home the red light district of hamburg. when we beat each other up for a sleeping bag it s a fight for survival and then there s a sadistic violence and contempt where people come in they don t treat you with dignity but like dirt. on. your sleeping bag or batter us something there might not be a tomorrow maybe someone will set me on fire beat me to death you end up living just for the here and now and trying to stay alive. yet dominic s got his high school diploma and volunteered in a clothing to pay for refugees people even worse off than him he sees this kind of thing all the time please wake up a sleeping homeless man and tell him to move on. this is also a question of dignity cool among us who sits down somewhere at lunchtime expects to
inviolable as part of our series it s my right to our next story looks at what dignity means to a german man who s been homeless for 10 years. going to the toilet taking a shower there normal things for everyone but how can you do this when you re. homeless it s not so simple. dominic clone lived on the streets for 10 years always on the move looking for something to eat somewhere to sleep he says it was a life without dignity. dominick was 16 when his mother threw him out the streets of st paoli became his
be approached by 3 police officers and you see how they put on gloves because they re disgusted that s no way for people to treat each other with. dominic is working to offer homeless people some dignity he s collecting donations to pay for a shower bath a bathroom on wheels with a dressing room full of clean clothes he learned what hygiene can means for person when he was living on the streets. body and soul go hand in hand at some point if you re physically dirty you turn inwards and feel in the end that you yourself are dirty has a lot to do with dignity and feelings of self-worth these are things that are lost on the streets i hope this bus can help taking showers to people who need them. dominic got his life in order he s 30 now and for the 1st time his existence is fairly secure he has work he has goals.