REYNALDO BAYAYA

STEM 1203

“UNDERSTANDING THE LIFE OF PWD BEGGARS”

This paper will explore and seek to “Understand the Life of PWD Beggars”.
Begging is one of the most endemic multifaceted social problems with great
magnitude, but it is less understood in all its dimensions. The people wearing rag
clothes, filthy and looks like they are starving to death are the ones whom they
called as beggars. They are the persons who are unable to enjoy this very basic
right because of poverty and states noninterference about their standards of
life. Beggars remain the most right-less people. In the eyes of public, beggars fall
far below the poor. Begging for money and food in order to survive their daily
lives. Imagine how long they have been there, living on the street alone without
shelter and food.

According to Lorraine Boissoneault, begging has a long, complicated

history. In 19th century papers had grown to plague-proportion. One obvious
reason for this evil is illiteracy, poverty, and unemployment. Their torment leads
them to beg for living. These get more alms as their miserable plight arouses
people’s sympathy. It is a an undeniable fact that beggars beg for a living.
They usually do not have a house to live in, while some of them reside in slum
areas, many are denied entry even at such places. It is certainly a common
sight on the streets of towns and cities around the world today. In the big cities,
footpath and roadside areas are the only places they get to sleep and lead
their lives. During day time, beggars sit on footpath asking the passers-by to lend
them food and money. At night, they sleep in the same place or they will sleep
in a place wherever they are until the sun sets. Along the streets, beggars are
scattered adjuring others in different ways. For instance, a mother cradling her
sick child, a homeless old man or woman, a malnourished child sleeping on the
sidewalk, a disabled person begging at the corner of a crowded street. And
among these beggars, the one who gets more sympathy from other people are
the beggars with disability in view of the fact that they are more necessitous
than others.
 The methodology this research will employ will be a Qualitative research
approach, which is primarily an exploratory research, that is used to gain an
understanding of underlying reasons, opinions, and motivations. This study will
seek to apprehend and infer the life of beggars with disability on how they
survive their daily lives and accept the criticism they get from others. This study
will focus on the phenomenological experiences of selected beggars that are
unable to live a normal life, because they chose the life of being dependent to
other people in order to survive. And this will be done by conducting a one-one
interview with them, recording and writing every answer they will say. And by
observing every change in emotion, gestures and expressions while conducting
the interview.

To further conclude, there are truly a ton of possible various and numerous
reasons that may triggered a PWD to beg. It is possibly because it is their only
and easiest way to sustain their daily needs, begging might serve as a job for
them that became their only source of income, and many more. Further
recommendations will be added, but one thing for sure is that we must learn
how to respect them because they are still mere human being, that continuosly
fight and dream of fulfilling their desires of their heart. So we are not to
discourage them, rather help them ny empowering and turn them as a worthy
and productive individual in the society.

References
 Lorraine Boissoneault. “The Myth of Professional Beggars Spawned Today’s Enduring
Stereotypes” SMITHSONIAN.COM, Smithsonian Books, 30 March 2017.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/myth-professional-beggars-and-why-it-endured-
centuries-180962726/
 https://babaengmamboboso.wordpress.com/2012/04/29/mga-uri-ng-pulubi-sa-pilipinas/

 Groce, Nora, Loeb, Marie,Murray, Barbara. The disabled beggar literature review:
begging as an overlooked issue of disability and poverty.
https://ideas.repec.org/p/ilo/ilowps/994861433402676.html