It's a hard knock life

After the participants Tuesday night were presented a reflective speech by David Whitby, who is CEO at Rambøll Whitby Bird, they could grab large portions of welldeserved food from the buffet to recharge their batteries after a long and educational day. And even though they did their best to eat it all, we still had loads of food afterwards so we decided to donate it to Maendenes Hjem which is a shelter for homeless men, and Reden who help prostitutes, many of them addicts or foreigners, to get a break from their hard day to day life.

Elizabeth, Ida Maria and I took the van down to Vesterbro to deliver the food. First stop was Mændenes Hjem, and when we arrived a guy was outside shooting up heroin as we walked in the door. The working people there also suggested that we should the lock up the car not to risk anything, so Elisabeth stayed in the car to protect it. A guy tried to help carry the food inside, but as we already had taken in what was meant for them, I told him so. This made him react quite strongly and he told me to fuck off explaining he only wanted to help. These men are obviously stressed by life. As we drove away, Elisabeth told that one of the guys outside was picking things up from the pavement and eating it, so they probably needed the food badly. At Reden it seemed a lot more cosy and the clientele was friendly.

After this experience it was nice to join the rest of the participants in the student's bar for a beer.