In Egypt, volunteers make meals with love for virus patients
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Basma Mostafa, a 30-year-old journalist who founded an initiative that sends freshly home cooked meals to quarantined coronavirus patients, package food at her friend's apartment, in Cairo, Egypt. Saturday, July 11, 2020. Mostafa, who works with others to coordinate the volunteer effort, said she got the idea of helping out when she was going through a difficult time. "I thought that to alleviate my suffering, I can engage with the suffering of others and feel more for them," she said. "I derive my strength and perseverance from the patients." (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)Basma Mostafa, a 30-year-old journalist who founded an initiative that sends freshly home cooked meals to quarantined coronavirus patients, writes in Arabic, "you are not alone, we love you," on a box filled with food at a friend's apartment, in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, July 11, 2020 photo. Mostafa, who works with others to coordinate the volunteer effort, said she got the idea of helping out when she was going through a difficult time. "I thought that to alleviate my suffering, I can engage with the suffering of others and feel more for them," she said. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)Fatma Youssef, a volunteer part of an initiative that sends meals to quarantined coronavirus patients, cooks a meal for a family, in her apartment, in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, July 11, 2020. She and other volunteers in Egypt hope the meals will help nurse quarantined coronavirus patients back to health and provide them with some respite. In different neighborhoods in Cairo and some other cities they've enlisted people to cook, donate food or make contactless deliveries to patients' homes. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)Basma Mostafa, a 30-year-old journalist who founded an initiative that sends freshly home cooked meals to quarantined coronavirus patients, right, and Fatma Youssef, a volunteer, left, package food into boxes, at an apartment, in Cairo, Egypt. Saturday, July 11, 2020. Volunteers in Egypt hope the meals will help nurse quarantined coronavirus patients back to health and provide them with some respite. In different neighborhoods in Cairo and some other cities they've enlisted people to cook, donate food or make contactless deliveries to patients' homes. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)Basma Mostafa, a 30-year-old journalist who founded an initiative that sends freshly home cooked meals to quarantined coronavirus patients, center, and Fatma Youssef, a volunteer, right, package food into boxes, at an apartment, in Cairo, Egypt. Saturday, July 11, 2020. Volunteers in Egypt hope the meals will help nurse quarantined coronavirus patients back to health and provide them with some respite. In different neighborhoods in Cairo and some other cities they've enlisted people to cook, donate food or make contactless deliveries to patients' homes. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)Basma Mostafa, a 30-year-old journalist who founded an initiative that sends freshly home cooked meals to quarantined coronavirus patients, gets from fresh air before packaging food at her friend's apartment, in Cairo, Egypt. Saturday, July 11, 2020. Mostafa, who works with others to coordinate the volunteer effort, said she got the idea of helping out when she was going through a difficult time. "I thought that to alleviate my suffering, I can engage with the suffering of others and feel more for them," she said. "I derive my strength and perseverance from the patients." (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)A man volunteering to deliver meals part of an initiative that sends freshly home cooked meals to quarantined coronavirus patients, puts bags with food into his car, in Cairo, Egypt. Saturday, July 11, 2020. Volunteers in Egypt hope the meals will help nurse quarantined coronavirus patients back to health and provide them with some respite. In different neighborhoods in Cairo and some other cities they've enlisted people to cook, donate food or make contactless deliveries to patients' homes. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
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Basma Mostafa, a 30-year-old journalist who founded an initiative that sends freshly home cooked meals to quarantined coronavirus patients, package food at her friend's apartment, in Cairo, Egypt. Saturday, July 11, 2020. Mostafa, who works with others to coordinate the volunteer effort, said she got the idea of helping out when she was going through a difficult time. "I thought that to alleviate my suffering, I can engage with the suffering of others and feel more for them," she said. "I derive my strength and perseverance from the patients." (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)