#retraining
A new project in #Germany is retraining prostitutes to become care workers for elderly people.
The state of North Rhine-Westphalia is using €1m (£0.7m; $1.2m) of local and European Union money to try to get #sex trade workers off the street and into care homes.
Heinz Oberlach, from Germany’s Federal Labour Agency, said that using #prostitutes as care workers is “very logical,” as the nursing home sector is seriously understaffed and has some 6400 vacancies nationwide—despite a national unemployment rate of 12% in Germany. Reasons for the shortage include a recent clampdown on Eastern Europeans working illegally as care workers and the reluctance of Germans to take on the work.
