The beggars are organized!!
They touch your arms to get your attention and motion they want food.
They pose in the street a mother holding a son with a bandage on his
head. Kids crowd around wanting coins. These are the begging
syndicate. Beggars who are organized by the able bodied who aim to
profit from the down and out. To aid them in the often lucrative
begging career acid is used to burn out eyes or wounds are opened to
make things look worse. They know how to melt your heart. They know
how to get your dollar.
Watch and you will see signs of the syndicate. Begging children meet
up with an adult to trade information on who gives and who doesn't. An
able bodied person will pull a cart with a legless beggar in it. A
wounded child will still be wearing the same bandage two weeks later.
The beggars don't profit from this their able bodied organizers do.
Give them a banana or food and they will curse you. Offer to buy them
food and they will lead you to a store where the much needed milk
powder costs $10 where it should cost 50c. If you watch closely the
lady beggar in need will sell it back so both the shop keeper and the
begging syndicate profit.
Don't give to those who ask!!!!!!!
With so much poverty and misery it would be a sin to never give. Give
your time by volunteering or even better give to those who don't beg.
Give a banana to someone in the street who looks like he's having
trouble on a day to day basis. Help push a cycle rickshaw up a hill.
Give something to someone collecting rubbish on the street. If you
give to a beggar your thanks will be "Give me more you cheap tourist".
Give to someone in need and the look of appreciation and their thanks
really will melt your heart.
Tyson
In Bundi. Had a goat as a seatmate on the way here.
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