“Konar Siah” is a remnant of the endless riches of Qeshm Island

“Konar Siah” is one of the villages in the west of Qeshm Island, which, despite being located in the heart of the endless blessings and riches of the land of water and sunshine, its people are deprived of comfort, health and economic facilities. Qeshm Island is located in the Strait of Hormuz, parallel to the shores of the motherland With an area of ​​nearly 1,500 square kilometers, 130 kilometers long and an average width of 11 kilometers, it is not only the largest island in the Persian Gulf, which has an area greater than, equal to or less than 22 independent countries in the world, and it is also 2.5 times the size of countries such as Singapore and Bahrain. .

This island is one of the most strategic islands of Iran and the Pars Sea due to its proximity to the Indian Ocean, the presence of oil and gas resources, petrochemical and refinery units and offshore equipment, and having port facilities. Access to the east-west international flight corridor has a colorful role in global trade and commerce.

On the other hand, the natural and historical features of this island have made Qeshm one of the main tourist destinations in Iran.

In this land full of blessings and wealth, a village called “Konar Siah” is located in Shahab district of Qeshm border city, 110 km from the center of Qeshm city with 120 households and 419 people. It is less privileged and its residents are struggling with many problems due to the lack of facilities.

By being in this village and conducting a face-to-face conversation with its residents and field investigation of people’s problems, I encountered 36 patients with blood pressure, three patients with diabetes, 6 heart, respiratory and blood patients, 6 physically and mentally disabled. who needed immediate and timely psychological, pharmaceutical, social and livelihood support services.

The living conditions of the people of this deprived village are affected by unemployment or low income, and on the other hand, considering that the nearest water softener of Kanaar Siah village is located in Basaeido village, the people of this village have to pay a lot of money to buy water and transport it to this village. Of these needy and less fortunate people, 34 people were covered by the relief committee and 14 people were covered by the welfare of Marzi Qeshm city, whose main need was to receive food packages, livelihood, dairy, underlay and carpets, heaters without wasting time. Electricity, blankets, warm clothes suitable for the season, tankers and drinking water storage tanks, free medical visits (presence of volunteer specialist doctors in the form of health and charity caravans), health packages and construction services including (repair of pipes and fittings and repair of residential houses) .

According to the interviews conducted with a large number of women and elderly people, the living conditions of the people of this deprived village are affected by unemployment or low income, and on the other hand, considering that the nearest water softener of Kanaar Siah village is located in Basaeido village, the people of this village The village has to pay a lot of money to buy water and transport it to this village.

The materials of some houses in this village are made of stone and mud and are more than 40 years old. Due to the low income of the residents of this village, they are not able to repair and renew their houses. Parents should live as 22 families live together as 2 families in one house and 2 families as three families in one house.

According to the field observation of IRNA reporter, there are currently 25 houses in need of repair in this village, 20 half-finished houses, 30 houses in need of kitchen construction, 15 houses in need of bathroom construction, and 15 houses in need of bathroom construction.

The living conditions of the people depend on receiving subsidies paid by the government, so that 6% of the village population is covered by the relief committee, 2% are social security pensioners, 5% are disabled, 6% are orphans, and 7% of the village population are female heads of the household. make.

While preparing the report in the village, we came to the conclusion that the children who look four or five years old are actually eight or nine years old, and the presence of severe malnutrition has caused a disturbance in their growth.

The condition of clothing and clothing of children, especially girls, in addition to the lack of personal and public hygiene due to the lack of electric water heaters and sanitary items for bathing (soap and shampoo) in homes is as bad as their nutrition, so that a number of them suffer from poverty and deprivation. They wear ragged and torn clothes, and their half-naked bodies, feet with cracked heels, and sunburned faces are very painful for them in the more or less annoying cold.

In this village, I go to one of the elderly women living in one of the humblest houses of the village, Konar Siah, and ask “Maryim Imani Gholam” about her problems. Nan Temshi (Tomoshi) says: The main problem of this village is lack of water, poverty and scarcity, unemployment and disease.

While my eyes are all ears and listening to Maryam Bano’s words, I take a closer look at her house, which doesn’t even have a proper mattress on the floor, and from the darkness and blackness of the door and walls, I realize that it never looks like a living place. The flour that this old lady is kneading to make tomoshi bread is not white and turns black. When I wash it more closely, I see that this flour is full of pollution and small insects and cannot be used.

In order not to offend the villager because of this elderly mother and not to tell her directly that this flour and dough cannot be used, I pull myself together and say to her, “Mother, isn’t there a bakery in this village that you can use with this?” She bakes bread for years by the stove and in this dim light of the house, and she tells me again in the dialect of T and Qeshmi that in this village where 120 families and 419 people live, we don’t even have a bakery and most of the women The village bakes bread, benefactors used to bring us flour, but these days, due to economic conditions, they come to us less often.

At a time when even the problems of villages with more than 20 households have been paid attention to, the existence of such problems in this village of 120 households is surprising. It is clear that the existence of such shortages and shortcomings is not acceptable and requires regulatory bodies to investigate why the residents of Konarsiah are left without benefiting from the blessings of Qeshm Island.

While my head is full of pain and my eyes are full of tears, I leave the house of this village lady, but I promise myself and my conscience that by writing this news report, I will remind all the officials of Qeshm Island, Hormozgan Province and even the country and tell them to come. In this day and age, when enemies and ill-wishers are greedy for our land, in order to heal our wounded souls, we should look around us a little more carefully and shake the hands of the fallen who have been given less attention for any reason. Or take the burden off the shoulders of the helpless. Let’s take a good look! Let’s listen a little better! They are not far away! The signs are nearby.

Until I came to my senses and collected my thoughts and senses, I found myself in front of a mother who was looking for her disabled son around the village and its mosque, calling her son loudly, Arif, Arif, where are you, my son? I quickly reached him and after introducing myself and my purpose of being in the village, I said to him, Mother John, who are you looking for in such a hurry and worried?

She introduced herself as “Maryam Marwarid” and stated that my son “Arif Pasban” is disabled in both legs and his eyes are dim. And since he doesn’t have proper shoes and clothes, the only place where he can be found is the Jame Mosque of the village.

On the way of several hundred meters from Arif’s house to the mosque of the village, this less fortunate mother has suffered and asked me to convey her painful voice to the authorities of Qeshm Island and tell them that her son, who is a reciter of the Quran and the muezzin of the village mosque, needs rehabilitation support and It is livelihood.

Together with Arif’s mother, I reached the Jame Mosque in the village, where Arif had taken refuge to reach peace of mind and soul, I called Arif at the threshold of the entrance door of God’s house, and he looked for my voice with narrowed eyes. He turned towards the light and the entrance of the mosque and came towards us with difficulty with his disabled legs and said to me without any preamble, Didi! No one cries for us.

He continued: “Only a boat comes and takes us from one story to another, so that we can fall in love and be lost in legends in search of a cottage that a poet once wrote for his beloved.”

I did not expect such a welcome and poetic and mystic words from his side. In response, I told him that when the earth is full of night and pits, in your longing, my hands are wings, now that I have reached you, I understand in your presence. My love is mute, after hearing and becoming friends with Aref, I promised him that I would be his voice and said goodbye to him and his mother and moved to another side of Konar Siah village.

In this passage, a voice nailed me in my place, a voice and a voice could be heard from inside one of the houses in the village of Konar Siyah, calling Najala, Najala, and Najala was a girl with black eyes and short hair and clothes that were not very suitable. I could understand very well that the effects of malnutrition and poverty have turned off the light in his eyes and turned his childlike freshness and tenderness into a withered flower.

We followed Najala to the door of their humble house, I loudly called for the owner of the house, and in the meantime, I started a conversation with Najala’s sister who introduced herself as “Shiva Ibrahimpour” and she opened her heart and said: All The women and girls of this village are depressed due to poverty and deprivation and they need to receive various psychological, social and cultural support services from the authorities of Qeshm city and the Free Zone Organization.

While I was listening to her and her sister Azar Ibrahimpour’s words and heartache, I promised myself that her voice and that of the other girls and women of this village would be heard by everyone, including Seyyed Parviz Fattah, the head of Mustafafan Foundation. Seyyed Morteza Bakhtiari, head of the Imam Khomeini (RA) relief committee, Ali Mohammad Qadri, head of the welfare organization, and Pir Hossein Koulivand, head of the Red Crescent Society, so that perhaps with their jihad efforts, a knot of the countless problems of the people of Kunar Siah village in the west of Qeshm Island will be opened.

On the 110 km route back from Konar Siah to Qeshm city, I kept thinking about the words of Mehsa Islami, a 9-year-old girl with an indescribable innocence of this village, who said without any introduction when I left the village and got into the car: If He was the martyr of Hajj Qassem Soleimani and he heard the voice of our oppression, lack of water, and poverty, without a doubt he came to our aid and held our hands…

His words hit my head like a sledgehammer and considering the innocence of this village girl and the position of Lieutenant General Hajj Qassem Soleimani in taking care of the needs of the needy on the way back, I whispered to myself, to speak of sincerity, your eyes are the last proof and The decency of your moments is an excuse to write, it should be said about you, it should be written about you, you who are a sibling of the sea and a partner of the beach and pearlless shells.

You who grow together with the sweaty old people of the sea and reach a place where you can forgive the sanctity of love and the smell of dirty air. The simplicity hidden in the depth of your gaze does not need any words to describe it. You are the generosity of the cloud… the feast of the sea… the blessing of the palm grove… You are the very meaning of the word noble and from the blue lineage of the southern heart…

The bright glint of your sad eyes takes the darkness from the night, wakes up the moonlight and spreads silver on the barren soil. Where are your worried eyes now? The barges and boats have left at night and you are calm and patient, as always, with your waiting eyes fixed on the ring of the door.

You have taken the empty jar of the house to the side of the pond and filled it back with water, you have burned incense for the atmosphere of the house and invited the scent of love and affection to the house, the picture of henna that is engraved on your hands, the scent of jasmine is a guest in the space and your look is patient. which flies from the window to the beach, calling the foaming and raging sea of ​​the Persian Gulf to calmness. After all, nothing but a fisherman, breadwinner, water on the waves…

The warmth of your love is known only by the sun of the south, and the palms of the palm grove know your endurance, every trick in the imaginary city is a stranger to your eyes. The blue of the sea and the sky are familiar with your look. Seeing a seagull on the beach is not a dream or a desire to migrate, your familiar voice is an excuse for the migratory birds to return and the water to roll down to the feet of the familiar shore.

It is true that the pen of IRNA’s reporter is unable to write the painful observations of the people of this village, and the moans of old men and women, the cries of thin and weak children, and the silence of young men’s pain, bring tears to every viewer’s face.

Basic civil, health, medical, cultural and social problems are clearly visible everywhere in Konarsiyah village. The children of this village complain about the lack of suitable playgrounds in the village’s children’s park, and their most important childhood wish is to complete the village’s only sports field and make artificial grass.

Carrying out the necessary earthworks and infrastructures for asphalting alleys and roads, providing machinery for civil works, providing school services for students to travel to neighboring villages, along with poverty and scarcity, are other problems of the people of this village in the west of Qeshm Island.

Nakh Kanaar geo site is located on the beach of Kunar Siyah village. The people of this village expect the Qeshm Free Zone Organization to provide the necessary infrastructure for this tourist area in order to improve the economic situation of the village people.

Qeshm Island with an area of ​​1,500 square kilometers from the Strait of Hormuz, parallel to the south coast of Iran, is 135 kilometers long and 11 kilometers wide, and it has a 300 kilometer coastline.

Qeshm city includes the islands of Qeshm, Hengama and Lark with a population of about 150,000 people. It is spread out from the Strait of Hormoz parallel to the coast of Hormozgan province with a length of 150 km and an average width of 11 km in the waters of the Persian Gulf.