Children are having fun for Eid with primitive means of entertainment that do not go beyond ropes attached to tree trunks or iron poles installed together using the welding method inside one of the squares in the city of Hotat Lahj.

This is the case of Eid for the children of the popular and poor areas of Lahj, whose families were forced to take them to primitive entertainment areas that are formed temporarily with each occasion, forced, but not given the choice, to resort to them due to the lack of entertainment places within their city.

Ammar Halim, a young man in his thirties, takes his two children to one of the primitive entertainment arenas in the city of Al-Houta. He says that although our city is only a few kilometers away from Aden, we are living a life that is a century behind the world. He adds that there are no entertainment places or arenas that can be An outlet for children to have fun, and if we take the initiative to head to the entertainment centers and parks in Aden, we change our minds as soon as we remember the financial costs that burden our poor pockets, as the salary is not sufficient for all these requirements.

To this, Maryam’s mother stands watching her three children having fun on one of the (swings). Her apprehensive look at the place is a darker picture than any of the words she mentions. We interrogated the silence inside her to say: I fear the primitiveness of the means of entertainment for children, as donkeys roam the square and dangerous ropes attached to the trunks of trees are sneaking around. Little ones have moments of joy that make you feel as if you are still in ancient times and not in a time of development and progress.

She adds, where is the role of the local authority in the city, and where is the governor of Lahj in regard to his parishioners in this city that has been defeated to the extent of its description, and points out that my husband is a member of the military institution, with a salary of “58” thousand Yemeni riyals. I do not have the ability or money to take my children to play outside the walls. City.

Osan, a young man in his twenties, said that he found in the courtyards of the Andalus Park in the Sultan Abdali Palace in the city a door to temporary livelihood. He said that despite the passage of nine years since the last war, the new officials did not take the initiative to build recreational places for the residents of our city while at the same time providing job opportunities for a number of unemployed youth. .

While Abu Mustafa wonders about the feasibility of having entertainment places and parks for the poor who cannot afford to have his children play with games under the phrase (everything for money).

He says that I am a father of two children and I do not have anything to pay them, including the retirement pension that I receive as a disabled person. Walking in entertainment places consumes my monthly salary, so I come to the playgrounds near my house to convince my children that (Happy Eid).