You can't buy much with 25 cents, but you seem to forget that I'm not the only person on the streets giving them donations, so they don't just depend on one person for a living.

The beggars make a fair bit at the end of the day, and they're back again the next day.

Admin Saovaluck wrote on 3^rd May, 2011 at 10:21pm:


So, are you saying: you don't mind taking on the role of benefactress?

Do they even have beds - or matresses - to sleep on? I doubt they sleep where they 'work', right?

What happens when government officials see them? Are they treated with disdain and just ignored or do they give tips as well? Don't the Government help out in some way, shape or form?

Have you ever invited one home?

I don't think government has any social program to help homeless people. Lao worker don't have much for donation, average worker make $100 a month.

$100 a month is per capita income. Some make more, some make less, many in the country side don't have jobs or income at all. Some of my relative are farmer, they don't have regular 9-5 jobs. Some from the country side looking for jobs in Vientiane might get disappointed, and end up going to Thailand looking for work instead. It's not like land of opportunity "U.S.A". Where you can just walk anywhere, to any company and apply for jobs.  

Admin Saovaluck wrote on 3^rd May, 2011 at 11:11pm:


Are you considering asking a beggar home for dinner now?

Where do beggars 'hangout'? I never came across any.

Does Laos have any slums?

Or they could be unemployed or has mental problem. That's why America have free health care for people with disability,  65 and older, they has social security. U.S government don't want to see old people, people with disability, mental problem living in the street. Sometime I think U.S is more socialist then Laos.

I stay with other people, but they all work and are not usually home.

There's a mixture of poor and rich people in Laos.