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(10 Apr 2023) LIBYA MIGRANT IFTAR SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS RESTRICTION SUMMARY: LENGTH: 3:15 ASSOCIATED PRESS Misrata, Libya - 5 April 2023 1. Dates and water laid out on table for people who are observing Ramadan fast and will be breaking their fast here 2. Various of man placing juice boxes and spoons on table 3. Table prepared for iftar meal 4. Migrants arriving for iftar meal 5. Various of migrants seated at tables 6. Man placing food on tables 7. Migrants eating 8. SOUNDBITE (English) Mohamed Jat, migrant worker from Pakistan: "This is my fifth time. For five years, I have come here to eat iftar with people." 9. Various of migrants gathering for iftar 10. SOUNDBITE (English) Mohamed Jat, migrant worker from Pakistan: "People here are very good. Libyan people are very good. My friends from Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, Niger and many people here, we feel good." 11. Sign advertising free iftar meal for those who are fasting 12. Migrants talking during iftar, food and water laid out on table 13. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ahmed al-Gaidi, organizer: "This communal iftar has been set up every year since 2008, so for almost 15 years. It aims to feed people who cannot afford to buy iftar, people who are away from home and foreigners. There are also those who are out in the street during iftar time and cannot reach their homes in time for iftar. You will often find those people breaking their fast here with dates and milk." 14. Various of iftar, people eating 15. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Yahya Abdullahi, migrant worker from Nigeria: “I have spent years coming here to break my fast with my Nigerien, Chadian, Egyptian and Sudanese coworkers. We come every day in the blessed month of Ramadan to break our fast with the group." 16. Various of migrants and foreign workers eating 17. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Yahya Abdullahi, migrant worker from Nigeria: "We are all happy with the ambience here and with the fact that we can come here for iftar without any problems. We thank God, and pray that he blesses their (the organizers') children and grants them prosperity." 18. Various of men preparing tables before iftar meal 19. Rows of tables prepared for iftar STORYLINE: Migrants and foreign workers in the Libyan city of Misrata come together in a communal setting to talk and laugh as they eat free iftar meals during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. The initiative is supported by cash donations from locals and by homemade food provided by Libyan women in the city. In the hours before people can break their fast, young people in Misrata work together to set rows of tables and prepare them for the diners. They lay out water, juice and dates first, before bringing out warm food when it is time for people to break their fast at sunset. Mohamed Jat, a migrant worker from Pakistan, has been eating at this iftar gathering for the past five years. "Libyan people are very good. My friends from Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, Niger and many people here, we feel good," he says. Ahmed al-Gaidi, an organizer, says this gathering has been set up during Ramadan every year since 2008. He says the goal is to provide meals to those who cannot afford to buy food, foreigners and anyone who will not make it home in time for iftar. Yahya Abdullahi, a migrant worker from Nigeria, has also been coming to this gathering for years to break his fast with coworkers from Niger, Chad, Egypt and Sudan. =========================================================== Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...