Conversation about Parenting and Challenges

Just come here.

Why are you carrying her around like that?

Why are you carrying her around like that?

Her wheelchair is just broken.

Her wheelchair is broken. Is this your daughter?

Is this your daughter? Take this girl.

This girl spoke. This, this is a mic.

My name is Omar, and I want to talk to you for a bit.

Go ahead. Here, take the mic from

me so I can communicate with you

and hear

clearly. Let's see what he'll say.

I only take her out to the square for a little while,

but her wheelchair is

broken, so I carry her.

I took her out.

So this is your daughter. This really is your daughter.

Yes.

And I walk around with her like this in the street.

Yes, man, she means the world to me.

It's very hot.

No, I walk her in the shade.

I don't take her out in the heat.

What made me take her out today

is that the weather is mild.

May God set things right

for you and provide for you.

So where's her mother? Where's her mother?

May God keep her mother away from her.

But why is she afraid to breastfeed?

She left her when she was two years old.

Why doesn't she breastfeed? Why is she afraid?

Huh?

Why is she afraid? Why doesn't she breastfeed?

I’m not afraid of her standing,

I’m just afraid that if I leave her,

she’ll fall.

Yes, she can’t stand.

No, she can’t stand on her own.

Okay.

She can stand on her own. She’s

holding onto me because I’m steady.

I mean, with everything around you,

you’re still a content and happy man.

Yes, thank God.

Really.

Thank God, I swear. But I wish for one thing.

What do you wish for?

I wish I had a business so I

could sit with her by my side.

A business that would let me sit with her by my side.

Something that brings in

income so we can live off it,

because Sahar has a lot of expenses.

That’s true.

That’s your Sahar.

Because she has expenses, she wears Pampers.

And I’m content with whatever God gives us.

Are you staying somewhere?

What?

Are you staying somewhere?

Yes, I live here on Al-Four Street.

Really, what do you do for work?

I don't work. I stay at home.

You stay at home, anyway.

Yes.

So where do you get money from?

I'll tell you.

May God be generous to you.

May God protect you.

God willing, kind people will stand by you.

May God keep you safe,

you and everyone who stands by her.

What can you do?

Anything, any job, as long as I can stay by her side.

You're very kind. It's just a small thing.

Okay, anyway.

Just a small thing.

Get well soon.

And you too.

Okay.

God willing, you're very kind.

How can someone get in touch with you?

How can someone get in touch with you?

Is your number with you on your phone?

Okay, I'll get it from you.

What did Sama go off to do?

What do you want her to do?

You want her to bump into it.

She's just pulling on it.

How is she breaking it?

It's okay, okay, okay. It's fine for her. No problem.

May God bless you, and anyone who stands by her.

But the chair is there.

Yes, the chair is there, but it's broken now.

Let her do whatever she wants. Let her be.

O God, I have accepted all that

You have written for me, so mend

my heart and make what is to come in

my life all good.