Street Begging

Tackle issue of street begging
 The number of beggars on the streets of Accra keeps increasing daily.
Many people are involved in this activity for various reasons, but the most heart-breaking part involves mothers  and their children sitting at street corners in sweltering conditions hoping passers-by will have pity on them and drop some money in their cups.
Another disturbing part of  the practice is the number of able-bodied beggars in the streets. Among this group are the professional beggars who believe that they will earn more money from begging than they would have done in a regular job. They have made begging an art with well-made stories, some written on placards, which make it difficult  for God-fearing people to resist making a donation.
 Some of these able-bodied persons can be seen leading the visually impaired,  pushing the physically challenged  in wheelchairs or even using children to beg. There are few in this group also who are forced  to beg for survival, mainly because there are no jobs.
Since  the  majority of people involved in begging are people with disability and women with children, there is the need  for the country to adopt a social welfare system to improve the lot of  these people and keep them off the streets.