In Homage to our Mothers
Mothers in Algeria have always played a leading role within their family, but also in society as a whole.
Organizing family life, managing its economic subsistence and its social role, they guarantee the transmission of ancestral values and respect for traditions which reflect the Algerian personality.
Through the education of their children, they ensure their development and their physical and moral well-being and prepare them to assume the responsibilities of future adults who have a role to play in building the country.
During the War of National Liberation, they had to compensate for the absence of husbands and sons engaged in the ranks of the FLN or the ALN for the independence of the country.
They will courageously defend their families and their villages. They will face the barbarity of the occupier, will take up arms to defend the country and will distinguish themselves by their heroic resistance when they join the maquis.
To ensure the subsistence of their families, they will strive, in these times of scarcity imposed by the colonizer who seizes the wealth of the country and the richest plots of land, to cultivate arid plots of land to obtain a meager source of subsistence.
The day after independence, many will find themselves widows of shahids.
They will sometimes have lost their husband and son who fell on the field of honor, but will nevertheless rise to the challenge and once again assume the responsibilities of head of the family, as well as a leading role in the economic development of the country.
Universally, mothers are celebrated every year in the month of May. The idea of this holiday was mentioned in France by Napoleon in 1806 and instituted in 1941 under the Vichy regime, while in the United States, Mother's Day was celebrated from 1912 and in Great Britain from 1914.
Organizing family life, managing its economic subsistence and its social role, they guarantee the transmission of ancestral values and respect for traditions which reflect the Algerian personality.
Through the education of their children, they ensure their development and their physical and moral well-being and prepare them to assume the responsibilities of future adults who have a role to play in building the country.
During the War of National Liberation, they had to compensate for the absence of husbands and sons engaged in the ranks of the FLN or the ALN for the independence of the country.
They will courageously defend their families and their villages. They will face the barbarity of the occupier, will take up arms to defend the country and will distinguish themselves by their heroic resistance when they join the maquis.
To ensure the subsistence of their families, they will strive, in these times of scarcity imposed by the colonizer who seizes the wealth of the country and the richest plots of land, to cultivate arid plots of land to obtain a meager source of subsistence.
The day after independence, many will find themselves widows of shahids.
They will sometimes have lost their husband and son who fell on the field of honor, but will nevertheless rise to the challenge and once again assume the responsibilities of head of the family, as well as a leading role in the economic development of the country.
Universally, mothers are celebrated every year in the month of May. The idea of this holiday was mentioned in France by Napoleon in 1806 and instituted in 1941 under the Vichy regime, while in the United States, Mother's Day was celebrated from 1912 and in Great Britain from 1914.