INTERNATIONAL VENDORS DAY
Remember that November 14 is not just Children's Day or just World diabetes day.
Another important day celebrated on November 14 is international vendors day which is being celebrated from 2012 onwards.
So do spare a thought at least on this day a for this group of unorganised workers who toil hard to make their living.
These vendors are mostly from the economically deprived section of the society and struggle very hard to earn just a few rupees a day.
Yet it is with these helpless vendors who sell vegetables or some small eats or small items of daily use that we bargain using all our skills to save a rupee or two.
It is a shame that we view them with such mistrust contempt and callousness, refusing to acknowledge that they are just trying to earn their livelihood not make huge profits like the malls and huge shops and brightly lit markets.
Remember that not only we the customer but every govt official too, be it the police or municipal inspector or train ticket inspector for the train vendors extracts a bribe and also an item from these hapless sellers.
Just ponder for a while the exploitation and humiliation and aggression that a street vendor has to face daily in his life.
And if he sells perishables it is even more tragic when his stuff is not sold for the day.
Have you ever thought of this?
Ponder over all This
And if possible
* once a week or so, buy some item from a vendor without bargaining too much
* go to your weekly shandy or market regularly and buy from them rather than from the malls
* if a vendor is asking the right price encourage him and make friends with him. The gratitude he shows to you will give you immense satisfaction
* once in a while give a rupee more than what the vendor asks
See the happiness in his eyes- (he will give you one more fruit - they have their own sense of Integrity too )
* do encourage vendors- think of them as your own kith and see the joy they treat you with and contentment they will give you
* once a month or so take some amount and spend it for buying from just vendors
Happy vendors day
Give them an honourable living.
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