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Have you seen the creation with the grimy body, mucky nose, sticky hairs wearing stained and torn clothes with cracked sandals in feet? Yes, they are street children. We saw them in the streets, on roads, in parking areas, and on bus stops. Some of them are professional beggars who trained by Mafia groups and some of them are needy. But the problem of our society is that we don’t identify them either they beg to fulfill their own needs or beg for others need, we treat them equally and disprove them by forgetting one thing in both cases they are begging. And this is the point to understood.
A simple scenario of society’s behavior is pictured here; when we saw that creation coming toward us we try to get rid of them. We never want them to come close to us and touch our clothes with their muddy hands. We think their bad smell may be a health hazard for us. When they just try to touch us for a little aid for their hunger we just shock away them with anger. And this behavior really hurts.
ESTIMATION: There is an estimation of street children which is determined using different websites studies. According to this estimation, there are 250,000 street children in Kenya, 1 million or more than in each city (New Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai), 170,000 in Indonesia, more than 60,000 in Iran, 1.2 to 1.5 Million in Pakistan, 1.5 Million in the Philippines, 1 Million in Russia, 1.2 Million in US.88,000 in Turkey. Many associations and NGOs are working for these children. UNICEF is working across 190 countries to defend these children.
The reason of this article isn’t to identify these children either they or professional or needy or demanding to any NGO and association to provide any aid for them. They are working using their potential and providing them with accessories. These lines are just about a little thing that this creation is “grimy outside and polished inside”. Try once to check them, they have a polished and clean heart which is enforced to beg for their living.
We always see the dirty and dusty clothes of these children but have we ever tried to see their cleaned heart? Before reproving them, had we tried to imagine the pain of begging? Before shouting at them, had we think about their hunger? just think you will found many questions like this. But we are indulged with our own lifestyles, we never think about these things. Something that forced me to think about these children is connected with a real-life incident.
It was a summer’s midday. I was standing at the bus stop and waiting for the bus. I saw a little girl with the grimy body, sticky hairs, wearing stained clothes and cracked pair of shoes. People were standing under shadow and umbrellas but that girl with cracked shoes and without having an umbrella and sunglasses, going toward every single person and to beg for some money to eat food. The bus was late so I stare at her continuously. People were reacting differently, some was just shouting at her, some was reproving her and some were giving her coins just because they didn’t want her presence there.
I had not seen any single person who helped her with a smile and a hand of lovingness. When she came to me and begged for money, I said to her that I am also hungry and have no money to eat food please give me some money so I can buy food for me. And then that little creature’s reaction wet my eyes with tears. She just smiled, holding my hand and secretly put her whole money which she begged in that midday, and ran away from there. I was surprised to saw her reaction. I tried to stop her but she didn’t stop, I ran after her, stopped her and returned her money.
But she refused to take it when I forced her to take her money back by saying that I was just kidding, she took and ran away with a smile on her face. She forced me to think about that creation. Who are they? Are they humans? If yes, then why our behavior is rude to them? I don’t know either she was professional or needy but she helped me on my request because she was aware of the pain of begging. She just smiled to overcome my guilt to beg because she knows its guilt. She gave me money to have food because she was aware of the feelings of hunger. She put money in my hand secretly because she knows the feelings of disobeying. She cares for all these aspects because she had faced them every day.
So if that little grimy creation takes care of my feelings without having any relation with me. Maybe just she felt a relation with me a relation of humanity! then why we mannered people don’t feel this relation. I think if we are blessed then we should treat them well. Beside of linking them to any mafia group or etc. We should consider that pain, that feeling behind to beg.
It isn’t easy to beg in hot summer or bear hunger for so many days. It isn’t easy to get insulted again and again. We just remember that they are innocent children rather than they are grimy but having a heart inside them which is full of feelings. With a little change in our attitude or behavior toward that street children, we can spread happiness among them because they also deserve a happy life.
