PUBLISHED: 14 Aug 2024 at 07: 14
Following a surge in man figures, a nationwide survey revealed a need to discourage giving cash to beggars. The Ministry of Social Development and Human Security will establish a plan to urge the people to do so.
The campaign release is scheduled for Friday at the Bangkok Art and Culture Center in the Pathumwan region, according to Minister Varawut Silpa-archa.
Related sectors, including the Bangkok Metropolitan Administrative ( BMA ), the Metropolitan Police Bureau ( MPB), the Immigration Bureau, the Mirror Foundation, and networks working to alleviate the beggar problem, are expected to participate in the event.
The participants may even hand out battle pamphlets– written in Thai, English, Chinese, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Thai– to people at Pathumwan Intersection and along Rama I and Phaya Thai roads, said Mr Varawut.
The strategy aims to raise awareness of the growing problem of beggars and promote legal and regulatory measures to reduce the number of beggars while attempting to alter the mindset of those who give them money.
Individuals have a tendency to feel sorry for orphans who suffer or act like they have disabilities. Additionally, they believe that the act of compassion serves as a means of generating validity.
Some beggars are frequently trafficked or hired to carry out illegal activities, and the mood perpetuates the issue.
According to Mr. Varawut, the agency’s battle found 506 beggars nationwide in the fiscal year that ended next month, an increase of 20 % over last year.
Of those, 331, or 65 %, were Thai citizens. The government also discovered that 24 % were follow beggars.
The majority of orphans were discovered in Bangkok and important tourist destinations like Chon Buri, Chiang Mai, Phuket, and Lop Buri.
In the meantime, nine counties were beggar-free: Chai Nat, Sing Buri, Satun, Nakhon Phanom, Lampang, Phetchaburi, Nan, and Phangnga, said Mr Varawut.
He added beggars numbered 7, 635 from October 2014 to July this year, 65 % of them were Thai, and the rest were foreign nationals.
Mr Varawut said the majority of gypsies worked in big cities and tourist cities, particularly in Bangkok, Samut Prakan, Pathum Thani, Chon Buri, Nakhon Ratchasima, and Chiang Mai.