While gorging themselves, they probably give no thought to the starving people in this world.
Massive food waste seen at mass Ramadan iftars in Saudi Arabia
Worshippers eat during Iftar, or breaking of the fast, at the Grand Mosque in the holy city of Makkah, Saudi Arabia, Wednesday, July 10, 2013. (Reuters)
Saudi GazetteSaturday, 18 June 2016
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A few minutes before the Maghreb (dusk) prayer every day in Ramadan, many good-doers prepare iftar (fast-breaking) meals and invite fellow Muslims to join them. Almost all mosques Kingdom-wide have such meals for fasting people who come for prayer.
Some people believe so much food is wasted at these mass iftars while others dismiss such apprehensions and call for organizing even bigger iftar projects, Al-Riyadh daily reports.
The total amount of money spent on mass iftars around the Kingdom that are attended mainly by low-income expatriate workers could run into hundreds of millions or even billions of riyals.
Journalist Ayman Al-Ghabawee said one iftar meal costs a minimum of SR10. If a city has 150,000 people who join these parties, the cost of providing them the meals will hit SR1.5 million a day or SR45 million the whole month, said Al-Ghabawee.
“Then we can imagine about cities that have larger number of workers,” he added.
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Massive food waste seen at mass Ramadan iftars in Saudi Arabia
Worshippers eat during Iftar, or breaking of the fast, at the Grand Mosque in the holy city of Makkah, Saudi Arabia, Wednesday, July 10, 2013. (Reuters)
Saudi GazetteSaturday, 18 June 2016
Text size A A A
A few minutes before the Maghreb (dusk) prayer every day in Ramadan, many good-doers prepare iftar (fast-breaking) meals and invite fellow Muslims to join them. Almost all mosques Kingdom-wide have such meals for fasting people who come for prayer.
Some people believe so much food is wasted at these mass iftars while others dismiss such apprehensions and call for organizing even bigger iftar projects, Al-Riyadh daily reports.
The total amount of money spent on mass iftars around the Kingdom that are attended mainly by low-income expatriate workers could run into hundreds of millions or even billions of riyals.
Journalist Ayman Al-Ghabawee said one iftar meal costs a minimum of SR10. If a city has 150,000 people who join these parties, the cost of providing them the meals will hit SR1.5 million a day or SR45 million the whole month, said Al-Ghabawee.
“Then we can imagine about cities that have larger number of workers,” he added.
Continue reading at:
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/per...-massive-Ramadan-iftars-in-Saudi-Arabia-.html
