Birth. Home two moods of species. A home worth saving. Yes those are big changes and most start with small steps but global ideas tell stories of creative people and innovative projects around the world. Like to use the term limits to stop religious organizations and be forced into. The Community Interactive content to choose the next generation of doesnt want to touch it. Using all channels available to inspire people to take action. And more determined to do something here for the next generation the idea is the environment series of global Three Thousand on t w and online. Tonight. Young cats will know what. A Charity Gonna Auction Imbalance if the luxury watch goes for a good price a bird in Childrens Home will get a new sports field Millionaire Co organizer clay stuff going on urges the wealthy guests at the option to dig deep. And no one who wants to buy leon now messes golden boot and with it the virtuous feeling of helping children. You know into the guy after. The people who drive things forward who have the possibilities the time the money and we must get involved we have one of the best countries in the world with the best opportunities so lets help to create equal and fair opportunities for children thank you very much. For months six. Kristoff let us record him on his day to day activities thanks to him and others the resulting film gives an insight into Todays Society in germany at first glance germany is a rich and powerful country full of opportunities but if you look closely even in this industrialized country the wealth is very an equally distributed. Success often depends on where you come from but why should it be that way do these great differences threaten social cohesion to get some answers we talked to some of the leading academics around the world who have specialized in the issue of inequality including Nobel LaureateJoseph Stiglitz the world is at a crossroads today people sense that the control of their nation is being stolen from inequality is the most pressing Social Problem facing us today welcome to the land of inequality. But. High stuff and keeps getting richer. And trying to fix it. But if you have two hundred fifty Million Euros you can throw it out the window and it will come back through the door you can buy cars and real estate that increase in value you buy gold in the gold price goes up you cant destroy money through consumption. And his money in real estate his company says he is behind every third new apartment in cologne. I dont know if we built or renovated everything you see. Tom to get to the top. Pretty funny i always go to work if i have a herniated disc a forty degree fever my wife and i have a fight now i dont sleep i still work the next day and its paid off all through the. So does his success automatically rabaul for his children can you actually buy
life opportunities in germany. Six am. While other fathers are waking children op this millionaire is working up a sweat during an Early Morning workout. Connors every day life is strictly regulated time is money that can be added to anywhere even in the car when he turns the back seat into an office in. Qana seems his assistant actually almost every day about his four children usually only at the
weekends. I mean. As a father you naturally try to get the best for your children. A child that attends a regular school still needs a lot from their parents during the week in there thats where i fail completely. Its also what ive done with my children and its probably more honest is to tell them i wont be around from monday to friday. So i cant give them the attention they might need during that time. And that theyll be under the best supervision somewhere else. And sending your children to a Boarding School perhaps gives them a better chance of getting a good education than School Children who live at home. As a flight. Crew stuff going to. Doesnt want his children to appear in this film
two of them go to an elite Boarding School in another city the school fees are Three Thousand euros a month per child. Three thousand euros per month few families have that much even to live on Four Thousand people live in these high rise blocks known as the vices eat long and cone district mostly large families in two to three room apartments sixty percent of them are on while Family Children who grow up here usually go to those on an Elementary School ninety three percent of the children there do not have to pay for their books because their parents sample. These have been own as Problem Schools for years but no one has done anything about it. And she wouldnt you good morning everyone. Oh. For. What should you pay
attention to when you write a caption for your holiday picture. Made raise your hands. A full stop after a sentence exactly all but two children in your right is to me is fourth grade class have foreign roots just. Yeah. She sets them a written Topic Mine Best experience on holiday. You could also write something about it first and then draw a picture. Called me she said we should meet. During the holidays i had a tournament. We came for. You. And me and my parents went to etiquette supermarkets. I know i got a kinda surprise. And then we went back home. Its mostly gone. Now and i think this is my breakfast but you can have some to. Stephanie five tog is a Teaching Assistant shes there to help with tasks settle disputes and go on school trips. And lead on my life i want to teacher is off sick for a long time and we dont have enough staff that makes me said. He doesnt like and cannot and if the children dont have lessons they dont learn anything i can manage up to the fifth grade you know mom all of us should understand were also doing something nice that we jointly like german most right well i like that not. The most. So those who speak Little German at home need more support there are currently four vacancies for teachers at the school. Smushed my mom i want to become a Civil Engineer because i want to earn a lot of money because thats what my father does and you have to be good at math
but i must decide. After i want to graduate from high school. And work for a coal company film i know how to knock out my. Issues and i want to study. This room and i want to become a doctor because i like helping people. To think. Just a quarter of the children have will make it to high school and the rest of the land its almost twice as many. Yards from the use and they do have their big dreams and goals see this not my views but they may not always know how to achieve them because they somehow dont know the way or its sometimes closed off. Bad. Head teacher kathleen a Polka Mccoury would like to hire more teachers but she only has a little more money to spend than she would have at a school where all the children spoke german and nobody was paul. Im fine large it
was invested in nepal if you could look at what the children eat and hire the people to provide that then things would be completely different is my answer to these monochromatic also the people who live here cant afford a lock how five in must on benghazi and when we look at what the children enough whether its a healthy diet or more exercise or proper work materials on which costs a lot of money to tough to get there are so many factors that determine every day life in class one that you cant even describe it in words to smile for the song. Can ave should you can and im fine if i know parents who dont send their children to the schools at all they group together and send their children to a school farther away. Where they even asked the schools to open separate classes for their groups of children to class and to me this is all social segregation. To me. Social
segregation in this context is the spatial separation of rich and poor on what happens when those on top and those down below drift further and further apart economists and social scientists all over the world are looking for answers and investigating the consequences of inequality. One of them is ballin based Educational Research marcella held beach in a recent study he discovered that in germany the rich and poor increasingly keep to themselves and hardly ever meet. Our study looked at Seventy Three cities especially in terms of social segregation and we concluded that social segregation has actually increased in all but six or seven of them. One example is berlin unemployment and Child Poverty are decreasing in the north of noise. Whereas almost two thirds of the people in the vises eat long tower blocks
get help from the stands. In the whole area the a forty divides the city of s. And north of the motorway seventeen percent of adults are on social welfare whereas south of the a forty the figure is only seven percent. Of business and in many cities in germany we see these pockets in certain neighborhoods where seventy to eighty percent of the children live off benefits and for the schools this means a concentration of the Social Problems that go with that if users of the Education System has to struggle with this every day mrs billing systems are the talk of snyder came from. Not only our rich and paul meeting last unless its also becoming increasingly likely that children with and without immigrant backgrounds will go to separate schools this is an experiment involving two schools in essence in orange
t. Shirts an Elementary School in a far more affluent southern part of the city. And in blue t. Shirts children from a school in the poorer north of essen the children have to ask each other a single question from the pupils from s. And north ask each other are you a foreigner. Mom mom. Studies show the children growing up amongst many poor people or immigrants will most probably underachieved. New can and does exclaim googly can precisely tell which children will have which chances be it me can we can work out the probabilities and i would know exactly where to send a social education worker or a good teacher if i had one she can get it so in particular when you look at children who move or who are randomly offered a chance to move to
a better new. Abroad through an Affordable Housing program they end up doing far better than the children who didnt have that Opportunity Showing directly but this cant just be about differences in ability or about dreams. Germany aims to provide education that Doesnt Depend On parents wealth the state uses taxpayers money to ensure that all children go to good Daycare Centers and good schools it also offers opportunities to those who have few but what if the state doesnt stick to that. Christophe bring up a millionaire and father feels he has a duty. As many would say if youre from a good home and the Education Policy is substandard your parents can help with that if you have a bad home but a good school then the school can lessen the impact of the bad home but its failed everywhere weve got parents who dont care and dont get their act together at an
Education Policy with the doors wide open to the chaos we see today. The entrepreneur is on his way to the last thing haunts foundation for disadvantaged children it supports around two thousand children in twenty two can. Go in and wants to see whats become of the money they donated and to initiate new projects. Theyre not so much that i was full of it here for example everything was full of concrete so we had a concrete ripped out and created a place where children like to spend time with the news and dont hit their heads on the hard surfaces. And if you have to Connotates One project at a time paying for tutoring dental braces and Sports Fields and all of it in addition to running his business. On his own could see you can do charitable work and get your homework done. You know. Im kind of im feet out of the small end for theater will be built here for me itll be a dream come true. This is a. Mystery to me but this is awful sometimes you feel like sitting on the floor and just playing with oh you have to be careful in the job i do but you cant just sit there and play citizens is enough. Because you know youre our real heroes thank you. For this thing im so its for who needs the most time Financial Resources and support from soft children and that is that you cant save a poor old person although you can alleviate the circumstances they live in but with a young person or a child you can still set the course devise mr long shot. And i sponsored this
sports field for One Hundred Thousand Euros many children hang around technology in shifts at the Youth Welfare office and cant be filmed one much so its fun to play here its working out its fun it was. Done for goals from the Childrens HomeHalf Way House to dons for the event as a thank you letters which will include. Annoyed folks like my god. I dont know how gunfights could i just have everyones attention for a second. If i can do that i want to tell you some Important Information then from us this field is here that we created it because we believe in you children by ok and well do everything in our power to make your play time as much fun as other childrens play time we believe in you and will always be here to do these kinds of things ok. And i believe here i. Mean. If it becomes clear in a society that the richer people have much better opportunities than the poor and it also affects those in between the middle classes if they can no longer rely on the state to watch for opportunities to more children no matter where their school or nursery is it has far reaching consequences then the pressure grows to do the best possible for the children. In germany a family with two children is middle class if they have a gross monthly income of between three and Five Thousand euros like the cost family from like sick. Thomas klaus picks up his Children Gustav and louisa from the nursery. A
big topic at the moment is which school gustaf should go to. The missions even the kids and we would like you and your child to join us for preschool in the period from december to february or offering your child a weekly Preschool Lesson was on so we can start school really start thats cool isnt it the school. Year coming to you you can also come with us and it says only your child but you are our child to. The children can grow up in comfort thanks to Thomass John The Engineer work seventy five minutes bike ride away from home. They can afford an apartment in a good location. But its been clear for some months now that his Company Wants to save money and that entire plants are under threat. Possibly his as
well. So there we are we all thought we were part of the big operation you let some lawyer tells us we are to do my see a huge risk that will be left standing here empty handed and then well have lost and if were just ripped out of here without any control over it can then were really facing total defeat here in my busy schedule tuesday. As chairman of the leipsic plans Works CouncilThomas Clouse travels to the Siemens Headquarters in munich where the managers want to announce their savings plans. Its an end to the Rumors Everything In Black And White jumped right up to them to be high up to children and i also have plans for the future and they are largely based on the future with my good job at siemens on this i know and now its all Up In The Air when that future is no longer there then im a shaky ground you know its a bit like the road to the slaughterhouse its
a busy. Emotional. Where does the middle class fear of sliding down the Social Ladder come from for a long time the german middle class always believed that their prosperity would only increase but all that is about to change. And it has something to do with global development. Economist bronco milan of it has examined the consequences of globalization and number crunching large amounts of data on it his conclusion peoples income has risen but not uniformly. Or when we look at globalization and we are when we say about globalization we are really talking about the period of the last twenty five to thirty years and we have two large groups of people who you can say are the winners
of globalization the first Group Already belong to the rich one percent of the world and they are getting richer and richer. Particular interest of the middle classes in asia especially in india and china where the income of two billion people has grown strongly they other winners of globalization unlike the lower middle classes of the u. S. And the industrialized countries of Europe Income is also stagnating in germany. The group that you can say are lower there is although they have not really lost in real terrorism but certainly they have not gained very much or a globalization are people from the lower parts of the Income Distribution in the rich countries so its actually lower middle class of germany the United States or japan or france and they have incomes today that they had like twenty years ago. We managed to pull two billion people in india and china out of Poverty House this
is an incredibly positive development pulls it out of the. Same time its true that the lower middle classes whether in mannheim or michigan or middle class or havent got a lot out of it in the last twenty years because when i speak up if you type in essence on the show they conclude most see in concrete terms it means that if europe fails to link globalization with principles of Social Justice there is a long term risk of a rupture between globalization and the lower strata of the population. Just because were. Back in munich Thomas Clouse knows now for sure that his plant is slated for closure if the management gets its way parts of the business will probably also be relocated to areas where production is a lot cheaper. In god none of us in the who no matter how long the situation lasts there will come a time when i wont be working
a kilometer away from our apartment is i income and this is what i want have the income and security i have now from this year and then ill have to take a look at what ill be able to afford with marked ill also be back on the job market and that wont be easy im well aware of that and there will be considerable up peoples which ill give you when i was young for example the from inbetweeners the Family Budget will no longer cover the flat we have now. The Housing Market in leipzig is very competitive as in all german metropolitan regions people are moving to the city center here Real Estate Investors smell high returns rents of risen by twenty five percent in the last five years affordable three to four room apartment soundtrack. If they have to move thomas class his
family would probably have to relocate to the cheaper edge of town. Ted my place construction done here is in the luxury segment its like everywhere isnt it you know the situation in the big cities and i think were on exactly the same sort of spiral here. And truly course that would be attractive but given our Current Situation i need to give that much thought to one common staff. And former. Priest often a is also building rental apartments here he says they are affordable two rooms for Seven Hundred euros excluding services. Thats twelve year olds a square meter. So while its new to me its not the most expensive its not the classiest but it says something that has style quality
meaning and saw. Im very proud of it because id like to live here myself in one. Event and we want to become the v. W. Of real estate so we need to step on the gas. I mean its also impresses his children they get asked about him at school. You know is going to class mates say things like. Is that the one from the c. G. Group if you can and you drive up in from the playground and theyre watching you and they google c. G. Group and say do you know what your father does. Suddenly my son comes home and says daddy is this what you do thats the kind of thing that gives you a little bit of pleasure all of a sudden hes interested and its a mixture of pride respect and a bit of sadness because i also know that the time i spent here is sometimes at the expense of the family i think. Youre going out in the basement of the old barn and postal Bank Building which kind his company is currently renovating. She doesnt want to. Spend furnishing company fits out apartments including ones built by ha ha spent. The condos want to shield grandchildren from their luxuries lifestyle as much as they can. Thats being. Thats why we decided to send them to Boarding School there among their peers there. And they dont get whats going on at home every day. They dont have to see the events we go to we go out or what we look like when we
dress up for a ball or something. I mean. At Boarding School there are rules and all the children are treated the same. Here in berlin not. All the children of the tsunami there are children who have rich parents or poor parents in spearfish no one and theres a lot of tension among the children about what they have that the others dont know how to master anthony sometime i picked up my middle daughter from confirmation class and suddenly she hid in the front foot well. And i my perspective when i asked her what she was doing she said. The other children can see me sitting in this car. Those are the problems they have to deal with this and that. Was in the clark. Campaign as if thats what it was because i know there are a lot of situations where they have it easier but there are also situations where they have to compromise. Because. There are
a lot. Of. Its important to tomas on cotton cost that they and their children can stay exactly where they are. Numbers dont miss it so theres a very good Social Environment here as soon as there are the typical groups here where you think theres that child even have a chance at all the home the parental and Social Environment all the exert a Strong Influence on them. And i get to see my friends from kindergarten back in school and surely you know none. His friends will go to the same school as him and he knows where it is that hes already thinking about who will be in his class we have to do everything to keep it this way. The more uncertain the future the more
important the childrens opportunities become when the middle classes fear for their jobs they also fear relegation at Stanford University the Downward Trend has already been confirmed by figures economist raj jetty has evaluated how income has changed over generations he describes a trend that is discernible not only in the u. S. But also in germany ninety two percent of children born in one Nine Hundred Forty earn more than their parents did but then if you look at how thats a volved over time you see a pattern that has come to be known as the fading American Dream where that steadily falls over time such that if you look at kids who are turning thirty today kids born in the middle of the one Nine Hundred Eighty s. Only fifty percent of them are earning more than their parents did and in particular theyre going to likely to be the globalization if they dont have high levels of education because one of the benefits of
a higher level of education makes individuals more flexible more able to move from one job to another because education is maybe not the only means but its certainly the primary means by which people can improve their own lot in life and pursue those goals that they have. The promise that the next generation will be better off as always being counted the german identity and modest Central European variant of the American Dream but if that promise is broken it has consequences. Parents will try to maximize their own childrens opportunities in life the struggle for status begins with the choice of Elementary School. Marcus costello is a nurse at a hospital in baltimore he has a five year old son louis who He Doesnt Want On Camera Lewis will be going to
school in autumn. Costello is afraid that his son will not receive proper support at a Public School so he has registered him at a Private School a Waldorf School at the moment. At the moment he is so far ahead that he can already read and write and so want to control the Public Schools would probably concentrate on the worst in the class first or the down time you have in school was a decisive factor for me. As well as the different Social Environment as you could be in. A number or heard cost out himself went to a Public School run down buildings and big classes with the teachers standing at the front he wants to spare his son that but it doesnt come cheap. Charts are not written by tough theres a Monthly Contribution to ducted as a percentage of your salary let the highest contribution is Five Hundred Fifty Euros a month. Or neuter and then theres a building fee thats Three Thousand two hundred euros for the entire school
generation are told from for another the costs for lunch and supervision from the north of two bridge ones cost for each other similar to but for answers from. The Fucking Shite District in bulk on more than one in five inhabitants here have a Migration Background and back to shite is home to most of the citys unemployed people. Right in the middle of it is the vedas surely. Because costello has registered his son here its a walled all school which are private Alternative Schools like most schools privileges all secular they are largely financed with tax money because all children can go here at least in theory. Kasten franca is a teacher them she guides interested parents through the campus. Of a board. Is like class and youre doing great math im going to have to spell come back again at the end of the year and see how they found out. That. There is one teacher here for every ten children there are only thirty four pupils in each year in the neighboring Public School there are twice as many most of the time the children are divided into two processors. Thats great bella now you can start with the file. Which id like to introduce me and mocha. You are all. Such as not so once this is of course the attraction for all the students a real highlight the idea is to give our city kids an experience of what nature is. Not the worst enemy and where does our breakfast come from not from the supermarket. Theres a School Garden a School Circus a theater stage a sculptors workshop a canteen and music clubs wasnt consistent for you was it is instruments are important for their early musical education is virtually want everyone to experience the success of creating sound. And come. Down on top. Of the proportion of Migrant Children children with a migrant background is relatively low here so thats something we dont like at all but its obviously because they think its a Private School we cant afford it. Thats come on mars. We have two groups who come here and one is a big turkish family its like a clan thats branched out more and more and so we get the cousins of the cousins
who have already been here and. By chance of the hundreds if its like that of a cousy india cuisine their cuisine down on. This issue as a moot point i know its all about Word Of Mouth the second our children here with an African Heritage it on time the. Tory backgrounds that we have children from here all but there are only two or three children per class not more not yet. Not unused. To randomly selected School Classes one from a Walled Off School in town or in purple t. Shirts and one from a Comprehensive School in Cologne Skulk district in white. And the question to everyone do you speak another language at home other than german. Plant do you sometimes help your parents to translate into german. Bund segregation is just getting worse. So would you target both the total number of Private Schools and the number of private Elementary Schools have gone up a lot recently. In fact the number of private students has increased by thirty percent in the last twenty years. The increase has been especially noticeable in Elementary Schools here the number of Private Schools has quadrupled. In the Computer Dash because your parents willing to pay for it and do nothing to counter it and the. Also there are schools that need these high school she or think they need them to provide
a good education and most importantly we have an administration that neither has the situation under control nor wants to control it. On average the state covers two thirds of the costs of Private Schools most of the rest is paid by the parents this is how the Public School administration saves Money Research is estimated could be as much as two point Four Billion Euros a year since these Private Schools operate placing Public Schools the state has to ensure there are affordable geminis basic law states the private Alternative Schools might only exist if everyone can afford them. To her because transmission include because its the current State Of Affairs is not compatible with the basic law and the main problem here is that the german states which should be monitoring the basic law do next to nothing the put a stop to these discrepancies. These a value dont truly. A new issue of schools as well as other independently
sponsored schools boast that they are good schools and many of them are. Untrue they have an educational principle that successful so why dont they take it over into the Public School system and thats what im wondering this is made up i checked. The state is supposed to ensure that good opportunities for children do not depend on their Parents Money because that often doesnt happen others take on part of the responsibility such as the patrons of the laughing Hearts Foundation charity god lynn where Christoph Connor is also the evenings host. I slept for four hours but i have enough energy for ten days theres a lot at stake today we have to collect money for the children were really motivated. Because few children in cannes have been invited and
stand for the rich and glamorous. About and senator for health care and equality is here. Its nice to see all you Beautiful People and youre doing something good im going to thank you so much for that you see i thank. The patron naseer she doesnt have a say in what happens with a detonation money but at least she has climbed on a side that both committed to saving children from going down dangerous parts in life its just to me the girls end up on the street thats how far it goes it tears my heart apart that cannot happen this time. Yet good look at known from a childrens talent show sings for the crowds. Its an event supported by the tax package. We see here this is
a sword thats yes you know donations are tax deductible wonderful absence and so i end the state pays half and we pay the other half i do and i have to. Say that i have to do a little heidi klum here from germanys next top model. Girl we have to do something with your outfits. Because you sing about a president who would like to make you a present for tonights an evening dress. I. Thank you i. Thank you thank thank. You. Its been different i absolutely dont think we should be orienting ourselves around the slower and weaker members of society but what i am quite sure of is that it will be
joe. By how we did the strong performers i used to deal with the fact that there are lower performers and people who struggle in society like children or people who have fallen into poverty thats how well be judged to be intimacy then. What does someone who can afford anything do. Who doesnt want more money but more influence does Wealth Health and political participation possibly even more than is good for democracy. The seamans employees and making photo greetings cards for them managers. Will see that their decisions affect people. Now and right now we feel powerless. Meanwhile kristoff going to is still fighting to stay globally competitive. And for that their investors also need your support in the future so who really has the
power. To say they have the power of god you. Enter the Conflict Zone with tim sebastian. Ill be challenging those in power asking tough questions demanding the same. As conflicts intensify ill be meeting with keep players on the ground in the senses of. Cutting through the rhetoric holding the powerful to account for facts the Conflict Zone. Conflict the Conflict Zone with two intervention it spawns d w ws. Boy. This is g. W. News laudrup from berlin to bring in our correspondent Ophelia Harms or really she joins us from Rio De Janeiro we are here to find out what happened with music of a correspondent summed up its just not and we do have some of Breaking News thats coming into us now a good job of the first close or a b. M. W. News thank you for joining us. Germany state by state. The most colorful. The long list. Of the most traditional. Find it all at any time. Check in with a web special. Take a Tour Of Germany State By state on g. W. Dot com