Many people wanted to help during the Corona-crisis of the hardships of the Poorest heard. Auxiliary equipment had to suddenly starving your offer, and without the retreat of the misery on the road was more visible than before. Volunteers involved in the boards, went out, Packed Lunches and collected donations. That was a good one. But too many put themselves on their own fist in the station district, and distributed bread or even boiled in soups. It was well-meant. But “good” is meant the opposite of “good”.

Frankfurt has offered a sophisticated System of support services and facilities that support the needy: Since the apartment is lots of help, as meeting points for women, for Pregnant women, advice for men’s, laundromats, street, ambulance, and institutions such as the St. Francis meeting, and it outputs regulated food. To distribute to these organizations over eating the problem has been exacerbated by the train station.

The impoverishment of the people

specialists say that it is from a social pedagogical perspective, is a bad idea to bring food to the people on the road. First, it reinforces the Bearings in one place – who, ten times a day food is brought, you can draw in an entrance of a house, and there to endure. This leads to the impoverishment of the people: they lie in their own excrement, and vermin, are not looking for start-up place, where wounds or diseases can be treated. Doctors report that the medical condition of many people on the roads pathetic: open legs, festering wounds, psychotic relapses.

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adopts Secondly, it is the people with the last Rest of self-care. Anyone who is homeless or because of his drug use, the majority of the time on the road spending is, however, not a Zoo animal, the should be fed by well meaning people. The short walk to the Kontaktcafé, in a queue, replace with other, the toilets use – all of that falls away. This leads, thirdly, to waste and sewage problems. The city finds no quick solutions, adds to this.