Send baggars to do the works on the farms.

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Send them ass to jail or hang them ,they make country look bad

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 it is like Beijing olympic, all the baggars have sent to somewhere and the gov fed them untill the event was over. but as for Lao government, what are they doing with those poor baggars, if send to Jail is not enought space!! some girl might get prenant agian, but this time would be another story.. kidding

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Send them ass to jail or hang them ,they make country look bad

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You have a heart of stone and I would hate to see you in this situation.

 

give them welfare and food stamp and training them job after that send them to work
if they can't take them self don't let them make baby.how is that !

I think, they just want to clean up the city during the SEA games.  So Vientian will be a nice enviroment as it could be.

Why Lao gov. don't issue a regulation or law about beg and tip providing in public place, as some other countries who provides or receives a beg or tip it means against the law or regulation, except the monks. May this will healp to solve as sustainability on this.

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laolamleuak wrote:

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Why Lao gov. don't issue a regulation or law about beg and tip providing in public place, as some other countries who provides or receives a beg or tip it means against the law or regulation, except the monks. May this will healp to solve as sustainability on this.

-- Edited by laolamleuak on Sunday 29th of November 2009 05:27:09 AM

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I agree with your comments.

 

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do you think the gov is concerned about the begger right now, there are many new law must be completed in your Law, so this not gona work right now

Rounding up beggars from the street as they are considered as eyesore is very common in South East Asian countries whenever a special event with  international participation is coming up. I think the real purpose really is to hide the truth and show a false image to the visitors that the country is doing well, etc. Very typical with many asian governments.

However, Laos should start finding a long term solution to the problem of poverty since this is the root cause of the problem of seeing people beg and the number is increasing as the years pass by.

This issue is one of the true indicators of the country's GDP, GNP, per capita income, whatever you call it. 

I dont think jail is the place they deserve to be in. Is it a crime to be poor?

Putting them in places where they can get trained and learn some basic skill would yield better long term results. Why not spend some of those borrowed money to put up a livelihood training program for street people. I believe many NGOs and volunteers would be willing to spend some of their time to volunteer in the center to help these people get trained on something. You will be surprised how good some of them can be. Many of them probably just need a good break... a simple yet good opportunity.

I used to deal with street children and adults. After few months of mentoring, exposure and training, some of them turn out better "peer educators"/ "street educators", some theater artists, some were luck to receive scholarship grants and pursued their studies to lawyers, doctors, engineers, computer scientists. A few even became local politicians and small scale business enterpreneurs.

Living in the street does not mean they are dumb. These people deserves the respect like all of use do. The government need to help them discover their potentials and offer them better opportunites. It does not need to cost that much. Simple facility and focused programs will do a lot.

I hope those who were already picked up by the authorities are treated humanely.


Lhc

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laolamleuak wrote:

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Why Lao gov. don't issue a regulation or law about beg and tip providing in public place, as some other countries who provides or receives a beg or tip it means against the law or regulation, except the monks. May this will healp to solve as sustainability on this.

-- Edited by laolamleuak on Sunday 29th of November 2009 05:27:09 AM

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I agree with your comments. 

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i agree w/u too, feel bad for them...

 

Lhc you are mistaken.

It has nothing to do with GDP or poverty and everything to do with tourism.

Ten or fifteen years ago there were almost no beggars in Vientiane. When there were beggars they were in the market, and they were disabled or they would be the homelsess walking through the neighborhood asking for a handout until finally someone would allow them to live under some bamboo and work for food. Now the GDP is much higher and average laborer wages in Vientiane are very high, almost $5 per day. Beggars borrow or rent babies to carry because begging pays very well.

Today the beggars are drug addicts of lazy people come to get big money from tourists. Or better yet tell their stories to NGO workers who will feed and house you if you have a good story. Lock up the NGOers and fine every tourist who gives money to the beggar and the problem would be solved but quick. Let the beggars farm rice.

So the same with Australia when the Olympic Games were organised in Sydney, the New South Wales government also removed all the homeless people who slept in the streets in Sydney and relocated them somewhere else, to make Sydney looked clean and nice to international visitors during the games.