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69_ Idris

_I never told my kids what my job was, I never wanted them to be ashamed of me.  When my young daughter asked me about my work, I hesitated to tell her that I was just a manual laborer And before I came home every day, I used to shower in a public restroom, so they wouldn't know what I was doing.

_I wanted to send all of my daughters to school, I wanted to educate them, I wanted them to stand before people with dignity and pride.  I didn't want anyone to look at them with contempt, like people do to me, they always insulted me.

_I saved every possible penny of my income for my daughters' education.  I never bought a new shirt, instead I was buying their textbook.  "Respect" This is what I wished for me to do, in fact, I was a janitor.

_The day before my first daughter was due in college, I couldn't afford the admission fee, I couldn't work that day.  So I sat next to the trash, trying to hide my tears.  My colleagues were looking at me, but no one approached me or tried to talk to me.  She had failed to fulfill her dream of going to college, and I was feeling sad and heartbroken.  I don't know how I will confront my daughter today and how I will answer her when she asks me for that money as soon as I enter the house ..

I was born poor, and I believed that nothing good could happen to a poor person, especially someone like me.  After work, he approached all my colleagues and before they spoke anything, they sat next to me on the ground and asked me: Do you consider us to be your brothers !?  Before I answered, I found them paying me their wages for their work that day.  And when I refused, they confronted me, saying, "We will be hungry today if necessary, but our daughter must go to university." I cried and I could not refuse.

_On that day, I didn't go to the shower like I used to before returning home.
I'm back as the dirty cleaning agent I always was.

_Now, here is my daughter, on the verge of finishing her college studies.
Three of them wouldn't let me go to work again.
My daughter now has part-time work alongside the university and the other three have free college scholarships.

_Sometimes my daughter takes me to my old workplace, in order to cater to all of my old colleagues.
They laugh and ask her: Why do you keep serving us all this food ?!

_My daughter told them: "You all got hungry one day so that I could be who I am now, so pray to God for me to be able to feed you all every day."

_Now I no longer feel like a poor person.  How can I be poor when I have children like these.❤

- Idris