They sit around all day, waiting for handouts".
Once among the most self-sufficient people on earth, many of them now live on the dole, waiting for handouts.
Some had placed empty bowls on their heads, waiting for handouts of food because they had been driven from their land.
My little town never waited for handouts or help from authorities when we were hit by massive floodings due to a cyclone.
He is part of a community of more than 700 families who live in the camp and scrape together a living doing manual labour and waiting for handouts from aid agencies.
These farmers were the most productive part of Ethiopia's workforce, known for producing some of the best coffee in the world, and yet as more and more coffee shops sprung up on every street corner in the west, they were being paid less and less, forced to join the queue waiting for handouts from the west.
Don't let them sit around waiting for handouts.
I want to make sure that what I'm putting in is what I'm getting out, not sitting around in some council office waiting for handouts.
They mostly just sit around waiting for handouts from the press office and hope to be called upon to ask some "gotcha" question whenever there is a press conference.
They know the pulse of the prison they'll often ignore us as we walk to chow, but when we're leaving chow, they will line up along the walks waiting for handouts.
They know the pulse of the prison — they'll often ignore us as we walk to chow, but when we're leaving chow, they will line up along the walks waiting for handouts.
