Free iftar meals by Dar Al Ber Society - in pictures
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Dar Al Ber Society's Ramadan project provides 2,500 free meals at Ibrahim Khaleel Masjid, one of 23 locations where meals are distributed each day of Ramadan. All photos: Antonie Robertson / The National -
Three restaurants cater Dar Al Ber's meals during Ramadan, including Seventy Seven Food Stuff Catering in Sharjah -
With a high volume of orders, staff work in teams cooking large batches that they split into individual meals -
Each meal contains laban, dates, fruits, water and masala chicken biryani served warm -
Meals are transported by lorry to several sites to be served -
A worker sorts meals as they are loaded on to lorries -
Staff are tasked at each location to distribute the meals -
Volunteers check meals to ensure that they are the correct weight and quality as stated by the catering company -
Men queue for their iftar meal, some arriving four hours before sunset to make sure they get a spot -
Meals consist of masala chicken biryani, water, fruit, dates and laban -
The meals are placed first, after which worshippers file in to take their places for iftar -
They wait for the remaining daylight to fade until the magrib prayer, which denotes the end of the day's fast
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