Turning Nightclubs Into Homeless Shelters After Doors Close: It’s A Thing

Berlin will get chilly within the winter. A 14-day forecast from immediately reveals temperatures starting from 27 levels Fahrenheit in the course of the night time to a excessive 45 levels in the course of the day. For many individuals, they will afford to bundle up or work in heated buildings and drive in heated autos. For Berlin’s homeless inhabitants, the climate could be lethal.


Thankfully, the town’s nightclubs are standing up and doing one thing about it. Two golf equipment within the Kreuzberg-Friedrichshain (the second borough Berlin), Astra Kulturhaus and Bi Nuu, will take days out they common present schedule to open their doorways to the homeless, fering a heat place to sleep for the night time. No point out meals was made within the experiences. No precise statistics exist on the quantity homeless within the metropolis, however estimates counsel the quantity is round 10,000.

Sara Luhmann, a spokesperson for the district the place the 2 nightclubs are situated, instructed Der Tagesspiegel, a German every day newspaper: “It’s nice when nightclubs make such fers and tackle social accountability. We are comfortable about each extra fer to additional develop the quantity chilly climate locations.”

 

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