She grew up in the desert and did not fast Ramadan in the first years of her menstruation; what should she do?

Question:
May Allah reward you with good and do you well. She says: I am forty years old, and my period started at the beginning of my life when I was thirteen years old. I did not fast the month of Ramadan that year, nor the year that followed, due to ignorance. I did not inform my family, and because they were living in the desert. She fasted fifteen days of it. Now she asks you, Shaykh Salih, what is required of her? May Allah reward you with good.

Answer:
This issue is frequently asked about, especially regarding women who grew up in the desert due to ignorance of religious matters and the negligence of their guardians toward them. It is obligatory for this questioner to make up the fasts, fasting the two Ramadans she left off after reaching the age of menstruation. In addition to that, she must feed a poor person for each day for the delay, in the amount of half a sa' for each day, one and a half kilograms of food for each day. If she combines these daily expiations into one sum and gives it to a poor person, or to the people of one household, there is no harm in that. Yes.