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Stop using the schoolchildren.
Byline: K.N. Damodaran
I WISH to respond to IDB's "Uniformed beggars - Don't exploit them in quest for funds" (NST, July 21). This practice of forcing children to collect donations for school projects has been going on for a long time in spite of laws that forbid it. The schools and the Education Department have turned a deaf ear to Section 32 of the Child Act 2001, which reads: "Children not to be used for begging, etc. Any person who causes or procures any child or being a person having care of a child allows that child to be on any street premises or place for the purpose of : a) begging... or offering anything for sale; "...commits an offence and shall on …
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