Many seeking for alms are foreigners, says welfare officer


1 With tissue packets in hand to give away in gratitude, the scrawny man is seen pushing the sleeping boy in a stroller at a restaurant in George Town.2 A beggar with a bandaged right foot in Komtar.3 This beggar got off his wheelchair to beg on the ground in Komtar. Photos: CHAN BOON KAI and ZHAFARAN NASIB/The Star

CRAMMED into a stroller with his legs sticking out, the sleeping boy never moved.

The scrawny man ceaselessly pushed the stroller into restaurants along Macalister Road in George Town.

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