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Children: Two Scenes, One Picture

February 2, 2010 4 Comments

So many are the scenes you can spot driving through the streets of Amman.

Words and photography by Ola Eliwat.

Children playing on the street. Cute, and it’s even more cute when you honk at them from some distance and they start running quickly as if they didn’t run fast enough, you would actually go ahead and run them over.

The other picture wasn’t as cute.

A little girl at the traffic light, with her mother, a beggar. The little girl had a shawl wrapped around her head and shouldres, her mother was trying to adjust if as if to protect her from the cold weather. It didn’t seem to be doing much. It was obvious that the little girl didn’t understand why she was being dragged on the streets in such chilling weather.

Sorry I couldn’t capture the first scene with my camera, those children run so fast, that girl on the other hand, didn’t seem to be going anywhere.

Phil

Thank-you for reminding us.
http://twitter.com/tarawnah Naseem Tarawnah

There seems to be a return of peddlers now. Every time the government cracks down they disappear only to come back a few days later. If anything that usually indicates that whatever policy they're implementing isn't working. There's no social safety net for these people. No rehabilitation, no alternative to the status quo. Jobs are hard to come by and let's face it, begging in west amman is quite the money maker, especially in the summer months. The winter is a time when they play up sympathies. The use of little girls as props has also seemed to have increased (from observation).
Phil

Thank-you for reminding us.
Tarawnah

There seems to be a return of peddlers now. Every time the government cracks down they disappear only to come back a few days later. If anything that usually indicates that whatever policy they're implementing isn't working. There's no social safety net for these people. No rehabilitation, no alternative to the status quo. Jobs are hard to come by and let's face it, begging in west amman is quite the money maker, especially in the summer months. The winter is a time when they play up sympathies. The use of little girls as props has also seemed to have increased (from observation).