" I do hope that the war, the Houthi ends": Mrs. Nemah says
English - Saturday 15 December 2018 الساعة 09:49 am
Mocha - Newsyemen
Mrs. Nemah, born in 1950, is a member of the Mocha Coastal district in al-Amoudi neighborhood. She lived near the Sea and the Sand. Before moving to al-Amoudi, including some families in the early years she had married a Republican lawyer, a clerk and a jurist man who married three women.
Newsyemen talked to Mrs. Nemah about her memories in summay for the more her sixty years-old, talking about the Mocha, the Sea, and fishermen, including the people's suffering where a drink of water was a target and a struggle in the difficult circumstances.
A meeting with Mrs. Nemah who hopes today is that " the war ends, the Houthi ends. May Allah take Houthi a way".
How do you remember your childhood?
O My son, our days were dry, imagine that there was no water to drink except in few wells in al-Hali district, a well behind the project or " as we call it now", we were going to bring firewood from al-Qudaimi area.
The men went to the sea and to the coast, there were no machines,' there were only something like what we called it today “a boat”, several straight heavy woods fixed carefully with ropes" or small wood boat, they had nets on the coast to bring fish. It was very heavy.
Where did fishermen sell these fish?
Buyers came from villages and from mountains. They bought fishes, cut and mixed them with salt and some went, the others stayed to dry the fisesh with the salt for three days.
How did you build your houses? Our houses were half nests flooded with sand next to the sea, now the corniche and al-Memlah, the wind was stronger than these days.
Was water a big problem?
Yes, the pure water (drinking water) interested us a lot, and we walked distances further, the water we used in the house work is very easy, every house has its small well but it is salty.
There was a well near al-Shadheli, and the water was not very pure, getting Improving the Mocha district, there was near al-Shadheli a tube in Bait al-Dubakeyah, " the grandmother of al-Sakkaf. The grandmother has a tube from the project. She did not give us water only after we had finished her house' work.
When the project came......We did not get tubes water, they only gave for those who have had money.
One day I remembered we went to bring water from al-Nakhil neighborhood, our companion Mrs. Zahra was about to sink, we saw a young man, we called him to help us. She was saved by the rope the young man threw it at her.
Is this Mocha in that days?
Mocha is the city as it has been before...people are a little despite the buildings and palaces, it was not densely populated.......My grandmother as well as my mother talked to me that all people drank water in Jar in Ottoman Era,……, Nowadays, we are afraid of it a lot, …the small old houses were turned into caves for insane people.
