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Little by little, life in Jordan is returning to normal, and the nights of the holy month are lived with nights, Tarawih prayers, Ramadan tents and cafes, after Jordanians missed this atmosphere during the past two years due to the Corona pandemic and the night ban.

Tkiyet Um Ali serves Rahman's tables on a daily basis throughout the holy month (Al-Jazeera)

Streets, roads, balconies of houses, and mosque doors are adorned with decorative ropes and lit lanterns. Before the call to prayer of Maghrib, Ramadan tents are spread with the tables of the Most Merciful.

On the main roads and roundabouts, and between cars that are late for the family's Ramadan trip, young volunteers and girls serve breakfast meals, sweets and cups of water for cars and passersby.

Before the call to prayer of Maghrib, Ramadan tents are laid out with the tables of the Most Merciful in Jordan (Al-Jazeera)

After a fourth wave of the Omicron mutant at the beginning of this year, Jordan entered the stage of recovery from the Corona pandemic with a decline in injuries and deaths and a rise in recovery rates to more than 99%. In Ramadan 2020 and 2021.

Rahman's tables

At the bottom of the city and next to the main station complex linking the Jordanian capital Amman and the governorates, Tkiyet Um Ali Charitable Society set up its Ramadan tent, to provide breakfast meals to fasting men, women and children.

Tkiyet Um Ali receives in its Ramadan tent two thousand fasting people daily at its location in the Mahatta complex in the center of Amman (Al Jazeera)

The fasting people begin to flock to the tent before breakfast, each taking his place at his table waiting for the staff and volunteers to serve the meals.

The tables of Rahman, which are set up by Tkiyet Um Ali, came after the Jordanian authorities announced that the tables were allowed, but within health conditions, according to the director of the hospice, Samer Balkar, adding that the hospice took the necessary preventive health precautions to receive fasting people and provide breakfast meals.

Volunteers participate in distributing food at Ramadan tables (Al-Jazeera)

4 thousand meals a day

During a tour of Al-Jazeera Net on the hospice, Balkar said that the hospice distributes daily 4,000 iftar meals, throughout the holy month of Ramadan, including two thousand meals in Ramadan tents, and the remaining two thousand are distributed to the homes of fasting people in Amman and the governorates of the Kingdom in cooperation with our partners from charities in those areas .

Meals provided to fasting people are subject to "quality standards in the availability and complete healthy food for the fasting person, and include meat, rice, bread, fruit and a piece of candy, in addition to water and juice."

Tkiyet Um Ali offers an integrated meal (Al Jazeera)

Balkar added that the hospice is working to "provide monthly food support for 20,000 needy families living below the food poverty line" and in all governorates of the Kingdom, so that food parcels are delivered monthly to these families, and each parcel contains food items that meet the family's nutritional needs throughout the month.

Tkiyet Um Ali Association is considered one of the largest relief associations in the Kingdom. It is a non-governmental and non-profit organization established in 2003 with the aim of combating food poverty in Jordan. It was launched by Prince Ali bin Al Hussein, brother of King Abdullah II of Jordan, in the spirit of his late mother, Queen Alia Al Hussein (Umm Ali). .

Ramadan feasts for extended families have returned to add joy and familiarity to the atmosphere of Jordanian families after a two-year hiatus. Despite the state of high food prices, families insist on holding Ramadan feasts related to kinship and increasing affection for relatives.

The food basket for consumers in Jordan has shrunk due to the increase in food prices, which affected the prices of basic vegetables (Al-Jazeera)

market movement

Commercially, the markets witnessed an increasing demand by consumers to purchase the needs and requirements of the holy month, but the shopping movement was less than expected, according to traders and importers, compared to previous years, citing the reason for this to the high prices of foodstuffs from the countries of origin.

During the holy month, the food basket for consumers in Jordan shrank, and the reason for this, according to specialists, was “the rise in the prices of various foodstuffs such as meat, poultry, oils, rice, legumes, canned goods and powdered milk,” and the increases affected the prices of basic vegetables and others.

A marked improvement in the sales of Ramadan decorations 2022 over the years 2020 and 2021 (Al-Jazeera)

Decorations and breakfasts in mosques

Markets, balconies of houses, roads and shops were decorated with luminous ornamental ropes, crescents and lanterns, bringing joy and happiness to the hearts of those who fast.

Sales of Ramadan decorations witnessed an increase this season, according to importers and traders, expecting it to reach 3.5 million ($4.9 million), citing the reason for this to recover from the Corona pandemic and its consequences, and to cancel the evening ban that prevailed in the Kingdom during the past two months of Ramadan.

Commercial markets witnessed an increasing demand for Ramadan needs (Al-Jazeera)

Mosques were filled with worshipers close to each other without distancing, after the Jordanian Ministry of Awqaf announced the abolition of the distance between worshipers, and in each mosque, jurisprudence lessons, religious sermons and banquets for breakfast for fasting people are held containing dates, milk, coffee, sweets, pastries and the generous donations of donors.

The Jordanian authorities allowed tourist restaurants, cafes and hotels to set up Ramadan tents, within preventive health conditions, and restaurants, cafes, sweets shops and Ramadan juices witnessed an active movement with the abolition of the night ban and the return of life to normal.

Nights, Ramadan tents and cafes return to work normally (Al-Jazeera)

The restaurant and sweets sector is counting on increasing commercial activity during the month of Ramadan, after canceling the ban in all its forms and easing procedures, to get out of its crisis over the past two years due to the Corona pandemic and its repercussions.

In the Kingdom, there are about 18,000 shops operating in the restaurants and sweets sector and employing nearly 100,000 workers.