Rabat

- The case of the Moroccan child Rayan - who was desperately trying to rescue him from the narrow artesian well in which he was stuck since last Tuesday afternoon - showed the humanitarian aspects of the residents of the rural "Tamrout Community" in the Chefchaouen region, which is about 500 km from the capital, Rabat.

The village of Ajran, located in the Rif Mountains, was not known until it became the focus of attention of Moroccans, the Arab world and the world at large, after the tragedy of the fall of the 5-year-old child Rayan.

According to the data of the last general census conducted in 2014, the population of the rural “Tamrut community” is 26 thousand people and 4,652 families.

Cruel terrain and human generosity

Despite the harsh structure of the terrain of the region and the fragility of the social conditions of its residents, the incident of the child Rayan showed human scenes that reflected the generosity of the Moroccan villager and his sense of solidarity and sharing the simplest possessions he possesses with everyone.

Residents of the village of Ajran opened their homes to accommodate journalists stationed in the place since last Wednesday, to follow up on the details of the rescue efforts, moment by moment.

Journalist Hamza Al-Metiwi told Al-Jazeera Net that he closely felt the generosity of the villagers and their sense of solidarity.

Given that the village of Ajran is located in a remote area far from the city, it is not accustomed to receiving foreign visitors, so it lacks shelters and nearby hotels, so local residents received journalists in their homes to take a rest or sleep.

Hamza added that the residents provided great assistance to facilitate the work of journalists, such as providing electricity sockets, to enable them to charge their phones, computers and cameras.

"We could not have continued our work without the help of these residents and the facilities they provided us for free," says Hamza.

Women cook food for rescue soldiers (social networking sites)

hot food and water

The village women volunteered to prepare hot food and serve it to the rescue soldiers who are racing against time to get the child Ryan out of the well.

Hamza Al-Wahhabi says that he received an invitation to eat in one of the houses, which is something that people coming to the area miss, especially in light of the severe cold that the village witnesses at this time of the year.

The women of the village are working hard to cook large quantities of food for the civil protection men who are embarking on the rescue operation, the members of the auxiliary forces and the royal gendarmerie who have been desperate for days to secure the area and organize the crowds that flock to it, and for the journalists who report the event on their websites.

The residents of the area, each according to his abilities, volunteered to buy the supplies and foodstuffs that the women need for cooking, and the women provided huge utensils and opened the kitchens of their homes to cook food.

Not only that - Hamza says - some residents of the area volunteered in separate periods to distribute packages of water, milk and bread to the crowds that came from nearby villages and distant cities to provide support to Rayan's family and encourage rescue efforts.

He adds that the great solidarity was not limited to feeding and watering people, but that some of the bulldozers that were used to dig the path leading to the site of the child Rayan were provided by their owners free of charge to the authorities in order to help speed up the excavation operations.

Thus, the whole village turned into a beehive, each doing what he could to make the epic of saving the child Rayan a success. Therefore, his uncle - in an interview with Al Jazeera - considered that Rayan is not only the son of his family, but he is the son of all Moroccans and the Arab world as well.

The rescue operation came to an end on Saturday afternoon, when an ambulance arrived at the tunnel site where attempts to rescue Rayan were witnessed. Moroccan press sources said that the manual digging operations ended, and that a team entered the tunnel to save the child.

Moroccan media reported that the ambulance was carrying the child’s parents, Rayan, accompanied by a medical staff, and he is expected to be transferred by ambulance to a medical helicopter to take him to the hospital, while no confirmed information has yet been revealed about the child’s health condition, and officials only said that they saw his back in the morning by the camera. Just.