Huíla: Children become beggars at the doors of hotels in Lubango and in various parts of Angola

Seeing children begging at hotel doors is a scenario that, if on the one hand it can give chills to anyone visiting Lubango for the first time, on the other hand, for natives and residents alike, it is a completely normal photograph, which is daily coexists with it, for allegedly not having in Huíla, on the part of those who govern, concrete social policies, which aim to mitigate the situation.

The number of children under the age of five becoming beggars has been growing in the Province of Huíla, especially in the Municipality of Lubango, where, in hotel units, the first photograph that a guest can see, right in the entrance, that is, begging for survival, for children, who, because of hunger, wake up early at the door of hotels, waiting for someone who can help them with money, or food, to maintain their lives.

It is a situation that is becoming more acute with each passing day, which according to the residents, they say is the result of the advanced situation of poverty, which is pointed out as being the cause, which has forced to lead to the street, hundreds of children, who by their own means, try to find their livelihood.

If for children the refuge has been begging, for adults, prostitution has become the best way out, with many of them even abandoning their daughters under one year old, to assume the hard task of providing food, through the business. of sex.

University students spare criticism of local government. Jorge Cassule, a university student, accuses the Government of Huíla of not having feasible programs that demonstrate, signs of rescue and instruction of children to guarantee their growth and development at all levels

” In addition to the lack of concrete action on the part of the Ministry of Social Action, the local Government, here in Huíla, does nothing to mitigate this shameful scenario, which contrasts with the clean image that the city of Lubango, which is, what more it is promoted and advertised, instead of worrying about the hunger and misery that has been leading these children to become beggars at the door of every hotel, here in Lubango. Criticized.