by Nermien Riad | Jul 10, 2013 | "The Widow's Cause", Approaches to Charity and Development
Verena put on her black gown for the first time after she lost her husband. It was a public signal that she was a widow. Other women now avoided her when she walked down the dusty roads of her village, Nag El Kesariya. Some in Egypt see a woman without a husband as...
by kbarsoum | Mar 19, 2013 | "The Widow's Cause", Approaches to Charity and Development
Inflation and insecurity have driven Egypt’s markets to become more local, and more focused on the basics. The result has been hard-hitting for Egypt’s widowed households, who already struggle for life’s necessities. But the new, more informal local...
by kbarsoum | Oct 30, 2012 | "The Widow's Cause"
A big factor in Egypt’s orphan issue is that when a family loses the father, they’re sunk. Traditions do not usually give a widowed mother the opportunity to be able to earn money to support her family. In fact, widows wear black and stay at home, out of the way. Last...
by kbarsoum | Aug 28, 2012 | "The Widow's Cause", Approaches to Charity and Development
Om Fady* had no savings and only six Egyptian pounds (about $1 USD) in her pocket. She was an illiterate widow living with her only son in Alexandria. What could she do with that money? For six Egyptian pounds, she could buy aish baladi for four days. Or, she could...
by kbarsoum | Aug 14, 2012 | "The Widow's Cause"
O my Lord, Jesus Christ, What a heart of compassion you are! You saw and felt my deep sorrow Even before me asking! All that I could do was weeping! Weeping over my beloved son! There in his shroud — carried out to be buried! — from “The Widow of Nain” by...
by kbarsoum | Jul 24, 2012 | "The Widow's Cause", Why the Fatherless?
Coptic Orphans has two criteria for accepting a child into our flagship program, Not Alone: the child’s father must be deceased, or the child’s father abandons the family — such as when the father have converted from Christianity. That’s...
