The bikers from Hope Bikers Syria head out as sunset approaches, racing to hand over the food so Muslim recipients can break their daytime fast
Members of motorcycle club Hope Bikers Syria help prepare distribute "iftar" fast breaking meals during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan, in Damascus.
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Every evening during Ramadan, members of a motorbike club zip down the streets of Damascus to deliver meals to those in need during the Muslim holy month.
"We hit the most disadvantaged areas," said Tarek Obaid, head of Hope Bikers Syria, whose 50 volunteers make and distribute the food for various charities in the Syrian capital.
The bikers—some sporting beards or wearing large silver rings on their fingers—head out as sunset approaches, racing to hand over the food so Muslims recipients can break their daytime fast.
The volunteers don their club's signature blue vest, the front and back embroidered with their emblem: a flaming motorbike and the Syrian flag.
They help out for "humanitarian or moral" reasons, said Obaid, a swimming coach in his fifties who supervises the Ramadan rounds.