IRAQ: Adeela Harith, Iraq "I have to scrounge around rubbish bins to feed my children"

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/4d600515b03fe70e314f6a830b32f2aa.htm

BAGHDAD, 31 May 2007 (IRIN) - Adeela Harith, a 39-year-old widow and mother of three, says she misses the days when her husband was daily bringing them food and when they used to sleep in a safe house in comfort. As a recently-widowed displaced person, she has no support and is now collecting left-overs from rubbish bins to feed her children.

Adeela - who is the mother of Ahmed 14, Zaineb 12 and Yasser 8 - said she had tried to get a job as a housekeeper but did not succeed as most families cannot afford maids or do not trust strangers in their homes. Without an education, she was left with no choice but to look for food in rubbish bins.

"I have to scrounge around rubbish bins to feed my children. They no longer attend school. The oldest two are street beggars and the youngest, Youssef, is with me looking for food in rubbish bins.

"Some people told me that the best way to survive was to find a temporary husband or maybe work as a sex worker to feed my children but I prefer to eat garbage than to lose my dignity.

[babylonsister]

1. Yea, we've changed this family's lives, multiplied by how many?

May * ROT IN HELL!

[youngdem]

2. Not to be flip, but uh, I'm guessin the translator is British?

Rubbish bins? Beggars?

[Blueberry_raspberry]

3. This is the freedom Bush wants to spread to the world?

"Some people told me that the best way to survive was to find a temporary husband or maybe work as a sex worker to feed my children but I prefer to eat garbage than to lose my dignity"

How could Bush &%$# up so badly?