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ELITE Vol.1, Issue 42, April 2022
Vol.1, Issue 42, April 2022

The Beggars’ drama

Youssef Adel

During your daily life and your moving through the streets, place with many foreigners of different nationalities, as it
alleys and squares you will find a common factor among all is a good opportunity and a new market to the begging
Egyptian streets in the Great Cairo which is the existing of industry, and on your way to Hada’k el Ahram or October
people of all ages asking you a charity and financial aid to solve area , if you take the ring road , you will find a group of
their endless problems, to back to their far away town or for a strong-willed young men at the beginning of the road
surgery …..etc begging and chasing cars, especially modern and
Beggars are widely distributed on the streets of the capital and expensive cars, asking for money and charity for help!
Great Cairo in important and touristic areas , me and two You will find them in October, Sheikh Zayed, Nasr City
Australian persons were exposed to an urgent attempt for money and Heliopolis, and it has become an industry for
by a 9 years old girl in front of the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir everyone and does not know the meaning of racism.
square and once again in The Nile Palace bridge ,not to mention
the existing chaos in The Mohandessin and Dokki area, which is Sometimes I encounter Syrians asking for charity because
famous for being a center for Arab housing in Great Cairo they are refugees.
where beggars approach thugs and thieves taking the money For something that is surprising here, most of these areas
from you by the violence , urgent ,pressure or trying to get your are not slums and areas with a presence and a good
attention to something more important than the money like concentration of the Egyptian police forces. I do not know
being harassed or accused of harassing this poor girl who what prevents them from dealing firmly with the situation.
persuading hard to get her lunch, you human wolf ,over time I do not attack the police and the Ministry of the Interior, I
beggars in Mohndessin and Dokki area became targets the know that begging and beggars in Egypt have become
Arabs more than Egyptians but there is no objection to trying to cancerous cells that Reproducing hysterically and run by
get money from Egyptians too, as sea loves to increase gangs and groups that divide work tasks among their
It did not stop at Mohandessin, Dokki and downtown, so we members as if you were in a large corporation, but this
always see beggars in front of Cairo University, whether from problem must be placed on the priorities of the Egyptian
the side of the main door of the university or from the side of state and its various agencies in the coming period, It is a
the traffic light. All this happens in front of one of the oldest problem no less dangerous for development in Egypt and
universities in the Middle East. the tourism sector than the threat of terrorism, which we
I live in Hada’k el Ahram area - close to the Grand Egyptian all faced as a people and state agencies with the utmost
Museum and the Pyramids of Giza - and the area has turned into decisiveness.. The problem of beggary in Egypt is linked
a new chapter of the beggars play, because the area has become to more than one problem whose repercussions will
inhabited by people with a good social status, and with the appear directly in the future, such as street children,
opening of the museum it will be a
illiteracy and organized crime.

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