At the same time, the government and society are also facing the same problem. Compulsory assistance was cancelled, but not many beggars accepted voluntarily. Faced with this situation, many readers express their views; Recently, the reporter also interviewed several street beggars randomly, and they told their own experiences.
How do ordinary people face street beggars?
White-collar lin li is 26 years old this year.
I won't give money to beggars, because there are so many beggars now that it's difficult to tell the true from the false. Besides, there are many little beggars now. I feel sorry for these children, but the newspaper reports that they are all manipulated by "black hands" and children are just tools to make money. Later, I didn't trust them either. Sometimes when I see poor children, I'd rather take them directly to buy something to eat. I think this way may be more effective than giving them money.
Mr. Li is unwilling to disclose personal information.
Most of these people who want money now are professional beggars. They often make up many sad stories to deceive people. The media often report these things, but they don't believe them when they read too much, and even if they have change, they won't give it to them. If they are really miserable, they can go to the rescue station.
Ms. Huang, the grocer
Many beggars come to my grocery store to beg. If they are old people, disabled people or children, I usually give them money or give them something to eat, such as biscuits, bread or fruit, which is not much. There are some in the shop anyway. But for those young people, I won't give them. They can support themselves by working. Why do they beg for a living?
He Jie, manager of human resources department of international company, director of volunteer action network of Caring Home Community.
I can't tell a Muslim beggar from a fake beggar. I judge whether I should give money according to whether I have a job. For example, I usually give some money to those who play the piano, sing and play the flute in the street.
How can the state and society provide assistance?
It is difficult for social organizations to intervene and help.
He Jie
I think it is difficult for social organizations to intervene to help these vagrants and beggars who have no life. The Oriental Morning Post once reported that foreign couples take in beggars and help them learn to find jobs. I find it difficult to promote this kind of personal behavior. Including the identification of beggars in advance, as well as follow-up training, but also to help beggars establish self-esteem and self-reliance, there are difficulties. These are all brand-new challenges faced by Shanghai NGOs. If we want to promote the participation of community forces, the government needs to provide more institutional and resource support.
Narrowing the gap between urban and rural areas can fundamentally solve the problem.
Deng Weizheng, director of the Department of Sociology, Shanghai University
The increase of beggars is essentially caused by the dual economic difference between urban and rural areas in China, so fake beggars are also real beggars. If you can live well in your hometown, who wants to leave your hometown? At this point, what the government should do is to coordinate the differences between urban and rural areas in economic and social development and fundamentally solve the problem.
Voluntary assistance to the government also has its advantages.
Xia, professor of Shanghai University Law School, member of CPPCC.
The new relief management method establishes the principle of voluntary relief and respects the personal freedom of beggars, which is progress. In terms of specific operation, I think the government still has room. Voluntary can be persuaded, and relevant staff can persuade vagrants and beggars to accept assistance when they are in direct contact. At the same time, will can also be influenced. Singapore organized a similar "pigeon feeding operation", which not only provided subsidies for the homeless, but also increased the urban landscape. This "win-win" activity can be organized by non-governmental organizations.
There is nothing wrong with setting up a no-begging area.
Gu Donghui, Ph.D. in Social Welfare and Deputy Director of Sociology Department, Fudan University.
I once gave a beggar more than 200 yuan in Shenzhen. At that time, I only left the money for going back by car and gave him the rest. Citizens have the right to move freely and even beg, and it is also civil freedom to give money or not.
The city gives beggars some freedom, but it is understandable to set up a no-begging area on the main road for reasons such as public safety. Beggars should also respect local rules.
The effect of centralized notification is good.
A staff member of the civil affairs department
The civil affairs department has formed a rescue management network with the city rescue management station as the center and covering the whole city. It is suggested that citizens meet vagrants and beggars on the road and persuade them to enter the nearby rescue station for assistance. Each rescue management station has formulated a rescue notice and a rescue guide, and opened a 24-hour help hotline. On the eve of the National Day, the city's public security, urban management, civil affairs and other departments dispatched 6,065 staff and volunteers and 263 vehicles to carry out centralized assistance activities to inform, guide and escort vagrants and beggars in major commercial streets, tourist attractions and transportation hubs in the city. * * * Inform 1497 people and help 6 10 people.
Self-report of street beggars
By begging Gai Lou.
Time: 16 around 9 am
Venue: South Square of Shanghai Railway Station
Interviewee: Beggar Liu.
Native place: Liling, Hunan
Age: about 60 years old
Begging time in Shanghai: about two years.
In the square in front of the ticket office of Shanghai Railway Station, the old beggar staggered back and forth with a wooden stick in his right hand and an enamel water cup in his left hand, shaking the water cup in front of pedestrians from time to time, making the coins in the water cup rattle. After the reporter gave him a coin of 1 yuan, the old man was interviewed by the reporter. )
I came out to beg for money when I was 35. I have to spend money in Xi, Guangzhou, Beijing and other cities. It is not easy to do business (begging) now. A few years ago, you could get more than 100 a day. Now I can get around 60 yuan at most, and I can only get 30-50 yuan a day.
I have a small building with two floors and eight rooms in my hometown, and both my sons are married. Over the years, Gai Lou and his wife's money have been recovered by me. I will go home for the Spring Festival in half a month at most. I miss my grandson.
Begging is better than collecting garbage.
Time: 16 am 10: 30 or so.
Venue: Xujiahui Pacific Digital Plaza area
Interviewee: Wang Ping, a beggar.
Native place: Zhumadian, Henan Province
Age: about 45 years old
Begging time in Shanghai: about three months.
According to the reporter's statistics, there are at least five vagrants in Xujiahui Pacific Digital Plaza, Bainaohui Plaza and surrounding underground passages. In the underground passage next to Pacific Digital Plaza, the reporter met Wang Ping. )
When I first came to Shanghai in September, I mainly collected waste products in some streets, communities and comprehensive markets. However, it is not easy to pick up junk in Shanghai. Security guards often come to kick me out and won't let me answer. Sometimes you can't even earn living expenses at the end of the day. Later, under the guidance of fellow villagers, I went to Xujiahui to ask for money.
Shanghai people are still relatively good. Ordinary people will not be fired as long as they don't go into shopping malls and beg at intersections or squares. At most, some people will look down on them.
You can't sleep until you finish the task.
Time: 16 at about a.m. 12: 40.
Venue: Zhongshan Park Subway Station
Interviewee: Li Shuai, a beggar.
Native place: Yunxi, Hubei Province
Age: 15 years old.
Begging time in Shanghai: 1 year or more
In a corner of the underground passage of Zhongshan Park subway station, a little boy with deformed hands and feet is half lying in the corner. Whenever someone passes by him, he always shouts "Uncle and Aunt, have pity on me ...")
I am 15 years old and came to Shanghai with my fellow villagers a year ago.
There are eight of us, and we have to pay 10 yuan to our boss (hometown) every night before we can go to bed. Only by asking for more money every day, 10 yuan or more, can we have money to buy food and save money.