Every Saturday Alex Assali, a Syrian refuge living in Berlin, cooks large pots of food and shares it with the German homeless in his neighbourhood in an effort to give back to the country that gave him asylum. Huffington Post reports that he left Syria in 2007 without a passport and lived in Libya for several years before making Germany his home. It is difficult to fathom the kind of hardships he must have faced in recent years, which is what makes this story so powerful.
If you can bless another while going through your own storms, no matter how intense those storms are, that really says something about you as a person and the human heart in general.
His story is making its rounds across the internet after a picture of him (below) serving food was posted on social media. Apparently, he spends his own money doing this selfless work, despite being unable to find a steady job. He is currently living off of the German government, which is providing Syrian refugees 359 euros a month.
