She explains how one proprietor was persuaded that the children needed a party: An example of such a kindergarten is the Khalid bin Al Waleed Islamic Kindergarten, which up until two days before its party had no intention of holding one, according to Mariam Abu Alkhair, the proprietor. … She says that many people were not able to pay the fees owed the kindergarten for their children, and that she hadn’t intended to hold a celebration because of economic hardship and transportation difficulties, and the general state of depression suffered by all. However, after receiving telephone calls from some mothers, she sympathised with their request to give the children the fun they had been denied for a long time.