I'm in St. George's Mall with four of the children. They're actually day time. They come in during the day to beg for money. And generally tourists give them money.

And this is actually causing more problems because they are coming in and they are getting more money on the streets than what they would do in their families. So it's preventing these children from actually going in to school and preventing them from their home life.

And their parents are sending them out onto the street to get that money and they are using them as an income for their families. So they are going back with this money to pay for things like food when these children should really be in school.

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