{"id":274577,"date":"2016-12-05T16:06:54","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T16:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=274577"},"modified":"2016-12-05T16:06:54","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T16:06:54","slug":"cleaner-in-saudi-arabia-showered-with-gifts-after-social-media-mockery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=274577","title":{"rendered":"Cleaner in Saudi Arabia showered with gifts after social media mockery"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A cleaner in the capital of Saudi Arabia was given a set of gold jewels and promised thousands of riyals after he was ridiculed on social media when a photo of him staring at a\u00a0jewelry\u00a0shop display went viral.<\/p>\n

An Instagram user had mocked the cleaner, who is from Bangladesh but works in Riyadh, by posting the photo with a caption that read “he looks as though he is seeing trash”.
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The comment\u00a0prompted\u00a0an outpouring of support for the cleaner on social media, and Abdullah al Qahtani, the owner of the Twitter account\u00a0Ensaniyat\u00a0(humanitarianism), started a campaign to find the man in the photo.<\/p>\n

“I received\u00a0tons\u00a0of phone calls and messages in response to my tweet. Some were really helpful, while others were claiming that they were the cleaner,” al Qahtani said.<\/p>\n

“But three hours [after] my tweet, which was shared over 6,000 times, we found him,” the 38-year-old businessman told CNN over the phone.<\/p>\n

Twitter users were able to identify the location of the cleaner,\u00a0Nazer\u00a0al-Islam Abdul Karim, from the reflection of the shop glass visible in the photo.<\/p>\n

When al Qahtani posted a new photo of Abdul Karim, people began asking for a way to get in touch him.<\/p>\n

“Some wanted to donate gold sets, others cash, iPhones and Samsung Galaxy phones,” al Qahtani said. “Even a rice company wanted to donate rice bags to\u00a0Nazer\u00a0al-Islam.”<\/p>\n

Turki al-Dajam, an executive at a Saudi sports channel, posted videos on Snapchat showing Abdul Karim choosing a gold set. He also posted photos of the cleaner with his new gifts.<\/p>\n

Abdul Karim, who is 65, told CNN that he was delighted with the gifts. Describing the moment the photo was taken, he said: “I saw a flash. I didn’t know what this was. Then I heard that my photo was in the media.”<\/p>\n

“I was just doing my job as a cleaner in the municipality and found myself in front of the gold shop. I am very happy about the gifts and very thankful.”<\/p>\n

Al Qahtani — who set up the Ensanyat Twitter account to connect social media users with people in need across Riyadh — said it was very endearing to see the amount of solitary from people in Saudi Arabia, but also across the Gulf region.<\/p>\n

“I really wish we can always stay united like this to help people in need,” he told CNN.<\/p>\n

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Source: CNN<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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