Cambodian child beggars in HCM City.30/10/2009
VietNamNet Bridge – A small group of Cambodian child beggars have appeared in HCM City in recent months.
At 6pm at a crossroads on Dien Bien Phu street, three kids in ragged and dirty clothes, holding plastic bowls stand at traffic lights asking for small change.
The two older children collect the cash while a much younger child lies naked on the pavement.
They eventually disperse when they hear a police whistle. Next day they are back – but this time the group includes six children and two women.
The two women sat on the pavement while six children divided into three groups, work around the roundabout of Dien Bien Phu street.
From asking around reporters traced them back to a marshy piece of land along the Nguyen Huu Tho road, District 7, which looks like a dumping ground. There are several tents made of coconut leaves and a small house.
Local residents say the house owner pitied the children so he allowed them to live in the house free. They also said that there are over 50 Cambodian people who have been living in this area for around 7 months.
A Cambodian man, who can speak a little Vietnamese, told VietNamNet that they came from Cambodia and they often return home each 3-4 months.
These Cambodian earn their living by collecting waste and begging.
Local government has several times sent them back home but they returned, said Tran Mong Thanh, chairman of Tan Hung ward. Thanh said there are many other Cambodians in HCM City, not only in his ward.
Mai Thi Hoa from the HCM City Department of War Invalids and Social Affairs said that under the HCM City’s regulations, all beggars will be gathered at social patronage centres and then be sent back to their homes.
At 6pm at a crossroads on Dien Bien Phu street, three kids in ragged and dirty clothes, holding plastic bowls stand at traffic lights asking for small change.
The two older children collect the cash while a much younger child lies naked on the pavement.
They eventually disperse when they hear a police whistle. Next day they are back – but this time the group includes six children and two women.
The two women sat on the pavement while six children divided into three groups, work around the roundabout of Dien Bien Phu street.
From asking around reporters traced them back to a marshy piece of land along the Nguyen Huu Tho road, District 7, which looks like a dumping ground. There are several tents made of coconut leaves and a small house.
Local residents say the house owner pitied the children so he allowed them to live in the house free. They also said that there are over 50 Cambodian people who have been living in this area for around 7 months.
A Cambodian man, who can speak a little Vietnamese, told VietNamNet that they came from Cambodia and they often return home each 3-4 months.
These Cambodian earn their living by collecting waste and begging.
Local government has several times sent them back home but they returned, said Tran Mong Thanh, chairman of Tan Hung ward. Thanh said there are many other Cambodians in HCM City, not only in his ward.
Mai Thi Hoa from the HCM City Department of War Invalids and Social Affairs said that under the HCM City’s regulations, all beggars will be gathered at social patronage centres and then be sent back to their homes.
10 comments:
How do they know those are Cambodian?
And they are bagar?
Theu may not Cambodian OR Cambodian who are going for PhD!
Look! Thery may be the future PM of Cambodia, Dude!
They appear normal and healthy kids walking in Prey-Nokor, a Khmer city and always will be.
This is what I don't understand and after all these years of AH HUN SEN government of adopting the so called brotherly love, neighborly love and cooperate with the Vietcong in all fields and why Cambodia remain dirt poor?
Somehow the so called cooperating with the Vietcong government is to take advantage of Cambodia and Cambodian people and why do I say this because the number doesn't add up! Cambodian people have become a useless people who can produce anything from toothpick to plastic bowl! Why Cambodian people choose to be consumer and not producer? Well...Maybe because education under AH HUN SEN is suck which train people to be a slave worker and a beggar! There is more to life than this!
people are people, stop blaming on gov't, stupid people! don't you understand society? mr. hun sen is not god and thus, he can't fix everything for everybody, you know! there are beggars and homeless people in every country in the world, you know, unless you are ignorant and haven't travel the world to see that, really! so, don't be biased with cambodia, it won't help solve anything, really! instead, why not try to help educate people. hey, there are viet beggars in cambodia too, you know! what do you say about that? wake up, people, don't be so ignorant!
Beggars are every where. Don't look people above you, look at people below you like the starving in Africa for example
i know, i saw a lot of homeless viets and beggars viets on cambodia's tonle sap floating village and streets of phnom penh, too; so, what are they complaining about, really!
These kids are not cambodian? they probably from Mongtanard tribe, don't just calls everythings on cambodia...?
hun sen ,pol pot disgrace all of khmer citizens.
God in heave,if these kids are really Cambodian, please bring them back to their homeland for there is nothing like home. I am now living abroad and i know what it is like to live in other's country. The feeling is not the same, it is like a black sheep of the family. If khmer people don't love its own people, no one in the world will love them. Please, bring them home for us if you see my khmer kids, I don't want them to go through like I do. My heart has always been broken and unable to answer or adopt in any of culture for I am considered as loss child living abroad. The life style full of loneliness and is much sadness. Oh god please bring my Cambodian children. Amen
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