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06-25-2016, 05:01 AM
RIYADH: Clad in black and with a baby in her lap, a woman sits on the ground shaking a cardboard box outside the door of a Saudi mosque.
She says she is from Jazan, a southern region of Saudi Arabia bordering Yemen, and begs every day outside the mosque in a Riyadh neighbourhood of migrant workers.
Many of the South Asian men attending the mosque are low-paid labourers but they still spare a riyal for her. The box fills quickly as they drop the equivalent of 27 US cents after their prayers. Charity is one of the main principles of Ramazan, the Islamic holy month when Muslims around the world fast from dawn until dusk. Each Ramazan, which began this year on June 6, many more beggars take to the streets of oil-rich Saudi Arabia, Islam’s spiritual home.
But this year a leading charity is urging Saudis to channel their generosity elsewhere. Alwaleed Philanthropies, the charity arm of billionaire Saudi businessman Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, says begging is linked to "street gangs" and substance abuse.
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She says she is from Jazan, a southern region of Saudi Arabia bordering Yemen, and begs every day outside the mosque in a Riyadh neighbourhood of migrant workers.
Many of the South Asian men attending the mosque are low-paid labourers but they still spare a riyal for her. The box fills quickly as they drop the equivalent of 27 US cents after their prayers. Charity is one of the main principles of Ramazan, the Islamic holy month when Muslims around the world fast from dawn until dusk. Each Ramazan, which began this year on June 6, many more beggars take to the streets of oil-rich Saudi Arabia, Islam’s spiritual home.
But this year a leading charity is urging Saudis to channel their generosity elsewhere. Alwaleed Philanthropies, the charity arm of billionaire Saudi businessman Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, says begging is linked to "street gangs" and substance abuse.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/World-TheNewsInternational/~4/vkS3RI_4oYA
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