"In  another  few  years,These  beggar  children  will  no  longer  be  in  the  beggar  world.The  beggar  child  today  will  be  a  complete  anti-social personTomorrow  as  he  or  she  is  not  socialized  by  the  beggar  world
But  by  the  under  world  directly  connected  to  it.Do  we  like  to  see several  thousand  little  beggar  children becoming criminals?Will  the  society  be  able  to  bear  this  social  burden?Are  we  to  wait  till  then  to find  a  solution  to  this problem?"

--- Professor Nandasena Rathnapala "The Begger in Sri Lanka" (Sinhala Version) ---