Nouakchott -
For fear of his cart being stolen, the fruit seller at the crossroads of Madrid in Nouakchott is unable to join his peers at the free breakfast tables in the charity tent near him, which is only 100 meters away from him.
But Khatari's urgent need to break the fast on hot soup after a long and hard Ramadan day, called him to violate the established regulations, to come and ask the people in charge of the tables to allow him to take his breakfast outside the tent to the place of his cart.
Food items to be used in Ramadan breakfast tables (Al Jazeera)
Khatri says that they always hesitate to accept the request for fear of chaos, but often sympathize with him to finally let him secretly take his share of breakfast and eat it by the side of his cart, his only source of income.
Khatri, like the majority of the Mauritanian people, complains about the poor living conditions, the crazy rise in prices and the poor work, and adds with a bad grumbling, "These circumstances made me stay on this car until midnight despite its low revenues."
Iftar tables in Nouakchott are held in the courtyards of mosques and hospitals, along roads and public squares (Al-Jazeera).
In Nouakchott, on the balconies of mosques and hospitals, on the sides of roads and public squares, tents are set up here every year with the advent of the blessed month of Ramadan, to be a safe haven for the poor, the needy and the passersby.
Dozens of young volunteers are involved in charitable organizations and organizations to create a wonderful atmosphere of intimacy, love and mercy among the various members of society.
A Ramadan breakfast table prepared for accompanying patients in a hospital in Nouakchott (Al-Jazeera)
Iftar in mosques
Mosques in Mauritania are no longer confined to worshipers and students of knowledge who attend lessons and lectures. In Ramadan, they have become a destination for dozens of needy people looking for a public place to secure breakfast in Ramadan, as people tend to practice authentic social habits that call for more social solidarity and encourage giving and giving, so iftar tables abound. Collective in mosques and squares.
Mosque tables are prepared jointly by the mosque’s neighbors, where each family adheres to deducting what is sufficient for two or three fasting people from their Iftar. These families are keen that their children deliver breakfast to mosque-goers so that they become accustomed to doing good and charity and grow up to practice volunteering from an early age.
The "Assaad Tasaad" Charitable Society offers breakfast to 30 escorts per day for patients at the National Oncology Center (Al Jazeera)
One of those in charge of the Jaafar Al-Tayyar mosque, which overlooks the crossroads of Tensuilim in Nouakchott, says, "Since long ago, breakfast tables have been held in the mosque, frequented by students, workers, owners of small shops, and the needy." of some benefactors.
In recent years, charitable organizations have begun to contribute to the preparation of iftar tables in mosques. Ahmed Sayed Ahmed tells Al Jazeera Net, a supervisor of breakfast activities in a charitable organization called "Basma and Amal." The location of the mosque and the number of its visitors.
Stressing that it is a complete and varied meals.
Part of one of the Ramadan Iftar tables in Mauritania (Al Jazeera)
Rahman's tables
The tents of the Rahman tables set up in the center of the capital, Nouakchott, and which are supervised by the “Basma wa Amal” association, receive daily hundreds of fasting people who are stranded and who do not find food for their day.
In the open tent for breakfast, crowded with diners, Ishaq, 60, sits at a table that extends along with dozens of fasting people, waiting for the Maghrib call to prayer, for the third day in a row, as he breaks the fast away from his family, who are absent from them daily for more than 16 hours.
The association's tents at the crossroads of Madrid and in front of hospitals are open to all those in need (Al-Jazeera)
He tells with pain to Al-Jazeera Net about the importance of this meal for him, he says, "I left behind a sick wife who does not fast and young children, and my breakfast here saves her a lot of effort and the hardship of preparing breakfast, and it also relieves me of some of the costs I need in other matters."
As for Ahmed Sayed Ahmed, the supervisor of the "Basma and Amal" breakfast, he says that "the association's tents at the crossroads of Madrid and in front of hospitals are open to all the needy, and the arrivals are offered a full breakfast consisting of dates, milk, mineral water, sweets and soup, in addition to a main dish of meat and a Mauritanian tagine." He added, "We receive daily between 200 to 300 fasting people, and the number increases with each new day of Ramadan."
During Ramadan, residents flock to mosques, where they organize daily lectures supervised by the Ministry of Islamic Affairs (Al-Jazeera)
fasting breakfast campaign
Not far from these activities, dozens of women gather throughout the blessed month of Ramadan at the headquarters of the "Improved Hearts" association, to prepare breakfast for more than a thousand people a day from hospital and market pioneers. It also prepares an integrated breakfast for dozens of families of widows and orphans.
These women lead extensive donation campaigns on social networks and carry slogans from the sayings of the Messenger - may God bless him and grant him peace - who was the most generous of people, and he was the most generous in Ramadan, including his saying: the one who fasts for nothing."
Worshipers attend a lecture at the Saudi Mosque in Nouakchott in Mauritania (Al-Jazeera)
In Mauritania, where Sunni Muslims constitute 100% of the country’s population, according to official sources, the population flocks to mosques during Ramadan, where daily lectures and seminars are organized supervised by the Ministry of Islamic Affairs urging more charity during the blessed month of Ramadan, in which wages double.
Collective iftars are held in many mosques, which are supervised by some charitable societies. The government also contributes to the financing of these iftars in some mosques, where quantities of food are distributed to mosque imams and sheikhs of the mosques.
Dozens of volunteers, youth and women, prepare these meals at the headquarters of their associations, before transporting them and presenting them to the expatriates to the iftar camps set up by charitable societies for fasting people, most of whom are passers-by and those with low and medium incomes.