GLOBAL 3000 | The Plight of Street Kids in Berlin

Berlin’s Alexanderplatz –Rina and her friends meet here every day. These kids are living on the streets. The closest thing they have to family are each other and Alexanderplatz is a kind of home to them –no matter the wind or the weather. None of them has a real home. They ran away to escape intolerable conditions in the homes of their parents: Beatings, abuse, and neglect. It’s estimated that 7000 such kids live on the streets of Germany –one third of them in Berlin. Nobody knows how many for sure, The aid organization, Karuna, tries to help. They provide the kids with warm meals, drinks, fruit, first aid treatment. Karuna also has a work station where the kids and where social workers try to help them to get of the streets and back into society.

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Deustchland has quite an extensive social system. Doesn't it have a social net for homeless young people? I know if you stay in school and graduate, you get unemployment, health care, and other subsidies when in need as well as employment career assistance. It's much more a social system than we have in America. They need to do more for the disadvantaged young people.

Is Germany in the process of going away from the social system to a free market where you're on your own to fend for yourself?