Amman —
Amman Chamber of Commerce Chairman
Khalil Al-Haj Tawfiq estimated that the quantity of charity parcels this year
has increased by 100 percent compared to last year, according to Al-Rai.
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Tawfiq said in a statement to Al-Rai that food
merchants have seen an increase in demand for food parcels leading up to and
during
Ramadan.
Economic analyst Ahmad Aud attributed the increase
in charity packages to a decline in people’s standards of living.
The parcels do not go to people merely in “difficult
economic conditions, but to poor people in the most dire poverty,” he
explained. “If they are not given these parcels, they will starve.”
Aud blamed
economic policies, a significant rise in unemployment rates, and low wages. He
said that the increase in poverty “calls for a review of economic and social
policies aimed at stopping the expansion in the poorest class.”
Ziyad Al-Rubaei, a writer specializing in
demographic issues, also pointed to “the presence of
Syrian refugees and migrant
workers who need work but cannot find it, in addition to the decrease in
Jordanian citizens’ own purchasing power.”
However, Rubaei said that the increase in charity
parcels points to an increase in donors’ financial capacity. He believes that
charity is not limited to the rich, as “poor people feel more than rich people
and share what they have.”
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