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Sister Omega
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 04 Dec 2006 : 16:24:34
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what we need i believe is a serious change in individual attitudes.
Njucks, true I couldn't agree with you more again the media if used properly could go along way to challenge Gambian's misconception about Babylon. By showing them how Gambians have tolive when they reach here. The fallacy of Babylon's streets being paved with gold needs to readdressed.
As for fulfilling jobs this is a dilemma globally. Not everyone has the priviledge to accomplish this aim. For most people they have to work to make ends meet.
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Momodou
Denmark
11646 Posts |
Posted - 05 Dec 2006 : 00:25:16
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Street Beggars Expected In Court
Bubacarr K Sowe
Lamin Jatta, Spokesman for the Immigration Department has confirmed that 28 street beggars who are alleged to be illegal immigrants are expected in court soon.
In an interview with Foroyaa on Monday, Mr Jatta said that a mass operation that targeted street beggars on 20th and 21st of November resulted in the arrest of the said 28 people.
We arrested 28 non-Gambians and arrangements are on the way to take them to court.
All of them are illegal immigrants, Jatta said.
He added that all of them are released on bail.
Jatta, however, stressed that they are not against begging, but beggars can go to Mosques and churches and avoid the streets. He said that most often bandits ‘hide behind beggars to steal or the beggars themselves fall victims of traffic accidents, which he said cause havoc.
Source: Foroyaa Newspaper Burning Issue
Issue No.106/2006, 29-30 November, 2006 |
A clear conscience fears no accusation - proverb from Sierra Leone |
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Momodou
Denmark
11646 Posts |
Posted - 05 Dec 2006 : 00:55:32
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Beggars Quit The Streets As 21 Get Convicted
By Yaya Dampha
Magistrate BY Camara of the Banjul Magistrate Court has convicted 21 beggars for causing nuisance in the streets. The beggars pleaded guilty to the charge that was preferred against them. In his ruling, Magistrate By Camara said the beggars are first offenders. He ordered them to keep the peace for the next six months. The beggars were arrested by the Police last week. They were later arraigned in court for causing nuisance in the streets of Banjul and Serrekunda.
When this reporter visited the streets in Banjul, Serrekunda, Latrikunda and Brikama, he discovered that there was no beggar in the streets. In Serrekunda he was shown the home of a blind man who earns his living through begging at the Westfield junction, the old man said their livelihood is at stake because they have been ordered to leave the streets. He said one thing that the authorities should understand is that they do not like begging; that they are suffering from disabilities. In Banjul a handicap who crawls in the streets, said his livehood depends on begging. He said “We are not criminals it is because of our physical conditions that’s why we are begging.”
Source: Foroyaa Newspaper Burning Issue
Issue No. 107/2006, 1-3 December, 2006 |
A clear conscience fears no accusation - proverb from Sierra Leone |
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Momodou
Denmark
11646 Posts |
Posted - 05 Dec 2006 : 01:19:26
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“Crackdown On Beggars Is Unfortunate”
Bubacarr K. Sowe
Muhamed Korah, Chairman of the Gambia Federation of the Disabled (GFD) has described the recent crackdown on beggars as unfortunate.
Speaking to Foroyaa on Saturday, Mr. Korah said that the authorities should have collaborated with their federation in order to work on appropriate solution. “It is just unfortunate, because we do not know how it came about,” he said.
Korah also indicated that The Gambia Organisation for the Visually Impaired (GOVI) has written to the Department of State for the Interior appealing on behalf of the blind people.
He also said that some of the disabled organisations are on the verge of creating programmes that may change the lives of the disabled towards a dignified life. He added that GOVI has started a community base rehabilitation programme for the blind and an skill centre has been established by the Gambia Association of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (GADHOH).
It could be recalled that 21 beggars were recently convicted for causing public nuisance after a mass operation that targeted beggars at Westfield and along the Kairaba Avenue was carried on by the police.
Foroyaa Newspaper Burning Issue
Issue No. 108/2006, 4-5 December, 2006 |
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kiwi
Sweden
661 Posts |
Posted - 05 Dec 2006 : 14:50:21
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Before my last visit to the Gambia I prepared myself to how to cope with beggars telling myself to give to the disabled and not to give to the healthy looking men telling stories and asking for money.
My first evening when I left my hotel and walked away to meet a friend, I was taken by surprise by a young boy about ten with only one leg jumping towards me with a crutch. He didn´t say anything, just hold out his hand. Contrary to my decision I shook my head and walked away.
A minute later I heard some peculiar noise behind me. A little boy ran a wheelchair in a terrible speed! He pulled over beside me. The little boy , maybe 6-7 years old, didn´t say anything, he just looked at me. I saw both his legs from knees to down were thin and athrophied. Kneeling down I asked him ”What happened to you”. ”An accident” he said in a whispering voice. ”What kind of accident?” I asked. ”A car accident”, he whispered back.
Wishing him well I gave the little boy a small amount of money. Then the first boy was there standing behind me! He didn´t need to say anything, the look in his eyes told me everything: How could you give him money and not me? Quite ashaimed I gave him some money too. I never saw them again.
In my memories I still ”see” the young boy with a crutch and the smaller boy with the wheelchair.
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serenata
Germany
1400 Posts |
Posted - 05 Dec 2006 : 16:11:30
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kiwi, this is a moving story.
I also give to disabled or old people; they need help.
In India I met a swami who always gave to the needy in a respectful way, without arrogance or condescendence. Among others because he was grateful to them: After his belief these poor people gave him the chance to improve his karma. I am not a Hindu, but I remember this teaching. |
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jambo
3300 Posts |
Posted - 06 Dec 2006 : 11:51:09
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for me the turning point against giving to the beggers in Banjul, who are organised and illegal, was visiting Brikama, and seeing a young woman about 25 years old who had a form of leporsy sitting under a tree asking for money.
she got some coins from me. I will give to the blind and in the wheelchair, but a mother with twins asking for me because she has children no i will not.
There use to be a lot of women with children in the senegambia area who begged from the tourists, but that has been stopped along with the street children selling peanuts. I always felt that there was some kind of organised person behind them.
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Alhassan
Sweden
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Posted - 07 Dec 2006 : 12:04:26
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Originally posted by jambo
for me the turning point against giving to the beggers in Banjul, who are organised and illegal, was visiting Brikama, and seeing a young woman about 25 years old who had a form of leporsy sitting under a tree asking for money.
she got some coins from me. I will give to the blind and in the wheelchair, but a mother with twins asking for me because she has children no i will not.
There use to be a lot of women with children in the senegambia area who begged from the tourists, but that has been stopped along with the street children selling peanuts. I always felt that there was some kind of organised person behind them.
Jambo,
What has happened with the school for the blind in YBK? I remembered visiting and working together with the school attendance. As a boys scout at Armitage , I was once among those sent to the school to help. There was a Mr. Signateh the hedmaster. He even taught me in the primary school but he too had difficulties in seeing. There was an exchange of studies to Sweden in Växjö from Gambia, with demaged sights. I remembered one Gomez a twin from Serekunda who was in Växjö. We meet at the migrant institute in växjö. This was in the mid 80s. Is the school not operating? |
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kondorong
Gambia
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Posted - 07 Dec 2006 : 17:39:45
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Originally posted by Alhassan
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Originally posted by jambo
for me the turning point against giving to the beggers in Banjul, who are organised and illegal, was visiting Brikama, and seeing a young woman about 25 years old who had a form of leporsy sitting under a tree asking for money.
she got some coins from me. I will give to the blind and in the wheelchair, but a mother with twins asking for me because she has children no i will not.
There use to be a lot of women with children in the senegambia area who begged from the tourists, but that has been stopped along with the street children selling peanuts. I always felt that there was some kind of organised person behind them.
Jambo,
What has happened with the school for the blind in YBK? I remembered visiting and working together with the school attendance. As a boys scout at Armitage , I was once among those sent to the school to help. There was a Mr. Signateh the hedmaster. He even taught me in the primary school but he too had difficulties in seeing. There was an exchange of studies to Sweden in Växjö from Gambia, with demaged sights. I remembered one Gomez a twin from Serekunda who was in Växjö. We meet at the migrant institute in växjö. This was in the mid 80s. Is the school not operating?
There is no such school anymore. You might be lucky to find some bricks of the school lying about. I think there was also a TB/Leprosy camp somewhere in the area which is also in ruins. |
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