Few Beggars in Bogo
Someone, probably the Mayor, seems to have put a stop to the begging in Bogo City. While I still see it, I don’t see it nearly as much as I use too. Especially down at the BBQ. Those kids that were waiting for people to 
finish eating and then taking the scraps of food they left behind are still with me.
That was real need. That wasn’t parents sending their kids out to make money for them. I hope some of the need behind the begging has been resolved. That of course is a much harder issue.
To me, its not a matter of it reflecting on Bogo City, its just that I live here so that’s where I see it. Bogo City is a very nice place to live. After all, it has won the greenest and cleanest city in the Philippines for three or four years in a row. I think three years.
The story was about the poverty in the Philippines. There’s far more poverty in both the north and the south of the Philippines. Manila is a contrast, both rich and extremely poor. The south has armed conflict, just this week there was a military battle between MORO Islamic Rebels and the Philippine National Army. There is much need in the Philippines. If you’re in a position to help, I hope you will consider to do so.
There’s still a few kids hanging around Jollibee’s and you will find a few on the streets asking for money. Down at the BBQ by The Bay, I’ve not seen this at all in several months. When I’m eating I really dislike it.
I have sometimes given the kids or even an adult a small amount and they don’t hound me like I had been warned they might. I got a bad feeling from it when the first time I gave someone what I had in my pocket and they gave me a look of disgust and the child took the money to an adult. They didn’t know I was still watching. Its easy to become jaded but try to remember the kids grabbing the scraps of food left on a strangers plate.
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Last year, my family and I gave these kids some food before we had time to finish our meals. Big mistake! they won’t leave us alone for the rest of our meal. Even when we told them to leave they just stayed as if they were part of our party. It needed the staff to tell them to get going before they reluctantly left. Never again would I be giving anything at the BBQ by the bay. I did notice the number of child beggars in Bogo. I thought it was far too numerous for the size of Bogo?
The number changes Christine.
I was here for months before I saw any. Then I saw many for a while.
The major put a stop to most of it. Well, I say the major, when it goes away for a while, I suspect the town officials are behind it.
There were quite a few at Gaisano for a while but they are gone. Even the guy in a wheel chair had moved down to the bread store a bit down the street.
I’ve been out so little, I don’t really know what is going on out there right now.
My impression was there were far too many beggars for a city/town the size of Bogo. Even when I went to the St Nino Shrine in Cebu City, I did not encounter any. Or even when I was wandering (shopping really
in Colon St, I was not bothered by any beggar children. But buying bread at bakeries in Bogo, beggar kids were everywhere.
There are kids begging here that is true. I had one approach me yesterday as I was coming out of Lhuillier. No big deal to me.
If you didn’t see any in Cebu City, especially on Colon that is highly unusual.