I am born and
brought up in India and have been lucky to be born in a family that provided me
everything. If you ask the general public to tell you what are the biggest
problems faced by India that hinder it's capability to be conceived as a developed nation, most of the answers
would include 'poverty' as a factor. I am writing this to share my views on how
to eradicate certain types of poverty stricken groups. Namely the 'beggars at
traffic lights'. I am writing this having no knowledge or stats about the
clockwork of the traffic light beggar community so I am very much open to
criticism and corrections. As a layman in writing, I have written what I feel
about them and what should be done.
I am using the term
clockwork because anyone who has seen the traffic light beggars day in and day
out can tell you on the basis of common sense that they have an organized
system behind them which dictates the lives of these beggars. We all have seen
the movie slumdog millionaire, in which we see little children taken from the
slum area's of Mumbai and forced into a life of begging on the streets. That
movie even sheds light on the harsh reality that children are mutilated (
single eye amputation was shown in the movie, but that's only if they are lucky
) so as to increase the grief in the hearts of the daily commuters. The
scenario is unimaginable and inhuman. I have personally scene half naked
children with a burnt eye being handed a cup and told to go ask for money. The
pain I feel at the lose of life and the suffering one has to go through. What
does a child has anything to do with the issue imposed on him. He can barely
speak and they want him to go to cars with a steel cup and beg for money he doesn't
even get to use.
Since a kid I always
thought ill grow up to be a philanthropist or make it a part time work or just
do something about it because I am up to the neck with seeing children suffer.
I see one solution to this problem. DO NOT GIVE THEM MONEY. Its is very hard
for me to look away from begging children saying stuff like " dede baba ,
subha see pani nahi piya" ( please sir give me something, I haven't drank
water since morning ) or "bachee ko kuch khila denge " ( give us
something to feed the child, while holding an infant in her arm ). But I
realize that we are ones who promoted this business to such a level. The top
head of these hoards of nationwide beggars might claim to be taking care of
them but they just want to make the money, they don’t value life. They value
money.
Now when I am in a
car at a traffic light I do not care how much the person outside is suffering,
I would not give them money. In a way, giving them money promotes their
ideology not changing their lives. I am not against them living. I am against
their trend of living which is a black
hole to other poor and orphaned children. I am saying don’t give them money
because 10 years from now I don’t want more children to suffer. Suffer only
because we were supporting them in the first place. I want this to stop !!! And
that would not happen unless the traffic light charity stops. I say even if
they annoy the living hell out of you, make you guilty beyond your limits
please just bear it for 2 minutes and let the light turn green.
Like I said before I
am not against them living. If you feel like helping a fellow out give to
proper charities that help empower and employ the poor or instead of money give
them a small bottle of water ( without the cap ) or a packet of biscuits. But please
do not give them money. That same money goes to hiring ( I originally used the terms , hiring
"idiotic doctors" but then I realized they are far from doctors and
then choose a term more apt) monsters who preform mutilations on children
. I urge all the readers to fight fire
with fire. Please don’t promote this business anymore. Screw whatever bad
things they say if we don’t give them money. Understand they are not educated
and cannot get out of this circle but we can prevent others from getting into it.
This according to me is one solution to endless nonsensical suffering.
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