Do you encourage beggers

Hi neeli maravi.... hope you are doing great by mylotting... i accept your point as such... i wont give money to those beggars who are physically fit to do some work and earn money... but when it comes to some kind of handicapt then there should be some consideration right???? so i will give money to blind, and other physically challenged people alone....

Dear friend,
I would never encourage begging, that too if possible to those not physically fit too as there are charity institutions and welfare organizations who could take care of them. May be just inform them, here they come and take these kinds of people. In our place begging is banned in most of public places.

Hi friend,

Well no i don't encourage beggars. But if i see someone who is physically handicapped then i do help them by giving food not money. It so happened that me and my friends were standing at the bus stop and then there was a little child crying and asking for money my friend gave him few coins. What we saw next was horrible. He went to a cigarette shop and starting smoking.

From that day onwards we decided we are not going to give money only food that to only if he is handicapped.

Hi neelima,

Today morning I got angry on one of the girl she came for begging in bus. She hardly 16 years old and her left hand covered with some medicine and made it as a burned one. A lady sat near to me in bus, asked me that what happened to her hand, I told her that she just applied some medicine to make us fool and getting money. I have been watching her everyday. Usually she came with a little girl and her hand is making it as burned one and today she was alone and she did it herself. I didn’t give money to her. I used to give money to beggars but for the right persons only (means if somebody physically handicapped then I may offer some help). I don’t like to help the cheating persons. If she asks money without doing this thing I may think to give something.

I don't encourage beggars, but I used to encourage them. I thought that helping beggars is a criteria to enter heaven. God will keep the record of the number of times we helped others. Later, I found that I am making a person lazy by giving him money free of cost even though it is a small amount. Then, I found out that there are rackets where people employ beggars and make money. Now, I give money to a beggar only if I find that he really needs money.

I live in Australia and we don’t see beggars on the streets although we do have homeless people who gather outside certain hostels in the city hoping for a bed for the night; a lot are accommodated but not all unfortunately.

I have been to India and I have seen a lot of children begging and it was heartbreaking for me. The person who was escorting us was from India and advised us not to give anything to them and not to encourage them. We did as he suggested but I felt I wanted to help them; there were so many of them though and it would have only been possible for me to give to one or two which I did before I left because I figured at least I lent a hand to one and that is better than doing nothing.

Hello...Neelu

How are you?
Even i dont encourage beggers. I dont get angry if i see the people acting like handicapped.
But when i see using small kids for their begging makes me angry.

BHA

I never encourage begging and in our city it is totally banned by our government.Government is providing proper shelter and food for such people,still many people are begging.I help such people,by observing or studying the condition of the beggars.If she or he is physically unfit,then there is nothing wrong in helping them.Encourage begging is not a right thing.It is better to help them by giving food and dresses.Most of the beggars misuse the money for drinking smoking and other anti social activities.

I don't encourage beggars. If you will give them some money, they will become use to it and depend on it. I'd rather give them food than money especially the children because they still don't have the capacity to work.

Hi! Once we give any amount to beggars it encourages them to do it daily. They won't think of any thing that could alleviate they situation to a better one. They will always have in their mind the easy way to have some money, begging. Helping is not bad as long as what we are doing to help would give people the sense of responsibility. Being responsible for their lives beggars wont just depend on others help. That dependence could be erased if people will keep in mind that once we give them money they will not work and just beg.