The crowd gathers at a relief centre dedicated to feeding the destitute, in particular widows and orphans.
They form a queue waiting to receive food. Children who have both parents dead first, widows with children next, widows with no children last.
Of course when there are so many they will not get very much:
[...] Syria is still the better choice for many Iraqis: in Basra, widows and orphans line up at a relief center (more photos here) [...]
[...] he did not know it he was asking me about Jihad. I told him of the women who risk their lives to get water and food to the most desperate, of the teenagers who willingly allow themselves to be locked up with a street child who wants to [...]
[...] he did not know it he was asking me about Jihad. I told him of the women who risk their lives to get water and food to the most desperate, of the teenagers who willingly allow themselves to be locked up with a street child who wants to [...]
Thank you for these photographs, and for helping us hold in our minds and hearts the experiences of the people of Irak. On this day in the U.S., Thanksgiving Day is being celebrated, a day marking (sometimes overly so) the bounty of the harvest: people gather to feast and be with families. To see on this day especially, those who have lost their loved ones, and have little to eat is something we Americans cannot, should not ever lose awareness of.
Please, readers who can, consider a gift to the Red Crescent: http://donate.ifrc.org/.
In peace,
L.