Sponsor responsible, says NSHR official Okaz/Saudi Gazette JEDDAH – An official of the National Society for Human Rights (NSHR), reacting to Okaz/Saudi Gazette report on the plight of a Chadian woman with three disabled children, has said the sponsor must bear responsibility for the treatment of her children. Ma'toug Al-Shareef, an NSHR official, said if the woman is a legal resident, then regulations make it incumbent on her sponsor to treat the children, according to the medical insurance regulation in force in this regard. However, if she is a violator of the Iqama and labor regulations, then she would be deported to her country along with her children. Aisha Ali Abu Bakor chains her mentally-ill children every day as poverty drives her to work outside from morning to night. She sells salted seeds and earns what is barely enough for her and her family. Muhammad Awad Al-Shehri, Aisha's neighbor, said, “Aisha does not have a husband to help her provide for her kids. She is extremely impoverished and cannot afford to take her kids to the hospital. She was left with no choice but to tie up her kids in chains. She comes back late at night and she can't rest because her kids keep crying out of hunger.” Some poor neighbors share their food with her but in her fridge there is only water and some medicine she gives the children when they are in pain and cry out loud. The eldest of her children is 15 years old. They do not talk and cannot express their needs to their mother, Al
