Breaking Bread With Idlib’s Poorest

Category: Photoblog | Date: July 4, 2016 | Author: Ahmad al-Salim | Location: Idlib

Relief organisations in Idlib helped the destitute and displaced celebrate Ramadan by hosting traditional iftar meals to break their fast.

Field kitchens and restaurants set up in opposition-held areas cooked banquets so people could eat together at sunset during the holy month.

Displaced people from Sahl al-Ghab and Hama’s northern countryside also enjoyed the festivities.

Food rations were also distributed as well as meals that included rice, chicken, boiled meat and dates.

Damascus Bureau’s Ahmad al-Salim visited a number of these kitchens and took the following photographs.

A kitchen sponsored by the Qatari humanitarian organisation RAF provides 250 meals a day

A meal consisting of rice, chicken and meat

Cooked meals are packaged for distribution

Packed meals ready for distribution

Special beverages are distributed

A group of banquet attendees pray before breaking their fast

Volunteers help serve meals

A group of beneficiaries break their fast

A displaced child receives her daily iftar meal

Packed meals are delivered to the houses of the destitute

Idlb’s Eid humanitarian organisation distributes 300 meals a day

Young men busy cooking in a field kitchen