Good evening,


the social benefits of the state are intended to protect against poverty, but they are limited with good reason.

Many benefit recipients are happy that they get something in addition to the support from the public sector.

The idea of ​​distributing unsold food from the supermarkets to the needy has developed into a considerable network of food banks in recent years, but they are now struggling.

Because the supermarkets plan more precisely so that less is thrown away, while on the other hand the number of needy people is increasing, not least because of the influx of refugees from Ukraine.

The Rhein-Main-Zeitung reports on the needs of organizations that actually want to alleviate the needs of the needy.


Manfred Koehler

Head of department of the Rhein-Main editorial team of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

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The mayor of Frankfurt currently has needs of a completely different nature, and the public prosecutor's office is hot on his heels.

Now Peter Feldmann (SPD) announced last week that he only wanted to attend public appointments “with a sense of proportion” because of the indictment.

Now everyone is looking at where he can be seen and where not.

In any case, Feldmann took part on Tuesday in the traditional press tour of Frankfurt's Dippemess, which opens on Friday, but he didn't want to be photographed on a roller coaster or ghost train.

Instead, he got on a ride called "Circus, Circus".

Not entirely inappropriate either.

Colleague Daniel Meuren watched the somewhat tense mayor.

Most are horrified by the war in Ukraine, but not all.

A rift runs through some Russian families in the region, as our reporter Theresa Weiß reports.

And for the weekend, Putin's friends have even planned a demonstration in Frankfurt.

The CDU chairman Uwe Becker calls for a ban.

And in addition, the Ukrainian state orchestra called Kyiv Symphony Orchestra will go on a spontaneous tour of Germany and will also be a guest in Wiesbaden on April 28th +++ Darmstadt Central Station was closed for hours on Tuesday because a small safe was discovered in a bag and Worse fears +++ warns the police in Wetterau of a new method of trick theft: crooks spy out the secret number when withdrawing money from the machine, then claim to the bank customer that a note was stuck in the money shaft, and in the general confusion they steal it from him the check card.

I wish you a pleasant evening

Yours, Manfred Koehler

You can also read current reports from the region in Skyline-Blick, our live news blog for the Rhine-Main region, and on the Rhein-Main-Zeitung website at www.faz.net/rmz

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Highs around 16 degrees.

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