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Bavaria’s refugee aid suffers from collective burnout
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The retired Bundeswehr Colonel Georg Schrenk and the 64-year-old educator Barbara Brüning are still involved in refugee aid in Dillingen. Many others have long since given up.
(Photo: Thomas Balbierer)
Frustrated, tired, overwhelmed: the number of volunteers is decreasing in many places, although the challenges are hardly any less. What’s going on there? Visiting those who continue – still.
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Thomas Balbierer, Dillingen
The hair has become whiter, the handshake has become softer and the lines around the eyes have deepened a little. Otherwise, Georg Schrenk has hardly changed since the Dillinger Helpers’ Circle was founded almost eight years ago. Just like with meetings in 2015, the 73-year-old can still talk about the details of the right of residence and talk about the major political lines in the very next sentence. “Apart from the climate crisis, escape is the greatest challenge of the century,” he says in one of these moments.
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