steiermark.orf.at Foto Galina Toktalieva Die Wirtschaftskrise hinterlässt auch im Bereich der Sozialhilfe immer deutlichere Spuren. Laut der Halbjahresstatistik des Grazer Sozialamtes hat sich die Zahl der dauerhaften Bezieher im Vergleich zum Vorjahr verdoppelt. Sozial schwache Menschen bekommen die schwierige Wirtschaftssituation mittlerweile mit voller Härte zu spüren: Waren im ersten Halbjahr 2008 noch rund 960 Grazer [...]
Galina Toktalieva for die Wiener Nachrichten Jetzt_mit_Übersetzung Whenever I go to Main Square with idea to make good photo of a horse, the blinders – leather flaps of bridle to keep horse from seeing anything on both sides – abash me. They say horses need those blinders to drag carriage with tourists forward. They also [...]
Some time ago in group of Austrian unemployed I participated in anonymous psychological test on personal wishes and dreams. Living on allowance, people dream mainly about money. If to go to Amazon with idea to find most popular self-improvement books, it will be books how to become rich. It seems there is no sphere of [...]
Banality often contains concentration wisdom of folks. They say, it is not shameful to be poor. Poorest can obtain social security benefits. What is poverty in Austria, how it looks, tastes and smells? Apart from concept, I wanted to know this as personal experience. Being granted with work after five years of survival training in [...]