Last year, there were media reports that a ninety-nine-year-old mother-in-law in Tai Po was selling puppies on the street, and revealed that her mother-in-law had a tragic life and sold dogs to make ends meet. She also pointed out a few days ago that when she visited her mother-in-law in recent months, she had not seen any cases of dog sales. With the improvement, the living environment has become worse and worse, and some netizens described it as "the sad song of the bottom of society".
In fact, poverty and loneliness among the elderly are serious problems in society, and similar situations can be found everywhere in and outside the district.
A Tai Po District Councillor pointed out that he also followed up a couple who had been picking up paper and sundries for a long time, causing trouble to the neighbors. They believed that the government needed to review the amount of Old Age Allowance and CSSA, so that grassroots elders would no longer need to use these methods to help make up for it. livelihood.
The program "Looking Around" once reported that a ninety-year-old mother-in-law was selling puppies on Tai Po Street.
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According to a report in Looking Around, the old mother-in-law who sells dogs on the streets of Tai Po lives alone in a simple wooden house. Although she has four children, all of them have emigrated to foreign countries and rarely come back to visit her mother-in-law.
The mother-in-law lives on the monthly old age allowance of about 1,000 yuan. She has three big dogs at home, and the puppies they give birth to become the source of income for the mother-in-law. She sells the puppies on the street at a price of 200 to 300 yuan each. , and on weekdays, in addition to cooking porridge, he also rummages through the garbage station for leftover food and bones to feed the dogs.
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The incident attracted the attention of netizens. In addition to worrying about the health of the dog and whether it could be sterilized, the story of the mother-in-law also moved many people.
They thought it was very pitiful for a ninety-year-old mother-in-law who had four children to live alone and take care of herself in these ways. At the same time, they pointed out that her mother-in-law did not sterilize the dog, and it was definitely her problem.
District Councilor: I will try to contact my mother-in-law
Tai Po District Councilor Au Zhenhao said that he had not received any help or feedback from the neighbors about the dog-selling mother-in-law in the past, but he would check with the SWD to see if any social workers were following up, and would try to find her mother-in-law on the streets of Tai Po Market.
The district also pointed out that there are several elderly people in the district, such as Tai Yuen Village and Tai Po Centre, who used to pick up and sell paper wrappers, hoping to help them make ends meet.
One of them was an elderly couple who, after being ordered by the Housing Department to move out of Kwong Fuk Village, placed a large amount of sundries on the football field in the district, under the bridge along the riverside of Lam Village, in the back alley and in the industrial estate, causing dissatisfaction among many neighbors. What should they do? To a certain extent, it is because the amount of allowances and CSSA is not enough to meet their living expenses, so they need to spend more money to increase their income." Ou Zhenhao believes that whether it is to let social workers The Government needs to step up its efforts to review both the provision of support and care and the CSSA allowance for the elderly.
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