Arian A.

  "Why are you here in this heat on Eid day instead of staying home? You could have enjoyed with your parents,"   a middle-aged woman addressed me on the morning of Eid around 11 AM. Long Post Alert For the past 12 years, Mojar School has been on a journey, and for 9 of those years, we have been working in Uttara for children and elderly people—especially near Sector 12 and the regional passport office. It’s an old habit of mine—to take my time with work. A task that could be done in an hour, I might take 4–5 hours to complete. Before I explain why, let me share an incident. We had finished distributing food to about a thousand people without any unpleasant experiences or chaos. Then I asked,  "If we provide one or two cows next year, would you be able to cook and serve the food yourselves?" The response came instantly:  "No, son, we can’t. There would be fights and conflicts." They added another story: During Ramadan, someone had cooked and brought meat i...