Eid can well mean a community feast after every fortnight or month for relatives, friends, neighbors and colleagues - meat for every retirement function or taziyet can be sponsored from proper management of community share and every marriage of the poor and needy  during the year from the share of the poor in qurbani. Eid is an opportunity to enjoy and foster community spirit and service and can well become a key to alleviate poverty, create employment in food sector and ensure food security. A scholarship in kind one may call mutton scholarship can be carved by community for every struggling student. The poor cam be allotted meat budget which they can sell to sponsor their education, medical and other needs. No need to give money but one can issue equivalent of meat to any applicant who can convert it to cash. Let us see how we can turn Eid into a Year-Long Welfare SystemEid can........

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