Every Saturday, Alex Assali, a Syrian refugee hands out food to the homeless in Berlin as a way of saying thanks to the people who took him in.
A picture of Alex hard at work was posted by Berliner Tabea Bü on Facebook on Sunday morning.
Tabea wrote: ‘That’s Alex! A big shout out to him this morning. This man impresses me deeply.’
She goes on to describe how Alex had to leave family behind in Damascus, Syria, because of threats from ISIS. He left with nothing and travelled to Europe, via Lebanon, Cyprus, Egypt, Sudan and Libya, eventually setting up a new life in Germany.
Even though he has very little, she says, he gives away food to the homeless and those in need every Saturday in Berlin’s Alexanderplatz. As his sign says, to ‘give something back to the German people’.
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