{"id":5654,"date":"2014-07-01T12:00:20","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T09:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/?p=5654"},"modified":"2014-09-09T12:32:35","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T09:32:35","slug":"fasters-breakfastcharity-initiative-to-substitute-food-baskets-in-ramadan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=5654","title":{"rendered":"‘Fasters’ Breakfast’\u2026charity initiative to substitute food baskets in Ramadan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Damascus, SANA \u2013 A charity project mainly inspired by the generous atmosphere that prevails during the holy month of Ramadan, which Muslims around the world observe by fasting, has been launched by a youth volunteer campaign.<\/p>\n

The initiative, named “Iftar al-Saem” in reference to banquets held at the time when people break their fast, is meant to be “an alternative for the food basket,” according to Nour al-Sairawan of al-Ghada Association, under whose patronage the project was launched.<\/p>\n

\"Iftar-Charity<\/p>\n

Al-Sairawan told SANA miscellaneous bulletin that the project suits Ramadan, where meals are being cooked by volunteer women at a special kitchen for the Association.<\/p>\n

The meals are served to all needy families registered at the Association, with each of them feeds five individuals, he added.<\/p>\n

The meals include rice, meat and salad dishes, in addition to dates and drinks.<\/p>\n

Beneficiary families, al-Sairawan said, are informed of the meal date by the Association via a text message sent to their mobile phones, usually one or two hours before fast-breaking ( iftar) time.<\/p>\n

The Association has so far distributed 1000 meals to 100 registered beneficiary families. It also feeds 250 unregistered families.<\/p>\n

H. Said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Damascus, SANA \u2013 A charity project mainly inspired by the generous atmosphere that prevails during the holy month of Ramadan, which Muslims around the world observe by fasting, has been launched by a youth volunteer campaign. The initiative, named “Iftar al-Saem” in reference to banquets held at the time when people break their fast, is …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5655,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[1152,939],"class_list":["post-5654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-miscellaneous","tag-charity-initiative","tag-ramadan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5654"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}