Haia helps woman in shelter to remarry

A woman living in a shelter for victims of domestic violence in Najran has remarried her husband with the generous support of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (Haia) and the Social Affairs Ministry.
This has been a positive event in a somewhat tragic affair for the woman who had been staying in the shelter in Najran with her two children and three sisters after seeking refuge from an abusive father. Their mother is also at the
center.
Midwah Al-Midwah, head of the social affairs department and director of the social committee in Najran, told Arab News recently that the center helped to reunite the woman with her husband. The center and Haia members sponsored the costs of their wedding, SR30,000 dowry, furniture and housing in Al-Kharj governorate where the husband works.
Al-Midwah said the police had rescued the women from the head of the family who had physically abused them over several years, despite signing an undertaking with the police that he would not do so.
The social affairs committee had been trying to help the women. They started by looking at the case of the woman who had been divorced from her husband for over a year.
The center contacted the husband’s employer to ask if he could have time off to get married to his ex-wife. Al-Midwah said the husband had not been able to remarry because he did not have enough money.
The joyous nuptials were held at a wedding hall in the area in the presence of the bride’s happy mother and sisters who will continue to stay at the center until their case is resolved.