Iraqi Shia Muslim Widows and Orphan Children Receive Eid Zakat (Charity)

Shia Muslim children and women gather at a school in the impoverished Sadr City district of eastern Baghdad, on 6 December 2008.

Some 192 women whose husbands were killed and children who lost both parents in the violence that has racked this city since the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, gathered to receive a parcel of clothes and some money donated by Islamic charities for the up and coming Muslim Eid al-Adha.