CAIRO -
The Egyptian street became turbulent after a charitable organization in Alexandria published pictures of distributing cow bones to women who queued in long queues to get them, and social media grabbed them before the association deleted them later.
Al-Safa and Al-Marwa Association published on its Facebook page pictures of 16 bones (locally called pipes) donated by a butcher to distribute them to the poor in the village of Abis in the city of Alexandria. on social media.
One of the attendees said during the distribution of the bones, preferring not to be named, "The incident is real and not fabricated, but it was misunderstood, and we were surprised by angry reactions on social media, so we immediately deleted the post out of consideration for people's feelings."
Regarding the circumstances of the incident, he explained - in his speech to Al Jazeera Net - that one of the donors handed over the bones to the association as an in-kind donation and asked to distribute them to the poor who are unable, and this is what the association did in good faith, but there are those who misunderstood the matter, he said.
Despite the deletion of the post and photos, news websites and social media continued to publish and comment on them, and the nature of anger and indignation prevailed over the commentators who saw them as an insult to the poor by distributing sacrifice crumbs on the one hand and photographing women in a queue on the other hand, but some considered the work as one of the aspects of goodness and demanded not to Belittlement is known.
A charitable association in Alexandria posted
two posts about a butcher donating 16 calf pipes (bone) to distribute to 16 families
far from the poor quality of the donation, but imagine the 16 families receiving the bones and downloading the pictures as an achievement for the association and writing that the pipe is used for broth and vegetables enough for two days
. People will find it from poverty or from lack Valueđ pic.twitter.com/xmAgsUe5ky
â đ» Fat đŽ nÛđș (@Baheia238823) April 10, 2022
đ A charitable organization in Kafr Al-Dawwar called âAl-Safa and Al-Marwaâ
is a post and proud of it about a butcher donating 16 calf pipes
(bone only) to be distributed to 16 needy families.
The butcher is so good!!
But oppression is that you imagine the 16 families receiving the pipe and writing the pipe on which broth and vegetables are used, enough for two days!!!đ pic.twitter.com/3QvZHYUH3Q
â Hana mahmoud (@hanamah06738975) April 10, 2022
A charitable organization called Al-Safa and Al-Marwa in Alexandria..
Manzil Post reported that a butcher donated 16 calf pipes to be distributed to 16 families in the Abis area at the entrance to Alexandria!!
I am not upset about the poor quality of the donation and the butcher is so good...
But it is all wrong that you depict the 16 families receiving the pipe and download the pictures as an achievement for the association đ€Ź pic.twitter.com/8117r9OUZK
â Hany AlSmmak (@hany_fathalla) April 10, 2022
Investigation of the incident
At first glance, when the issue began to spread, some thought it was unreal, and some sought to claim that it was fabricated to distort the authority, but it quickly turned out to be true, and in the first official reaction, Magda Galala, the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Solidarity in Alexandria, defended the incident, saying that they had formed a committee and sent it. To the association's website to clarify the matter, and it became clear that the association's director had slaughtered a calf and distributed the meat to the deserving, as was the custom in the month of Ramadan.
His Majesty added - during a telephone interview with the Saudi-owned MBC Egypt channel - that a number of citizens demanded that the bones (pipes) be distributed to them for use in making broth, noting that one of the people took advantage of the matter and filmed and published the pictures and attached them to a talk about Distribution of the bones which is not correct, she said.
In turn, the charity later wrote an explanatory leaflet on its Facebook page, in which it confirmed that âone of the donors (and not the owner of the association, as the official of the Ministry of Solidarity claimed) slaughtered a calf and distributed it to people, and after completing the distribution of meat and the contents of the calf, we found some present. They want the bones, and they have already been distributed and someone in the audience took pictures of people."
The association considered that the attack on it, despite the precedents of its well-known charitable work, was aimed at defamation without knowledge, and its chairman pledged to sue everyone who defamed the association without even knowing where it is located.
Meat or bones?
The talk of the association official and the undersecretary of the Ministry of Solidarity, about distributing meat besides the bones, raises questions: Why did the association not publish pictures of meat distribution as it photographed the distribution of bones only to the poor, and is the donor the owner of the association as the official of the Ministry of Solidarity said or one of the donors as the official said By the assembly?
Some demanded the criminalization of humiliating people under the slogan of donating and showing the activities of charities to obtain the support and money of donors, condemning such acts and saving the face of the poor and the needy.
A picture of the celebration of the officials of one of the associations in Apis, Alexandria, after distributing 16 bones to 16 poor families,
news that oppresses one pic.twitter.com/3tBLfvCFwj
â mostafa abd alhakem (@mostafa_alhakem) April 10, 2022
Humiliation and humiliation, followed by humiliation! A charitable organization is photographing a number of poor people while distributing some âbonesâ in the village of Abis in the governorate of #Alexandria. It is disgraceful beyond what is disgraceful to strut around in the image of presenting bones without meat. There is no power but God.
pic.twitter.com/xnuvsw3nuB
â Randa Ahmed (@Rimas_Rosa) April 10, 2022
Humiliation and humiliation, followed by humiliation! A charitable organization is photographing a number of poor people while distributing some âbonesâ in the village of Abis in the governorate of #Alexandria. It is disgraceful beyond what is disgraceful to strut around in the image of presenting bones without meat. There is no power but God.
pic.twitter.com/xnuvsw3nuB
â Randa Ahmed (@Rimas_Rosa) April 10, 2022
The prices of red and white meat have risen to a record level due to the wave of high prices and inflation that is sweeping the country affected by the crisis of the Russian-Ukrainian war on the one hand, and the devaluation of the local currency (the pound) against the dollar on the other hand by about 17%.
The price of a kilo of municipal meat ranges between 160 and 200 pounds, and in some areas in cities and shopping centers it reaches 250 pounds, while the price of a kilo of minced meat ranges between 130 and 160 pounds (a dollar equals 18.30 pounds).
Standard rate of inflation
And the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics announced, on Sunday, that the annual inflation rose last March to 12.1%, compared to 4.8% for the same month of the previous year, and consumer prices rose last month on a monthly basis by 2.4%.
In a statement on its website, the agency attributed the monthly rise in consumer prices to an increase in grain and bread prices by 11%, meat and poultry by 7%, and dairy and eggs by 5%.