New York - In a program called "Ftouri Ftourek,” meaning “my breakfast is your breakfast,” the Casablanca-based non-profit collects and distributes basic Iftar food items to the city’s needy dwellers.
New York – In a program called “Ftouri Ftourek,” meaning “my breakfast is your breakfast,” the Casablanca-based non-profit collects and distributes basic Iftar food items to the city’s needy dwellers.
In the video below, watch as a traveler named Charlie, on his Walk for Water from Denmark to Tanzania, films members of the HappyNass (Nass means people in Moroccan Arabic) distributing food out to poor and homeless people in Casablanca.
In the video, members of HappyNass explain that their funding mainly comes from family and friends as well as fundraising on social media. The non-profit currently has nearly 11,000 likes on Facebook, where the group routinely posts updates on food preparation and distribution.
One volunteer in the video, when asked why she volunteers with HappyNass, said that it was both because it is a part of her religion and because it feels good to help others.
Though the “Ftouri Ftourek” program currently occupies most of the organization’s time, HappyNass helps the nation’s poor all year long through a variety of different programs and fundraising initiatives.
