Why is
sleeping child in the hands of beggars? Have you ever wondered …
This is an article I came across months ago. We are not sure
of the author. However we’ve checked the authenticity of this with our
followers in Bangkok and Cambodia. Surprisingly this seems to be true and their
request is only to offer beggars with food and water and not money. Any hlp you
can do in terms of their needs are just fine. But make sure you do not hand
over big bills that will keep the begging industry going. You should be wise
enough to know whom to help and how to help. Make your decision based on the
situation and knowing it well enough.
“”Near the metro station sits a woman of uncertain age. Women’s
hair is confused and dirty, her head bowed in grief.
The woman sits on the dirty floor and next to her lies a
bag. In that bag people throw money. On the hands of a woman, asleep, is a two
year old baby. He’s in a dirty hat and dirty clothes.
“Madonna with baby” – numerous passers-by will donate money.
The people of our kind- we always feel sorry for less fortunate. We are ready
to give unfortunate people the last shirt, the last penny out of your pocket
and never think another issue. Helping, seems like. “Good job done”…
I walked past a beggar for a month. Did not give any money,
as I knew that this is a gang operated scam and money collected by the beggar
will be given to whoever controls beggars in the area. Those people own
numerous luxury properties and cars. Oh and beggar also gets something, of
course “ A bottle of vodka in the evening and a döner kebab”. A month later,
walking past the beggars, as shock, it suddenly hit me….
I’m staying at a busy crossing, stared at the baby, dressed
as always- dirty track suit. I realized that it seemed “wrong”, finding a child
in a dirty underground station from morning to evening. The baby slept. Never
sobbed or screamed, always asleep, burying his face in the knee of a woman who
was his MUM.
Do any of you, dear readers, have children? Remember how
often they slept at the age of 1-2-3 years? Hour two, maximum three (not
consecutive) afternoon nap, and again – movement. For the whole month, every
day of my walking in the underground, I’ve never seen a child awake! I looked
at the tiny little man, with his face buried in the knee of his mother, then at
the beggar, and my suspicion was gradually formed. – Why he sleeps all the
time? I asked, staring at the baby.
The beggar pretended not to hear me. She lowered her eyes
and hid her face in the collar of her shabby jacket. I repeated the question.
The woman again looked up. She looked somewhere behind my back, tired with
utter irritation. Her look was similar to the creatures from a different
planet. – F *** off … her lips murmured. -Why is he asleep?! I almost cried …
Behind me someone put his hand on my shoulder. I looked
back. A some old man was looking at me disapprovingly:
– What do you want from her? Can’t you see how hard she’s
got it in her life… Eh …
He gets some coins from his pocket and throws them in the
beggar’s bag.
Beggar made a hand wave of a cross, portraying the face of
humility and universal grief. The guy removed his hand from my shoulder and
strolled out of the underground station. I bet, at home, he will tell how he
defended poor, distraught woman from a soulless man in a tube station.
Next day I called a friend. It was a funny man with eyes
like olives Romanian nationality. He only managed to complete three and a half
years of education. The complete lack of education does not prevent him from
moving around the City streets on very expensive foreign cars and live in a
“small” house with countless number of windows and balconies. From my friend I
managed to find out that this business, despite the apparent spontaneity, clearly
organized. Its supervised by begging organized crime rings. The children used
are in “rent” from families of alcoholics, or simply stolen.
I needed to get the answer to the question – why is the baby
sleeping? And I received it. My friend Gypsy said the phrase, completely
ordinary with calm voice that twisted me in shock, just like he was talking
about weather report: -They are on heroin, or vodka …
I was dumbfounded. “Who is on heroin? Whom – under vodka?! ”
He answered -The Child, so he doesn’t scream. The women will be sitting whole
day with him, imagine how he might get bored?
In order to make the baby slept the whole day, it pumped up
with vodka or drugs. Of course, children’s bodies are not able to cope with
such a shock. And children often die. The most terrible thing – sometimes
children die during the “working day”. And imaginary mother must hold another
dead child on her hands until the evening. These are the rules. And the by
passers-by will throw some money in the bag, and believe that they are moral.
Helping “mother alone” …
… The next day I was walking near the same underground
station. I stocked up journalistic identity, and was ready for a serious
conversation. But the conversation didn’t work out. But turned out the
following … A woman was sitting on the floor and in her hands she was holding a
child. I asked her a question about the documents on the child, and, most
importantly, where was yesterday’s kid, which she simply ignored. My questions
were not ignored by passers-by. I was told that I was out of my mind screaming
at poor beggar with a child. All in all, I was escorted out of the tube station
in disgrace. One thing remained was to call the police. When police arrived,
beggar with the baby disappeared. I stood with a full sense of – “I’m trying to
fight windmills”.
When you see in the subway, on the street whether women with
children, begging, think before your hand climb for money. Think about that, if
it wasn’t for your hundreds of thousands of handouts, the business like this
would have died. The business would die and not the children-inflated with
vodka or drugs. Do not look at the sleeping child with affection. See horror…
Since you’re reading this article, you know now- why the child is sleeping in
beggars hands.
P.S.
If you copy this article on your wall or just click “Share”,
your friends will read it too. And when you decide again to open your wallet to throw a
coin to a beggar, remember that this charity could cost another child’s life.”
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