Child Hawkers Doing the Nightshift - what do you do ?

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i'd have to say
prostitution maybe the worlds oldest profession
but begging would come in number 2
I have given a few times BUT only to the old old ladies ( why do u seldom see old old men begging ? were they all killed?) and i see the khmers do as well.
kids. nope
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The begging men are usually conspicuously crippled
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mammothboy2 wrote:The begging men are usually conspicuously crippled
Until they get down the road and re-attach their prosthetic leg.



Then there was the time at the beach when the blind man came along singing Khmer songs whilst begging, then, when he was in front of where I was sitting, he began singing in English . . . . . "Oh, yes, I'm the great pretender, . . . ."

I kid you not.
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I guess it was posted somewhere here that all these kids are being controlled by an adult who might have hired them from there parents. I also remembered that there was an article in which a couple arrested for hiring children to sell fruits from them. There were like 30 children in that house when police raided.
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knew a older black man in dc when i was young, used to beg in front of my grandfathers Jewelry store
spent every winter in Florida, told me , "beats working"
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juansweetpotato wrote: Is/has there never been an NGO that has focused on street kids? or is there just no money in it?

There are plenty of them. Mith Samlanh / Friends is one of the better-known ones.
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phuketrichard wrote:knew a older black man in dc when i was young, used to beg in front of my grandfathers Jewelry store
spent every winter in Florida, told me , "beats working"

Times have not changed much. I still see lots of older white men [ and some women ] begging.



Mostly they are begging for your vote. Bloody politicians . [ yea, beats working ]
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