I was going somewhere when I saw a boy about seven-year-old selling flowers and insisting a girl to buy some. The girl gave him money but did not take the flowers. He continuously asked her to take it but she didnt and entered a shop.
This act of a girl compels me to think what we are doing. We must not give money to child beggars so that they could try finding some work and are not involved in begging. But when they work, what do we do? We only give them money and dont appreciate the work they are doing. This is encouraging their begging habits as they stop doing any kind of work just because they are getting easy money. That means we are the ones making them beggars, though unintentionally.
AYSHA TAHIR
Karachi