The Unemployed Find Work Selling Food

International Business Times

Lebanese flags, chanting demonstrators and poster-wielding protesters surrounded Bassam Sarhal as he wove through the massive crowd at Beirut’s latest anticorruption protest. Sarhal, a slight, deeply tanned man in his fifties, dodged rowdy teenagers and ducked under flagpoles. The plastic cups of orange and lemon juice on the tray he was holding never wobbled.

Sarhal was one of the dozens of vendors in Beirut's Martyr's Square on Wednesday who were selling snacks, sandwiches, water and cigarettes to the thousands of protestors. Large crowds of thirsty, hungry and hot people present a much-needed opportunity to make some money. Though the vendors aren't part of Lebanon's growing movement against government "greed," they represent Lebanon's major problems: unemployment and poverty.

From: International Business Times
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