Here I would like to inform you, about a phenomenon that is very common in East Europe and mainly in ex-Soviet countries, namely "the youth beggar squads". If you meet them on the street or petrol station or anywhere you'll feel compassion, but you would never think that it is a business. Yes, people in East Europe live in a difficult economic situation, but as in most cases there is always a solution for working hands. What are these squads all about? Surely they are organized and "managed" by the elderly, who then collect all the begged money. The so called business is flourishing mainly among people of roma nationality. In Ukraine they are always associated with crime, robbery and guilt itself. One should also know that in roma tradition a large family prevails. So usually a roma family consists of up to 10 persons, or even more. As parents do not get job, children are left carelessly on the street sometimes even without education. With time parents forced their own children to look for bread and money. Children had only one opportunity: to learn. Learn to beg or learn to steal. As the law prescribes that children under 14 could not been punished, and also the law enforcement officers did not get the chance to control every single kid that time (or anytime), they found it as a hobby or a habit or even worse as a profession. They saw that with stealing money they can afford different things and feel a bit equal with those from whom they take. Parents got a chance to make money with the help of their children. Later they decided to involve also other homeless children into these "family” black business. To enlarge the enterprise they need more and more "laborers", so they purchase (for hard American dollars) other homeless children or sometimes even kidnap. So the business develops and little is done to stop it.
How do these children live? I would say from one day to another, as they are aware of the fact that their life is just a favor and that they are not the lords of their "skin". In the enterprise they surely do not get enough food and closing to look more miserable, but they get the chance to travel, from one city to another as even for these beggars the worlds is getting more globalized and mobile!
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