{"id":273696,"date":"2020-05-22T17:46:57","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T20:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=273696"},"modified":"2020-05-22T19:07:03","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T22:07:03","slug":"arab-chamber-donates-food-kits-at-the-end-of-ramadan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/arab-chamber-donates-food-kits-at-the-end-of-ramadan\/","title":{"rendered":"Arab Chamber donates food kits at the end of Ramadan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ccab.org.br\/en\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce<\/strong><\/a> has donated 500 food kits to Mesquita Brasil in the neighborhood of Cambuci in S\u00e3o Paulo. The entity usually celebrates the end of Ramadan \u2013 Islam\u2019s holy month \u2013 by hosting an breaking-of-fast event for Islamic and Arab guests in its headquarters in S\u00e3o Paulo, but this year, due to the coronavirus pandemic, decided to donate food kits for the mosque\u2019s social work.<\/p>\n<p>During Ramadan, which started on April 23 and is slanted to end next Saturday, May 23, the Muslims fast from dawn to sunset, and usually break their fast in evening collective meals called Iftar. The Arab Chamber regularly hosts an Iftar event.\u00a0At the end of religious period, the largest of these celebrations, the Eid Al-Fitr, takes place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was our way of celebrating Iftar, the holy month of Ramadan, which is a tradition at the Arab Chamber. And it is a very healthy way of going about it, by helping out families that need it as they go through this pandemic,\u201d Chamber president Rubens Hannun told ANBA.<\/p>\n<p>This year, the Muslims experienced a different Ramadan <a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/with-the-mosques-closed-ramadan-takes-place-at-home\/\">in Brazil<\/a> and elsewhere, with families breaking their fast among themselves, as the mosques were closed to keep at bay the spread of coronavirus. But in Brazil, the mosques have intensified their social work, donating food kits and helping families affected by the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p><em>Pictured above, the kits being received at Mesquita Brasil.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8216;Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-273716\">Press Release<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The entity delivered 500 food kits for Mesquita Brasil to use in its social work action for people in need. This is the Chamber\u2019s participation in the celebration that marks the end of Ramadan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":273716,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[5650,15457,14936,30811,15459,2741,5049],"class_list":{"0":"post-273696","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-chamber","9":"tag-edi-al-fitr","10":"tag-food-kits","11":"tag-iftar-en-2","12":"tag-mesquita-brasil-en","13":"tag-ramadan","14":"tag-social-work"},"wps_subtitle":"The entity delivered 500 food kits for Mesquita Brasil to use in its social work action for people in need. This is the Chamber\u2019s participation in the celebration that marks the end of Ramadan.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}