Iraqis are tossing over burning ember.... : Indybay

When I go back home I prefer not to talk about what I saw and heard all day long. I switch my mobile phone to the silent mode so I don't have to answer calls, most of which are from Iraqis, of course. But I would go in the evening and call them back, to hear what's new; I cannot close the doors in the face of whoever needs help. We have a proverb that says: That who wants to be a camel-tender (= Camel Shepard) should widen his front gate. Meaning- that who wants to help people should make his chest and heart wide…

By God my heart is tired because of what happened to us all, the worries of people add up to my personal worries, or rather… they make me forget my personal worries; because compared to the disasters I hear about, my own worries grow smaller, and disappear from my mind…

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All the Iraqis are troubled, even those who have a legal residency permit and a good financial stock, but when you talk to them, you will discover how broken they are from inside; and like one of them said: like a glass sheet, if broken, will it ever be like it was before? Impossible, of course…..

There are many organizations here that work for the Iraqis, but the setup of these organizations is usually made up of foreign or Jordanian workers, with high salaries and privileges… but as for the volunteer team; they are usually Iraqi men and women, most of whom carry university degrees but without a residency permit, so they work in rough and offending conditions in most cases, with low salaries which no Jordanian would agree to work for, because it is way below the minimum wage limit that the government and the Ministry of Labor had set here.

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