I'll try not to eat while walking at the street!

Oh yeah some beggars are very rude and they look at you when you eat and then follows the stomach ache. Gosh I seriously think I am not going to entertain beggars anymore. I feel sorry and I give then money but from now on it is a No to all beggar. I think we are the ones encouraging them to beg by giving them alms. I must come to an end. I Fiji we have less beggar but some are very rude. If you give them 5 cents or something they will not take it. They demand more than a dollar. They must be taught lesson. Money is not growing on tree that we pluck to give them. As we work hard, they too can work hard. I think there should be very strict rules on them. Here in Goa they go after the tourists and will not leave them. people come from different places to have good time here but the beggars are lot letting the tourists to move freely. It is disgusting when I see it and when they come after me. I feel like screaming on top of my voice. Yesterday I went to town and this small kid is coming after me and touching me to ask money. he was so dirty I tell you and i don't like them touching me. I went mad. I am going to propose this Idea to my husband who is a youth leader for a political party to see on this matter. This should come to end now. thanks for sharing and have a wonderful day ahead.

Normally I don't eat on the roads unless I feel so hungry. But in the last 2 months time, I took 2-3 biscuits immediately just step out of the office, as I was hungry and I felt shame to do so, as people walk around will notice that I am eating and walking, which I don't like. 2 days before also, i was waiting for a bus, and it was supposed to arrive in 10-15 mts. and I though I will have a ready-made banana chips, which I like. Normally if it happens, I will eat half and the rest I will keept for my daughter. But on that day, I was just waiting outside the ticket counter and there are people stand on the Q for tickets and one beggar was sitting on a corner. I noticed him, looking so thin and pale with long hair and beared and was looking here and there. I decided to eat half of it and won't keep the rest for my daugher, instaed I will give it to the beggar. He didn't even notice that I was eating the chips. Howeve, I turned to him and given the rest of the packet to him. He was so happy and started eating looking at me. I just moved out of the place and when I reach at home, my daugher was searching all over the bag, for some thing, which she didin't got anything and I didn't tell about what I did also. Any way, it is upto our choice whether we should eat or if anything left out we can give to beggars or not. But if there is an occasion I am eating and someone ask me, I will definitely give to them, whoever is asking for my share.

I also experience this one. While I am at the park in front of municipal hall, there are many beggars there asking for food. I did not gave them because once you give one, all of them will ask you. furthermore, there are some that I haven't opened the food, they are already asking to give it to them. I didn't even gave coins for the same reason. Once you give them coins, they will ran to their parents just sitting nearby and give the money to them. One of the best way to let them away from you is just telling them you will bring them to DSWD.

We are forbidden to give anything to street children especially those on the street. It poses more danger to them than help. The more we give, the more they are encourage to stay on the street. That's the reasoning of the government. One time i was driving on my way to Robinson's mall. My car's door lock automatically lock those of the passengers except mine. And i have forgotten to do that. I was with friends in the car and we were stopping for traffic when I saw this boy knocking on my car window begging for money. Suddenly he opened my car door and when i tried to close it, he stopped me from doing so. It took me about three minutes to finally pull the door close and lock it. From then on, I've always made sure i lock my door.

Hi, Its a sad scenario, these beggars on the streets. I can't imagine what would I feel if I were in their shoes. Nobody to blame really, except the one who patronize them by giving something out of pity. There shall be no begging if there shall be no giving. The act of charity should be given elsewhere but not on the streets, it only create more problems than it can solve. Had we exerted more effort to strengthen the family, the basic unit of society, there would be no problem with minor going astray. Their parents themselves are victims of wrong ideals and a corrupt system that foster hopelessness and complacency.

Oh yes. I was from the mall on the way to the public ride waiting area. I was eating a cup of salad that i bought because i was in a hurry to go home and is so hungry. While at the jeepney, a girl who is a beggar keeps asking for my food. I told her no, but she keeps insisting. But i didn't give it to her, because i am still so hungry. Had she asked politely i wold have given her money instead. But i realized that doing so , would encourage them more to beg. So, i didn't.

So far I have not experience that one. I think it's because I do not eat while walking on the streets myself. I guess these street kids are getting more darer each day since I saw on TV that crime rates committed by younger kids are becoming rampant because they knew that they would not be imprisoned once caught. So I can just imagine that this kids begging would do the same as well.

my youngest son was a slow eater as a kid so one time we have to take out his food as we are in a hurry. Once outside a beggar ask for his food so I gave him my son's partly eaten burger for my son had already eaten something inside also. The beggar still pointed to the drinks my son is holding but my son shaked his head meaning he needs the drinks too. I was surprised when the beggar (a kid too maybe a year or two older than my son) grabbed the cup of drinks from my son's hand and run. Sad to realize that these kids had to resort to such actions to fill up their needs. Best one could do if experiencing similar rudeness is to avoid them for who knows what will happen next if you accost one of them. I've witnessed an incident where a man was mauled by a group of bystanders because he reprimanded somebody and those maulers were maybe his companions.

I have experienced that many times when I was a student. Now, I only eat when I'm with someone.

I was once eating in a restaurant canteen style beside a large glass window over looking a street when all of a sudden heads of street children started popping up on the glass( so many of them) like a giant aquarium, if there is one thing i can't stand is people staring at me while i'm eating, I pity them but I thought this is not the time for them to do this, good thing the guard shooed them away,I wonder if there was no glass

I have learned a few lessons similar to your experience. Every time I use the overpass in front of a mall in Cavite, there are lots of kids asking for alms and if they see you with some food, some would just grab it from your hands like what happened to me lately. I pity these children but I have since stopped giving money. They have this wrong perception that they can easily earn a living by begging on the streets, inside public transports and foot bridges. Children between the ages of 5 to 10 years old would just hand us a crumpled white envelope and expect us to put some money inside and the authorities do not seem to mind. December is the month when this situation gets worse especially in the areas adjacent to malls. If we condone these kids and continue on giving them money, they will continue with this wrong attitude of expecting handouts from people who work hard to earn a living. These kids think that that begging is the easiest way to make a living.

The government needs to work more, it is not their fault to be a beggar. My concern, the children should not be on the streets. They should be catered by social services, if the parents can not do their parental responsibilities.

Oh yeh..There are poor peopke who need foid but no my food .Who will help these poor people.?

it is not really not easy to deal with the problem the beggar. Once i walk on the street, i also give food to them. There so many beggar in big cities. It is really a strange phenomenon.

I've experienced beggars in my lifetime, but never one that bold before! The extent of my experience is someone with a sign asking for money and they might verbally ask as they hold the sign too, other than that I haven't experienced such a thing.

This has never happened to me, but I try not to eat while walking around. I feel sorry for people who don't have enough to eat or drink, but I still think it's rude of them to demand food from you.

Oh once or twice I've seen something like that scenario - kid beggars harassing passers-by who are munching something while walking. I wouldn't mind giving my food to them if they really need it. I wouldn't mind handing out some coins either, but I have observed that most of them do not know how to say thank you. I try not to take that seriously because considering their background, I don't think a lot of them have been taught to gracious with other people so I would expect them to be brusque. Though I think sometimes you'd have to remind them to say thank you when they receive some food or money from generous strangers. But yeah, I would do the same thing - not eat while walking and wait till I can get to a place where I can sit down properly to eat.

I don't like eating while walking but usually when i'm hungry i buy a banana-q when i left work in the afternoon and eat it while on the way. And there had been several instances where a child comes up to me and asks for the food, there was even a time that as I was crossing the street, a barker came near me and asked for the banana. what i usually do, is eat the other banana and give the other one to the beggar.

hi there laniekins, i have also experienced almost the same thing. but what i have encountered was, when i have tried to give a food to the child who approaches me, there was another child went on asking again for a food. then, it was repeated three times until i noticed that they are a lot. i was quite shocked when they are coming in group. i never thought that if you let one child to feed then it will be repeated more and more. wow, i was surprised. so after that, i never give again. if there are street children who approach me and ask for alms, either money or food, i don't give anything. as i don't want to happen that previous situation before. that the beggar comes one after another.

This is true. I have also experienced this. It does get annoying when they are so persistent. If you ever want to give them something, give them food but never money because these kids are part of a syndicate. Those heads of the said syndicate are the ones earning from these beggars so if we give them money then it is like promoting the syndicates. They will not stop this if they knew that they are earning from it.