evidence: The media reports quoting Wasantha Athukorala, a senior professor at Peradeniya University’s Department of Statistics and Data Studies, that the number of minor street children begging around the island is about thirty thousand. [...] Parents or temporary guardians take steps to employ these young children in begging as well as in other money-making activities. The professor also mentioned that most of the children between the age of 04-15 who beg alone or with adults in the centers of crowded cities, shrines etc. do not go to school.