City Hall, aid groups agree to conduct census of street people
A week after it called off a failed sweep of the city’s vagrants, City Hall held a meeting with four NGOs and district authorities Friday in which they agreed to form a joint committee to conduct a census of street sellers and beggars, according to the municipal spokesman. An initiative to clear Phnom Penh’s streets of beggars and homeless people was cancelled by City Hall on June 12 after the NGOs supposedly partnering in the effort refused to take in children and adults that had been rounded up by municipal authorities. City Hall promised to delay its efforts until a plan was in place to deal with the city’s street people. …
Kuch Naren
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