Paid in beer: Amsterdam's alcoholic street cleaners to be paid in beer and smokes
- 9 years ago
In a controversial move sure to require some Dutch courage, a scheme in the Netherlands is putting Amsterdam's drunks to work cleaning the city's streets - and paying them in beer.
The plan, named the rainbow Foundation Project after the name of the non-profit organization behind it, is designed to occupy some 20 hardcore boozehounds blamed for fighting public drunkenness and unseemly behavior toward women.
Partially funded with public money, the Foundation corralled the out of work men into street-cleaning jobs, paid with five beers a day, rolling tobacco and 10 euro. The allowance: two beers at the beginning of the 9 a.m. shift, another two at lunch and one for the road when they clock of at 3.30.
Many politicians in including in the famously progressive city, including Fatima Elatik, district mayor of eastern Amsterdam, a muslim, are firmly behind the project they say keeps nuisance alcoholics doing something useful and provides jobs to a bunch of bored guys a job.
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The plan, named the rainbow Foundation Project after the name of the non-profit organization behind it, is designed to occupy some 20 hardcore boozehounds blamed for fighting public drunkenness and unseemly behavior toward women.
Partially funded with public money, the Foundation corralled the out of work men into street-cleaning jobs, paid with five beers a day, rolling tobacco and 10 euro. The allowance: two beers at the beginning of the 9 a.m. shift, another two at lunch and one for the road when they clock of at 3.30.
Many politicians in including in the famously progressive city, including Fatima Elatik, district mayor of eastern Amsterdam, a muslim, are firmly behind the project they say keeps nuisance alcoholics doing something useful and provides jobs to a bunch of bored guys a job.
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