have you tried talking to a street children or beggar?

In my city, there are A LOT OF beggars or street childrens and each time you come acorss them they will just ask you for money directly. some are disabled, some performing special, singing, some will have a pepar explaining how much difficult situation he is in or whatever.... no mater which case, i would not give them anything, not even say talk to them. for some of them, if i refuse their request, they even hold your sleeves...i am quite afraid of them, i just escape or ignore....

I never talk to them, unless they talk to me, then I talk to them just as I would anyone else. lol There just people but they can look unapproachable or cranky. They are sometimes struggling with their things, or have been out in the cold all day begging. I'd be nervous to approach them though, as they may be cranky/ just not in the mood for a conversation with me. Most likely I guess they'd be nice though.

I work for the city at one of the community centers. We have a lady that comes in all the time with her push cart and is always begging from people. She's harmless enough, but no one seemed to know anything about her other than her name. She shows up at all the centers around town, so she's fairly mobile. I decided to talk to her one day and see if she lived close or had a place to stay. I really didn't get an answer from her other than the fact that she lived in an apartment, but the people there weren't nice to her and she wanted to move. Now every time I see her, she waves or says 'hi'. I think she feels like we're kind of buddies now that I took the time to talk to her.

Although, there have a lots of beggars and street childrens around our city, i always try to avoide them by giving a coin or something. Specially i do not like to talk closely with them because they have different kinds of attitude. But i really helpful for helpless people. I always try to help people. whatever, i have a experience about a street children who was going to die by an accident. Usually many street children run through the road when they beg. So a children was begging and wanted to crossed the road but he did not see the bus. And this time i helped him!

I've seen a lot of street children and beggars, and i usually don't talk to them because most of them look like they will rob you instead. Especially in NYC...eesh

Yes, I experienced this. And what I can say is that sometimes these people know much more than us. Their experience in life is different than our . . . We skip lots of things that they meet everyday. What you did is great! I wish everybody's like you. You need medal. We all can help somebody, but most of the people don't care.

I have experience not only with street ppl and being in contact with them but also by being one myself way back when...And I can honestly say from personal experience that it would be a beautiful thing if more ppl took the time to get facts..EVERYONE has a story to tell...and EVERYONE deserves to be heard...Not ALL street ppl are junkies or lazy like the masses seem to think in FACT that is RARELY the actual case...Sadly, the masses would much rather assume then find out the truth and try to help in any way, shape or form and that can kill..Literally.

Hi jakie.. =) Yes, I have tried talking to a street child on the park. I was alone during that time when Joey Boy (the poor kid) came near to me and asked for a penny.. I urged him to sit beside me first because I conditioned him that we should have few conversations first before I give him his money.. I told him he doesn't seem like a poor kid at all, just to break the ice between us. When our conversation expanded, he cried to me and asked me to take him with me because he's being a slave to the bullies. He said he was looking for his mom and dad and I should help him find his parents. Seconds later, I noticed I am already being surrounded by the "bullies". Fear dominated my emotions over compassion so immediately I walked away from the scene. As I walked away I can hear Joey Boy's cries asking me to take him with me.. =,( I admit, I haven't done my part to really help him because I was so overwhelmed with fear, but my prayers are always with him. This experience only taught me a lesson that poor people don't necessarily need money for existence. More than anything, they need our love and understanding.. to do that, we should put ourselves in their shoes. we should associate ourselves with them.. just like what Jesus did. That was really an eye-opening experience. Sometimes I blame the government for not taking care of them since they got more power over the country. Take care and God bless.

I don't have much experience with beggars except from when I was in Berlin where there were a lot of Romanian beggars or at least Eastern Europeans, they didn't get money from me but I did try to interview them, to no avail as their English and my German wasn't sufficient. My goal was to ask how it's possible that their mothers had good looking prams with them but yet they did not seem to be able to go to school and why their mothers did not have a job. Here in Amsterdam however you'll only find the occasional beggar in the center of the city as that's the busiest spot in the whole city. They'll only ask for a dollar but not as professional as the beggars in Germany did. In Berlin they had a paper written in English telling how bad the circumstances they live in are, while here they'd just ask for a buck or they fetch themselves some free magazines and ask you for a buck for getting hold of those magazines.

Our country is among the nations with a lot of beggars on the street. I am not proud abou this but neither will i be ashamed about this situation we have. My heart always cry out whenever I saw children begging for food or money. But usually, to ease the pain I feel about them, I always give whatever I have on me. I usually give out food or clothes rather than money especially to these kids or old beggars. I want to help them ease their hunger. Right now, I am hoping that our government will do something about this as these people are not fortunate enough to work and earn a living and they really need our helping hands.

beeing kind for begers is a very good thing, but we can't give money to all begers i think helping them to improve their life is beter then giving money

Yes and i feel so bad for them sometimes but there are other times when you know people are beggars mainly because they're to lazy to go and get a job and that certainly makes me mad ! what makes me even madder are street children who dropped out of school just because they thought they were to dumb to make it through but what they don't realize is that there is always a plan b c d e f anyone and everyone must have an education one way or another. i do get mad at them but at the same time i do feel sorry and do everything i can to stop the homeless growth.

heyy jackie.. that is a very good question put here.. well..!! i asked a beggar once.. he ws sayin that its his family who make him do this all.. he wasnt interested in all this stuff..but if he didnt do thin then he'll get beaten by his father.. n then i complained against him(his father) to the cops... hope he'll b fine now...

yes it just happend wid me recently that i was out wid my friends in break time of my work enjoyimg a "vada paav" which happens to be a very popular fast food here in Mumbai i saw a begger an old lady staring at us with hungry eyes , , feeling pity we asked her if she was hungry she said she was a lot actually so we bought her one and she took it readily , she did seemed as if she was really hungry and then we went away, ,next day when we came down in our break time from work we saw the same old lady but this time she was with one old man (supposedly her husband ) and two young children! she came up to us as soon as she saw us coming and asked us for food! actually we did felt bad for her ,both the young lads were too skinny and were beggin to us to buy them some food but we aint that rich that we can give all of them food! we couldnt turn them away , we did help them but this incident always makes me think before giving alms to any begger !

I dont see beggers often... just when i have to go into bad/ really busy areas. When i see them i'm nice and most of the time i do give them money or food. I just dont have the heart to say no to them!

Sometimes cause some of them turn out to be lawyers, teachers, and such cause they give good legal advice and I ask them why do you choose to live on the street and they will change the subject or walk away where i'm from Columbia S.C. we don't children on the street from what i've seen so far.

Whenever I am in a city environment for dinner I will ask for a to-go box and give all of the food that I don't eat to someone on the street. These people are SO appreciative of such a small favor, it makes me realize how good I have it. It's a simple thing to do and it can completely make someones day. : )

Many a times. Talking to street children is a good experience for me. I think it is our own society responsible for the birth of such creatures. Why don't we take care of these street children instead of pet dogs and other unimportant hobbies as well the crazy activities. Street children are always in my concideration when i used to celebrate festivals or have to distribute clothes and money for charity and humanitatrian purpose. Each city in the world has this tag some have very much and some have very little. I must have pity for them whereever they came from.