The children beggars in Senegal

Website:

http://www.lomography.com/magazine/locations/2010/02/28/the-daraa-and-the-little-talibes-senegal-africa

Summary

Due to different believes:  the learning of the Coran and the poverty, many Muslim children are sending to “Koranic schools” called “Daraa”. These children are too young (between 5 and 6). They have a specific time for begging and learning Coran. These children usually wear untidy clothes with metal container. When they came back with an empty metal container they are beaten and are punished. Marabout said force children to beg because their parents don’t pay fees. The UNICEF is an international organization, it reported that Senegal is the location where most of the beggars are and they represent 1% of the population. One “Daraa” has been visited and they found that the marabout is the one who is the most comfortable and the beggars are in a really bad condition. They have a bad nutrition and are illiterate.  

 

Vocabulary

 

Ragged: worn out

Dusty: dirty

Bowl: sink

Whip: belt

 

Interesting sentence:

Marabouts say they force children to beg for money for food because their parents don’t pay fees.

Meaning of the interesting sentence:

Children are force to beg because they don’t have enough money to give them food. The children’s parents entrust them without paying.

Questions:

I know that it’s because of the poverty that they entrust they children to someone that they don’t know. Personally I’m from Senegal and I know what I’m talking about, these reasons which are given by the marabout can be true but not at all, because I know what these beggars children are suffering. In reality they don’t learn Coran and they passed all the day in the street for begging. That’s why many beggars children robe. My questions are: Where is the government? Why don’t they find solutions for stopping it?