A homeless man skin another a cardboard box from the Hand. “Do you need Fucking really?” he yells at him. Then he helps his buddy to grab stuff in a shopping cart. On Friday morning, only six of the homeless are in the cold train station Lichtenberg. Around 20 of the BVG security forces wait patiently. A guy is kneeling with a beer on the ground, another scream. “Outside there’s coffee,” a street worker to get them to leave. There, in front of the station entrance, set up some homeless people already have their day-camp. Because starting tomorrow, it will go strict to the U-Bahnhof Lichtenberg, which was opened in the cold days for the homeless. Social workers from Karuna e. V. are spot on – especially the night security staff. Today, the Karuna social workers have awakened to the homeless already 8 o’clock and brought out – so that, when the BVG security forces are all gone, and the Situation can escalate. The homeless people have taken their stuff, but a lot of rum. Collected and disposed of.
The season of cold, the help is coming to an end. Now, where it is already warmer, to be the train station during the day, free for the passers-by. The complaints about smell, Aggression, and trash had collected in the past few weeks in the city, such as social workers, Lutz Müller-Bohlen told, almost on a daily basis. Local residents reported of a dispute between the homeless, fisticuffs, loud roar – and the children would make the fear. And occasionally, someone would urinate chair. The toilets were placed outside what works actually also, says Müller-Bohlen.
There were a lot of complaints – but also solidarity
“On Saturday we will Wake up our guests here at an early stage,” says Jörg Richert, Chairman of the Board of the Karuna Social Association. From 22 clock the homeless can use up to 8 at the station – until 30. April. From 1. May the Lichtenberg station is, how many institutions of “cooling assistance”, not a place to spend the night. Actually, the rail station of Lichtenberg was not intended as a place to stay for the day. Actually, the LPP wanted to make it here once per day to clean, the homeless should only be on at night. In practice, this does not work, train station, users complained that the homeless would live here. The LPP allowed for the days of stay, but at last it came to a dispute between the BVG and Karuna relating to the use of. In January, the street worker tape were used to parcels for the homeless. The LPP did not like that. This is for fire technical reasons, not possible. A spokeswoman for defendant in January, the street workers would occasionally do so, as they owned the station.
If it succeeds, the homeless in the morning to 8 o’clock out? “We’ll see about that,” says social worker Müller-Bohlen. Today, Friday it works well. Karuna, however, had to get an extension to 10 a.m. approved.
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in addition to the criticism, there is also solidarity by the residents of Lichtenberg. A school class wants to talk soon with the homeless people. A woman almost every evening, coffee and fruit, a small group comes several times a week to bring a hot meal, which is output in the opposite café. This café can be used during the day. The opening Hours were adjusted. The Humanist Association operates, as before, from 8 to 17 o’clock to the daily meeting with the soup kitchen, clothing room, shower facilities and offer medical care. Between 18 and 6 o’clock, he leaves the entire ground floor with the dining room and toilets, the social workers of Karuna and the homeless. In the three hours of closing time of the rooms to be cleaned. 30 people can fit in here.
The question is, where are the homeless to stay during the day, and whether it will be the cold train station, also next year. Richert of Karuna thinks that the homeless people would take advantage of the large shelters less and less. Not only in Berlin but also in Paris and other large cities can be observed. He proposes that the churches of the city open in the Winter as it is in New York. “Maybe we are already in the next period of cold to help with a combination of the station and the Church?” The train station was as a place of arrival is important, spend the night, but you could do it in a Church. Then the station could be cleaned at night.
Also Hendrikje Klein, Deputy to the Left of Lichtenberg, the train station, with its intermediate levels are actually quite well-suited. It is not a solution to remove the homeless from the city. “Encounter also makes a lot possible,” says Small. In addition, it could be an idea to open the vestibules of public swimming pools in the cold time. There are toilets and showers – but here, too, the homeless would have to get up early for the operation.
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The rest of the homeless at the cold station did not make it, meanwhile, is still to leave this. A BVG employee folds together skillfully a sleeping bag, last Deposit collected bottles. Much remained: Blankets, shoes, mattresses, Jackets. “We have new sleeping bags for the people,” says social worker Müller-Bohlen. What’ll lie here no longer good to us, smell or be wet. That is all people are unworthy, you don’t need to discuss. He is pleased that today’s eviction went so far to take place without violence. The homeless would have helped today, Tomorrow, each other, to pack the belongings and stand up. You’ll see how it goes tomorrow. A homeless man who has set up his camp in front of the station, says he’ll be with the Stand up. The difficulty is, to drag every day all this stuff out and in again.
A, was actually the jewel of this cold train station, has left him: The former homeless André Hoek had been hired as a social worker at Karuna e. g. He was Recently fired, still in the trial period. It should always be come back to confrontations with homeless people and the security personnel. Hoek denies the allegations and has applied for re Hartz IV.
“violence in any Form and against anyone is unacceptable and cannot be tolerated by us,” said Richert from the Karuna Board to the case of Hoek. One eighth Hoeks commitment to homeless people and would be glad “to him outside of our organization to support, so he can bring his perspective as a formerly self-Affected”.
Berlin wants to put in the future to former homeless people as a street worker. This could be, for example, as a pilot in the city and the homeless appeal. So the Plan of social Senator Elke Breitenbach (Left). “Ex-homeless emergencies see better, as a trained social worker,” says the laid-off Hoek. “There are things that can be learned at any University, you know, if you have lived on the street.”
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