Tag: Poverty in Munich
Munich: City wants to provide tampons and sanitary pads – Munich
In the future, the city wants to make tampons and pads available free of charge in public toilets. A pilot project is scheduled to start at the beginning of 2025…
SZ Advent calendar: Hard work and heartfelt desires – Munich
War, war and war again: Janatgul Y. comes from a country that was in constant turmoil long before he was born. When he was still a child and could have…
SZ Advent Calendar: When the washing machine is the desk – Munich
Emilia, Johannes and Simon love the dates and nuts baked in yeast dough and the intense taste of cardamom. This time, her mom didn’t bake the Christmas cookies from her…
SZ Advent calendar: After moving from the dorm, the family needs furniture – Munich
The hallway alone is a challenge: the apartment door opens and behind the threshold there is a lot of air. At the very back, near the large window facing the…
SZ Advent Calendar: Diakonie Hasenbergl supports young people – Munich
From children’s home to children’s home, to a residential group and finally to the psychiatric hospital. Before Deniz N. (Name changed by the editors), 16, was allowed to go home…
SZ Advent Calendar: Father gives up his job because of his depressed daughter – Munich
Sophia’s grades had already dropped six months earlier. When her father Oliver Fräg went to his daughter’s bedside in the morning in December 2021 so that she could get out…
SZ Advent Calendar: Despite two jobs, it’s barely enough to live on. – Munich
Open detailed view Poverty can isolate and make you sick. (Photo: Jessy Asmus) From Monday to Friday, Lena’s night ends at five o’clock. Half an hour later her mother leaves…
SZ Advent calendar: Single father lives with two sons in a one-room apartment – Munich
“Verbs are also called doing words, but in Latin they are called verbs.” Rachid pushes his large blue Harry Potter glasses up the bridge of his nose and continues the…
Poverty in Munich: "It’s not true that no child in Munich has to go hungry"
No money for winter shoes, a school trip or a movie with your girlfriend. In wealthy Munich, thousands of children and young people live in poverty. The planned basic child…
Munich: SZ readers’ charity with a new manager – Munich
After almost ten years as managing director of the “Advent calendar for good works of the Süddeutsche Zeitung” Anita Niedermeier, 63, is taking early retirement at the end of the…