Allah Ywafgak
Is it just me, or there is a big spike in begging in the streets of Amman ? I just took 3 minutes walk, from office, to super market, back to the office, and I was stopped and interrupted by: One Young Man who need 1JD to get back to Gwaismeh (Meskeen, Magtoo3, and can only use taxis it seems), 2 ladies ( separately) - each with a baby- asking me for money to feed the baby, and last, one lady without a baby (maybe it is not her turn to use the baby today).
If there is one thing that I believe in more than Open Source, then it is that those beggars are big manipulative liars, every and each one of them, no exclusions.. and they come in different packages:
- This-is-my-first-time-asking-for-money needing money for transportation type
- Feed my baby (using own or rented baby)
- I lost a leg, or can’t walk type (there is this one in Shmaisani that I see in the same place for years, near the bird park)
- knock-knock-give-me-food-at-Iftar-time-in-Ramadan type
- and so on
There are many other derivatives and mixtures of the above basic-types.. it can differ according to location, such as in front of a mosque, or near the burier places at funeral times, and so on.. and they are all big “thin” liars.. call me cruel, but I would never give a penny to any of them. If one is to help, then there are trusted organization, that take donations, and take the extra effort of checking the illegibility of those asking for money, and it is those organization that should be given money regularly, and not those pretending to wipe your windshield at a traffic light.
Allah ywafegko, don’t give money to any of those..
PS. to check the street I got 4 beggars in less than 100 meters, it is near the fifth circle, in front of the Sheraton.. Near Hotels .. mm.. interesting coincident ..
At least they say allah ywafgak,give.
if everybody stops giving those money they will jsut disapear, as long as their bussiness is running, they will expand..
a woman came beggining, she was like 30 or so, we told her why dont u work: she said i cant find work, we said ok help us clean the house for 2 hours and we will pay u, she refused saying shes tired!!!
if u wanna do good, go 2 chairity, there are alot of poor people at their homes, never give those in the street…
Well, I noticed this when I was in Amman last year and in Aqaba as well. Ljubljana has beggars, but not as many. Interestingly enough, the most I have ever seen was in Montreal, Canada. It was really unbelievable and something once happened to me to lead me to believe that Lammoush is right. On more than one occassion when walking the streets of Montreal this summer, I was approached my many beggars who were not locals. One guy had come from Chicago, another from NYC, a few guys from other Canadian cities… and the reason they came to Montreal? “Because they heard that beggars make a lot of money there”. (brings new meaning to the concept “labour migration”).
Well, I rarely give them money…normally I ask if they are hungry and if so, perhaps buy them a sandwich or something… But seeriously, people in Montreal have always been quite generous with panhandlers and perhaps this is why there are more and more of them every year… this is why they have to be creative : http://betqa.blogspot.com/2006/07/art-of-begging-in-montreal.html
I used to feel sorry for them but I found out they are liars..once i was stopped by a woman with a baby and she asked me for mony to feed her son(the baby was wearing pink and with an earring ) I told her hey mish 3arfeh sho 7amelh b eedek??
.I never give money to women with children..once a woman was offered a job paying 90 jds working in a factory..she laughed and said..90? thats one day work..at least
what scares me is seeing little girls in the streets at nite..they are at grave danger,I saw one the other day she was a pretty 1 year old and two men in a car just kept talking to her..
now selling 3elket sha3rawi is another way to beg
the only people I give money to are old people,i don’t care if they are liars or not but at their age they are supposed to be home resting not wandering in the streets
http://xlubnax.blogspot.com/2006/08/bunch-of-wrong-decisions.html
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