In order to help the needy, the Shanti employees collected money among themselves. A handsome 1,000 euros were collected – a huge sum in a country where a normal worker earns 80-90 euros a month. When they wanted to give the cook an extra bonus because he is now already in the kitchen at 5 a.m. every morning to cook the food for the hungry, he refused indignantly: “I have it good here at Shanti, I get a good salary (it is 150 euros per month), my children can go to school here and if we get sick, you will take care of us – better give the money to the poor out there!