, the Al-Sabeel Committee allocated a quantity of breakfast food to the families of day-laborers and self-employed people whose income sources have been suspended due to the curfew and the closure of their workplaces and their private institutions. 

The committee provides 400 to 500 breakfast meals a day for families who have hidden in the city of Maan. The amount of meals distributed depends on the value of the donations provided to the Sabeel Committee. The more donations, the greater the number of meals. 

He adds that the people of Ma'an, who used to get used to intercepting vehicles and passenger buses on the desert road and standing in the middle of the street, waving their hands to eat breakfast in the Sabeel Ramadan tent, did not disappear, but it is postponed for the next year after the cloud of Corona clears.