Should i give money to those kids selling bracelets? How cute, trying to help their family.
Think again.
Your money end up going to their mom who in most cases are observing her children from the corner or other side of the street. She is keeping her children away from a education to likely become a homeless person with all what that include later on when she cannot get a job nor pay her family for staying at the home.
Does the mother exploiting and stealing the young years from their children deserve your money? If you think so. Go ahead. But look into the childrens dead eyes and think about it one more time.
As long as they come home with money the parents will think its worth to keep them out on the streets with strangers day as night. Maby not all with good intentions.
There are many people who actually do need your money in Cambodia.
I only give money to people who had an accident. Some can be missing 3½ of their arms and legs. They cannot get a job. They are left on their own. Noone will help them. THEY need your money. Just imagine the situation they are left in.
Two arms, two legs, no money.
I spent allot of time out on the streets in Phnom penh and this is a sort of common story among the girls living on the street.
ReplyDeleteThey end up geting pregnant with some guy who never wanted to stay with them as they are uneducated and have poor family (they care alot about this in cambodia). When the baby is a fact the guy leaves and the situation for the girl is even worse.
I do talk much with those people as i dont care that they are homeless with problems. We can still have a good talk. I buy some water/food for her.
When i see a naive tourist living in a dreamworld giving money to those i only think one thing...."What a fucking idiot".