As the EU continues to squabble over potential refugee quotas continues, Germany remains the leading voice in the campaign to over asylum to the hundreds of thousands of refugees crossing into Europe.

Many critics have suggested that refugees will be a drain on social welfare systems, but Syrian refugee Alex Assali is showing that generosity can be mutual.

Assali spends each Saturday evening distributing hot food to around 100 people sleeping rough in Berlin's Alexanderplatz.

It is a matter of "giving something back" to Germans, as he puts it, for their generosity.

Speaking to the Huffington Post, Assali says he fled Syria after posting criticisms of Bash Al-Assad online, leaving behind his family and friends.

A photo of Assali was posted on Facebook by his friend Tabea, where it has been shared over 2,000 times, and on Imgur, where over 2 million have viewed it.

In her post she writes that Assali "has lost everything; he had to leave his family back in Syria because people wanted to kill him... Even though he doesn't have a lot, he goes on the street and distributes food to the homeless.

"God bless him, he is a blessing for so many more,"she says.

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