Beer is free, as long as you clean the streets. ....i wish i was in Gemany.lol

City of Essen offers small cash sum and bottles of beer
to aid alcoholics who are " socially isolated and
stigmatised" .
A German city is set to start a controversial project to
pay alcohol and drug addicts to clean the streets in
return for beer, tobacco , food and small amounts of cash .
Organisers said on Tuesday that social workers would
closely oversee the project , dubbed " Pick Up" , in a
dilapidated area around the central railway station of the
industrial western city of Essen .
A team of six people will sweep streets and collect
rubbish in return for $ 1.50 an hour, a warm meal and
three bottles of beer after their shift , as well as tobacco
for smokers, reported the Die Welt newspaper.
The plan has drawn sharp criticism , with one aid group
for the homeless labelling the " cheap labour" project
dehumanising and asking why alcoholics should be given
beer on the public tab .
The project managers, Suchthilfe Direkt , however argue
the scheme aims to reintegrate into society the most
severe addicts of multiple substances , usually hard drugs
and alcohol.
" The project participants are people who need to have a
daily structure just to get back on their feet , " its
coordinator Oliver Balgar told the Bild newspaper.
The project is based on similar Dutch initiatives.
Its primary aim is " harm reduction " for people not yet
able or willing to go fully abstinent, to discourage them
from consuming harder alcohol and to bring them into
closer contact with social and medical services.
Those taking part will be mostly long- term unemployed
and heavily addicted people for whom therapies have
failed, who have health problems and are " socially
isolated and stigmatised" , the group said in a statement .