Berlin rich and Berlin poor

After some drizzle in the morning, the sun invited for a walk outside. I took the bus 204 to Ku'damm, changed into bus N19 and drove up the famous street to Adenauerplatz. It's fun to stroll around here, all those lovely streets and small shops, including a few very good 2nd hand at Droysenstraße.
No need to buy anything, my newly sifted through wardrobes are full to the brim, but it was nice to have a look all the same.
Then along Ku'damm from Lehniner Platz and the famous theater Schaubühne eastwards along the posh and very expensive flagstores of Gucci, Maxmara, you name it, they got it. New clubs are opening up galore, so night life comes back to this western magistrale as well.
At Gedächtniskirche around 7 p.m., the soup kitchen was surrounded by hundreds of poor, homeless people, mostly men. Only a few meters away from the rich at the Ku'damm shopping center.
There's more than 20 per cent of unemployment in Berlin, tenthousands of homeless in the streets, you find beggars everywhere, in the s-trains, in front of the shopping malls. Children are suffering the most. It's a shame. Some organisations and churches try to help, but society doesn't seem to care.
Tauentzien and KaDeWe were attracting me, to have a look at the special decorations and offers for the birthday, but my feet were killing me by then, walking around for three hours. So I called it a day and went home to salmon and pumpernickel. Quite different from the soup out of plastic bowls at Gedächtniskirche...