Friday, November 19, 2004

the beggar children

there are these children that beg at chung lin. i have been thinking about them alot. i think i wrote about them on here b4. not sure. but they are stuck in my mind. there is a boy and a girl. they look related, like bro n sis. but i cud b wrong. the girl has mutated hands n fingers and half of her nose is missing :-( she lies on her stomach, like, as if she cant walk with rope tied around her waste. the rope is then tied around the boys waste, who stands and pulls her along. its not a pretty site. im pretty sure half of it is a scam. that she can walk n that is a ploy to get money. i know that sounds terrible, but thats the reality of most situations. im pretty sure ive seen them in reversed postions to be honest. but i cud b wrong.
ive made sure that everytime they are there i bring them food now. i try to avoid giving them money cos i hate to think where it ends up or if it even ends up in their hands. i figure they've gotta b hungry n so far they havent rejected any of the food ive given them.
it just doesnt seem like enough though. like something MORE needs to b done for these kids. we need to feed them, cloth them, give them a second chance of life. surely there is a way. i mean thats wot the orphanage is there for! abandoned kids!!!! but maybe they r too old to go to an orphanage. maybe they arent abandoned? maybe someone owns them and sends them out to beg? then its COMPLETELY out of our hands.
but maybe its not out of our hands!!! maybe they sleep in a cold deserted building. i just want to take em home and scrub them clean. get them a home. organise some plastic surgery for the girl so her face is beautifully restored, altho that wud have to wait a few yrs til she was fully developed. all of this costs money, but surely ppl are out there that are willing to support such an effort? dont these kids deserve a second chance at life?
i mean buying them some food once a week is not enuff. not now, not never. seeing them just breaks my heart. but wot can i do!!!????
i think ill speak to my mum and dad and some of the other foreigners about them. keeping quiet never did any good. i really hope that we can help them.
*sigh*

1 Comments:

At 4:00 PM, Blogger ruthjanine said...

Once again i can relate. It used to get on my heart so much i would go out with my roommate at about 11pm at night, buy a heap of food and take it to the kids that were put there to beg for their families. Once time after i gave some kids food their whole family emurged from no where! We went and got more food, but in the end.... what is enough? There is so little we can do for them, but who knows what the love of giving them that food will do to lift their spirits!

 

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