San Fernando City in Pampanga province warned that anybody caught giving alms to beggars and mendicants will be fined at least P3,000, as it moved for the “strict implementation” of its 7-year-old ordinance prohibiting almsgiving.
The city’s programs included the rounding up of street children and road beggars for intervention.
Some of the rescued street kids were given education through an alternative learning system while some city resident mendicants were given livelihood training. Beggars from other localities were sent back to their respective places of origin, including the Aetas from the upland areas of western Pampanga towns.
Several residents have criticized on social media the city government’s announcement, saying that penalizing individuals for helping beggars contradicts Christian laws. In nearby Angeles City, which started strictly implementing its own anti-mendicancy law last May, about half of the some 500 rounded-up mendicants were sent back to their respective families in different villages of the city and other towns and provinces.While San Fernando imposes a fine of at least P3,000 on an almsgiver, Angeles only collects a P20 fine from people caught giving money or food to mendicants.Your subscription has been successful.
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