Name:     Marco Koberstein	Profession:
Relationship:	Country:     Berlin, Germany
Berliner Morganpost (translated by Alta Vista) Engine flaps and toy Workshop for handicapped ones at the border avenue has still capacities freely Of Heike box Nkongolo Neukoelln - " mostly the work does not make fun, sometimes also. But I would not know at all, what all day long I should do, if I could come not into the workshop ", say Marco Koberstein. The 32-Jaehrige operates for six years as an assistant at the union for juvenile welfare service (VfJ). The manufacturing plants at the border avenue 53, Bergiusstrasse 38 and the Koepenicker Erwin support road are something special: There is workshops for handicapped ones, in which altogether 430 humans operate. Who cannot keep up due to a mental and sometimes additionally physical handicap in the normal production process, obtain the labour office to a workshop for handicapped ones. "there are about 3500 workstations Berlin far in altogether eleven workshops ", say Wolfgang Schmidt, director/conductor of the VfJ. They operate as suppliers for the industry or manufacture - to small extent - own productions: Arts and crafts, toy, utensils from wood or, as at the border avenue, a metallic model of the TV tower, in which a ball-point pen is hidden. At the Alex these popular souvenirs are brought to the man.