Talisay City Dad Asks Business Firms to Provide for Beggars

With the number of beggars and street children increasing each day, Talisay City Councilor Aldrin Diaz is proposing to provide them aid through the private firms.

Diaz, in his proposed resolution, said the city should select business establishments to be enrolled in the program, wherein each of them must “impose an admission fee of five-pesos on every customer patron.” The funds will go to the city’s social welfare amelioration trust funds for beggars and street children. He said that the same program is done with other local government units.

“The city has been plagued with destitute citizens: street children and senior citizens who roam the streets and sleep along the sidewalks and parks in search for their daily foods,” Diaz said. And since the city, with its limited funds, could not help all of them it is best to tap the business sector, he said.

“If uncared for, the conscious disregard of these citizens blemish the reputation of the City of Talisay as the seat of Christianity of the country and as a premier tourist stop-over which will pose serious moral and economic reputations if left unattended, contrary to the avowed goals of the New Society aspiring for development through social justice and compassion,” the councilor said.

His proposal was set to be tackled in today’s regular session of the council.