tv Reporter Deutsche Welle August 10, 2019 1:15pm-1:31pm CEST
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and domenic go to desk just to name a few. you're watching news from berlin up next a reporter which this week follows a young mexican volunteer who works in an addiction support center in germany i'll be back with more news at the top of the hour as always this is the. earth the home worth saving google images tell stories of creative people and innovative projects around the world ideas to protect the climate and boost green energy solutions and global ideas being by a new series of global 3000 on d w and online. this is something timeless brentano's came from jurors or dealing with a name and then i killed many civilians and i should come including my father while
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. i was a student and i wanted to build a life for myself. but suddenly life became alledge kind of sob. providing insights global news that matters d. w. made for minds. of i'm doing something social and i'm very proud of it. says the minister is is from mexico which is poor now he's living in germany which is rich he's volunteering at an addiction treatment center in the belief that. led vets the german government's volunteer exchange program made it possible. for the world.
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to see that yeah. shirts which means a print here is one of the 1st german words that moore says learns he'll be spending the next 18 months working in this kitchen at this addiction treatment center in p.d.f. it at him and i'm sure i'm super sexy. it's his 1st day and the 1st customers are about to arrive. locals with drug problems can come here for a cheap breakfast moises works with children back in mexico he chose this job deliberately because he wants to know how to help addicts a huge. new deal is that i had an uncle with alcohol problems. he lived a kind of vagabond life and one day he was found dead in
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a ditch. and i don't know what happened to him i think. maybe he was run over by a car before. they'd. have thought that. plate. then you have to ask them if they want plain rolls or whole grain once. i will take a plain white. room the 1st customer with good morning. in cologne hello good morning. and. i too want some breakfast and just one run physically as my says. ok. nobody here is charged for taking drugs. my idea is that addict should be helped with no strings attached. them often in germany like in mexico people with
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drug problems are frequently ostracized by society sometimes and. good they get because of the day you're welcome you speak spanish spanish you go. to this place those. who want them go. in the other one maybe. it's time to prepare lunch now. everything is new for moises the 24 year old is from the indigenous torso maya community in a mexican state of chap last. few people that can afford further education. moyses his family saved up so that he could study social work. staff and often often come in and it was
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a big complicated but i had the biggest motivation in the world. and i wanted to study and conquer the world. yet the café is only one part of the center. both louise unless man is the center's manager we're home to. his past still support and there's also a room here where people can talk about their social or legal problems. here are 2 of our colleagues according to us. oh yeah those who come here can also take a shower and wash their clothes and they can even take drugs in a safe and clean environment under supervision. ok arche it's a comedy unless you're know people can exchange needles here and many of them get
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substitute medication. about $100.00 people a day come here for almost. $100.00 people per day. although they say there's no way they were there. 3 weeks later. mr vickie. yes thank you. doug you're welcome. we want to eat the same food room for 5 minutes they're. not my idea he went on i get on really well with most of them you know they know that i don't speak german so they just use different words to describe what they want like a big coffee until i understand. see. some people come here for lunch every day. just. yet i am very good with. their bread broth.
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would you like bread. on the. big. sign this won't. look it's all. dessert bread no. no certainly moises is all learn. what's going on hey look i think they're fighting but that doesn't usually happen here it's the 1st time i've seen it. discuss scene comes down the security stuff on signs. on noises has to harvey off after lunch. and out of advent fallen test take a daily german class and benefit. the out as a from nicaragua zimbabwe all suffer africa for example.
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math what do you wear at work. if i wear a gray pullover and blue gym shoo. shoo. shoo. yes shoe. the boat that's program was originally for young germans who wanted to volunteer abroad but since 2013 people from other countries have also been coming to germany to carry out voluntary service. the idea is that they take the skills that they learn here back home. and as if they're a good idea for me it's been in it well i never saw anything is a culture that's was very interesting it's different if main thing do. you like doing things because yes that's right i mean. me.
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told me it's raining yet it wasn't easy for me to get here. i thought moises his relatives had to walk for an hour to talk to him this is the 1st time they've spoken since moises left mexico they speak in south morse's parents don't speak spanish and here only down to that school. norm. music is he says that he's very happy because it's what he's always dreamed of for me but he says that only a few people would make it this far only those who are intelligent. he says i am intelligent. in anything and there's. any hint.
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well american always has brought some photos with him from home one of them is of him as a little boy in the middle. of the attack and this is his father cooking at home. the total community is very deprived there's a lot of poverty and hardly any work young people try to leave if they can many want to go to the u.s. and germany noise us receives 400 euros for his food and accommodation every month he sends some of that home to his family to support them. on a shared. take care of course. oh god i've got to go now. there's a permit cause you know what to merrick isn't one. good. morning says and then a share a flat down as a social worker he's been to mexico before and now is the country while. they cook
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together moises can improve his german and then as can brush up on his spanish. it was. developed that program has its critics something that the volunteers come because they want to stay in germany after best and that this is certainly not the case for maurice's. buck you're right in saying that rice is my i would never exchange my my and roots not for anything i'm very proud of them of being part of an indigenous community is that i know what it means to not have much to know how difficult life is. i feel a big responsibility to return to my people and help them value that. we can operate it when i pitied the broadway turn. mine with my brother's name in mexico yeah hi. horn earth is han
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us you're on us. it rhymes it was i'm high and i know it's just your nose right yeah yeah join us in spanish its horn us. through. it's the 1st time that noise as a supervising the sentence weekly forest project for children affected by alcoholism and addiction. however who would like to show most is the housewife. in mexico moses works at a kindergarten for indigenous children. there is a way that this is my 1st experience of working with children in a forest it's fun. i'll. convert up there are notorious here and the children don't receive any instructions instead they're encouraged to come into contact with their own
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creativity to this time in the forest gets them away from that difficult daily lives at least once a week. most us plans to put these nature related educational concepts into practice back home. what else is he acquiring in germany. which are 6 pretty is a lot of work and life experience that i can share in mexico put up with it but these are for your. more as a stream is to go back home after a year well equipped to improve the lives of his fellow tots all my our people. are going to.
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