Dubai: If you meet a person doing charity work, chances are they have learnt it from their mothers.
For example, if you see an Emirati distributing food for the needy or for fasting people during Ramadan, do not be surprised to hear the food was due to the mother personally cooking the meals.
“Until today, my mother believes in this and follows that system,” said Khalid Qasim, Chief of the Board of Directors of Tarahum Charity Foundation.
“If we tell her we can order the food from the restaurant, she would say, ‘No, what about my work? I want to put the effort and feel I did something’,” Qasim told Gulf News.
“She has maids helping her. Yet, she likes standing in the kitchen cooking and supervising, and she likes to distribute the food in her own way,” he added.
After cooking, his mother would ask the drivers to send the food to needy families she knows in Dubai. The rest of the food would be sent to a mosque built by the family. More food would be ordered from a restaurant to fulfil the demands of nearly 350 fasting people at sunset.