​Foreign beggar in Kollupitiya

11 July 2015 01:06 pm

A young disabled foreigner and an elderly woman, supposed to be is mother, were seen begging in Kollupitiya town on Thursday evening (09).

The disabled man on crutches moved with difficulty along the road and begged from the vehicles that halted at the traffic signals.

He became a cynosure of the people and they said they had seen hundreds of Sri Lankans begging in busses, trains and in public places, but it was unusual to see a foreigner begging along Sri Lankan streets. (Indika Manoj Cooray)