Showing posts with label Beggars. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Beggars. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Bathroom Scale Beggars; the Reason

When I made the last post, the Bathroom Scale Beggars, I asked, rhetorically, what would make me send a child of mine to beg in the street.

Nasty thing, rhetorical questions.

I did not know that sooner rather than later, it would be answered. By this article on the CNN website.

Boy flees Islamic school that forces African children to beg

Story Highlights

* 1.2 million of the world's children are trafficked to work for the benefit of others

* At least 7,600 child beggars work the streets in Dakar, Senegal, study says

* Study: 90 percent of the boys are sent out to beg under the cover of Islam

* Boys who don't make 72 cent quota stripped, doused with cold water, beaten

Now that I know, what am I going to do about it? Just another of those real life stories to remind me that I live in a jungle. The terrible, real life jungle of life. I am so well off that I am ashamed! But I do have to remember that some are that much worse off than I am.

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