only a promise to a son was made son only in the jungle and returned to the concrete and glass drunk but. the result reversed culture shock. a fucking realize how strange artificial is really connected to life. the prize winning documentary something from the forest starts people first on t w . here. hello and a very warm welcome from johannesburg south africa i'm felicia n.s.p. with the latest edition of. today we're off on another journey across the continent as well as making a side trip to germany and my colleague to eggman joins us from nigeria hello there

felicia indeed an exciting shows ahead of us but first of all i like to greet of us all the over the world and said big thank you for all your responses to our program now here's what we have lined up today. how to build houses with this god of marketing bathrooms and. our community cares for red peoples and the ecosystem in ghana. and how the bison i'm becoming popular i mean. today's journey starts in west africa as we head to senegal in the so help village of the i would geology woman's cooperative has none it's a cult of it once i would lines even though what is the challenge in this hell's own secret of success was restoring an old well i mean stalling a solar powered pump to run it with mining that would judge a village up becoming autonomous and something rarely seen in rural communities in

west africa they manage their own finances. a meeting and. the women in this tiny senegalese village have joined forces to form of the interest of things and on corporate to once a week they get together and each one of them pays in what they can afford one stump impossible savings book the present two hundred for approximately thirty cents. a woman has a child the consequence not a sacrifice is going to spend the money. any of the members can borrow money a truck not us but not more than three times what they have paid in the women have agreed on the ten percent interest rates i was a man now we have our own bank and can decide ourselves who gets

a loan and at what interest rate many of us women have already been defeated in the past this wasn't possible to ensure that the middle of. the seventies corporatists has tons traditional gender roles in the village upside down but now even the village approves. i'm well i would know that women are great the poor that means they can help support that man financially and the men in turn have become more understanding and taller and here in the country it's actually not customary that women contribute to the family's livelihood of well that's why i always encourage all of the women here to participate in the project the good in you but i don't know who did you get when you were to the us enjoy it creates got the boring four years ago they invested almost thirty thousand who are getting together with the women average double from tension almost the size of two football fields with on us tomatoes that happens

they have your manual is performed by younger women the older ones are responsible for the head coach. you can only share in the proceeds if you play hockey. you're going to. say something i don't know how to put on your hands other vegetables when we needed vegetables we used to work to other villages and buy them there now it's completely the other way around we have more than enough and residents from other villages come to us to buy vegetables. them going to bed like . this is what it looks like outside the plantation. road is he lives in this i have rigid water here you have to drill deep the biggest investment was a small a plant that provided the energy for the interrogation system and the devices and wind blown desert sand has to be cleaned off the planet.

the heart of the facility is the deep concrete ground where from here the water is pumped into the plantations six holding tanks. so we just we have restored the seventy meter deep well so that we don't want to feeds into it again the water table is only seven meters down and the water quality is very good it would reduce or to visit a book or diversion and there are tentative financial instruments the project is intended to help so the seed for this is tied up and according to development the enjoy will move on in the years time. the women of the village are not self-sufficient their plantation years enough produce to fundamentally change life indo d.g. to grow a field to benefit every single day with the help of create she has constructed to

place toves that feeds her cooking pots exactly. that says time and the food costs quickly and fewer trees are cut are on the village. was. picking up on and we need a lot less would have to spend how as in the woods looking for firewood with the news told this little bit of food here last for several days i serve an awful lot of time with alex and i want to. make. sure. we have enough free time sometimes they never had in the past time to do. things they enjoy. now are all homes like those ones we've just seen in santa go off and built in a traditional fashion using clay as the main material well can you imagine that

this caught it plastic bottles can be used as a main construction material even for a big such a house us well some people here in nigeria are using that let's have a look at a construction site near the federal capital territory. nigeria's house of bottles. this is africa's largest house built from plastic bottles to date over two hundred thousand of them have gone into the structure near the capital of. the nigeria plastic regularly clogs drainage systems. madge wanted to make something useful with the bottles. they're filled with sand and stabilised with nylon cord. before being stocked up and cemented in place with clay or mortar. the houses don't absorb any heat so

they don't need air conditioning. i disagree with. the big house here where yes to see what hit them but you are going to use it as a fishbone action people. approaching industries from. high ahmed also wants to train more bottle layers to build more houses like this one. do you like that. if you are also doing your tell us about. our website or send us a tweet. cash tag doing your bit we share your story. what i mean gee years idea i want to what it's like to live in a bottle house well plastic waste is certainly of curse throughout africa it's even played a big part in degrading lake victoria in kenya more than thirty million people live

in victoria shores and that also has a drastic effect on the environment yes anti other fishing has left more than three quarters of the fish species unique to africa's largest inland body of water under threat of extinction but new kinds of fish farms could help turn the situation around. this fish took is arriving in nairobi with the fish delicacy that was never so freshly available here. it's brought a load of four hundred kilometers from lake victoria and. new type of cooling box in the cargo hold makes it possible. for what we had. to react use the basket kind of basket you could carry sometimes i would get finished. the fresh to lafayette comes from these fish cages in lake victoria. five

years ago just off the island of. brother and sister team gilbert and michelle began to farm fish. they were the first to implement cage aquaculture here now they're harvesting some two hundred tons of fish annually which is put directly on ice. we want to make sure that less species listed as it's obvious that right now almost sixty percent forty sixty percent of all fish that is quote is lost because if so what we're doing is we're creating new coaching for fish and unbroken cold chain stretching all the way from boat to consumer all right so that. this way it's easy it's going to go to. lakeview fisheries uses the latest technology. like this transportable cooler made by a finnish startup. it has

a cooling mechanism which is patented we're using our technology partners. that keeps the box cool. so. the sense is that able to detect when the box is open and when it's closed and send messages to the temple the whole time so at any time we're very aware of the freshness of the fish. that the lobby are hatched and grown. in ponds on functional island before being transferred to their floating cages. most of the people on m func are no rely on fishing for their livelihood. during the one nine hundred eighty s. lake victoria perch exports were booming. sustainability wasn't a widely known concept back then and the lake was fished clean.

michelle and gilbert turn a profit with their farms and want to expand their operation. with support from germany's g.r.i.z. development agency they're building a new sustainably operating refrigerated warehouse to freeze their fish and. the sun is very abundant over here so what really makes sense is to be able to power down using using the sun and so we really start to have not be affected by the politicians the embryos want to turn their fish farm into africa's biggest and they're hoping to win the people of them from going over to fish farming. will stay for a moment at the water's edge but this time in west africa a century around the black hole to revel in northwestern gonna is the only natural habitat for pygmy hippos in that country a couple of years ago there were only two left but conservation efforts by the local community have helped them bounce back today activists count almost forty

hippos. for those hoping to catch sight of the red reclusive animals have a good chance here in northeast and going to near the border with ivory coast bikini. you'll often see the head spalding in the waters of the black belt a river. pygmy hippos of you just totems by people in the area there especially important as cultural symbols for the wild and low be tripes. apt to lie the high school is one of the chief ranges of the west community hippo sanctuary he recalls how local village chiefs founded the conservation program twenty years ago . the reason for protecting the people and meant is to keep the the poor life and with turn it into

a corner so that children in the next generation. the here poor and the. poor also use the. opportunity for the while. the tourist season has started up again but the roads leading to the area are bad and the journey is difficult. so a guide to be anyhow you know says that prevents many tourists from making the trip thanks to the conservation initiatives the number of pygmy hippos here is increased from two to almost forty the project has also been boosted by the number of visitors who come. interest in because. people all over the world and we receive visitors reindeer in. nine hundred every year so the numbers of people increase and because of that where

we are green i work for my community and we get benefits from the project and my community people are going to put. this it is pay around six euros for a tool that's a week's wages for many people in ghana a large part of this income is divided among the villagers in the protected area. as a result these women. girls no longer have to walk all the way to the river to fetch water all the residential areas now have their own wells co financed by the century . the center also runs an alternative livelihood project in beekeeping the beehives attended by local people sales of the honey will provide additional income for five communities here. so what is going to happen as a harvest and they have a deal they can sell and then use the proceeds to put more hives

into the fence and also get profit out of that they use their money to send the children to school to buy clothes for the children one of the local people who has benefited from the hippo protection initiative is some i left a beauty. his teacher training was paid for by donations. for the twenty four year old has been back here for several years and now teaches children in one of the villages in the protected area. i discreetly of all our mess up there to chop up the language teaching them because most of them are very fluent when it comes to spoken and there was a pretty much attention to whatever residence would be ordered be adopted. to list them as dolls. right now up to a lie it's a haiku it's busy assigning his people to the new safari routes this century

success over the past decades has motivated neighboring communities to several villages further up the river now want to join the initiative to benefit from protecting me. caring for the environment can lead to success as we've just seen and gonna take action and do it now that's student message to world leaders the sixteen year old has been on school strike on fridays for months to fight for effective climate protection thousands of schoolkids and students from all over the world have joined her demonstrating outside parliament under their motto fridays for future instead of going to school germany students have joined them take a look. oh. it's

friday afternoon these teenagers should actually be at school the weather is cold and miserable but they're still gathering here in the centuries to prepare a protest. fourteen year old francisca vessel has been involved from the start she like the other peoples here wants to see the government take swift action to come back climate change. it isn't actually our job to protest for a better future it's the politicians they're the ones who should have been changing things long ago that's what they're getting paid for so it doesn't really make sense for us to go out on the street but i think it's important or nothing will happen sometime i mean. the ice. in recent months tens of thousands of children of taken to the streets to protest in a range of countries including australia sweeten belgium switzerland and now in germany the government here has committed to phase out coal by twenty thirty eight but

these young people want to see that happen by twenty thirty the action is known globally as school strikes a climate here it's called for the future just an excuse to skip school. not by stabbing i don't see it like that if i wanted to skip school i'd have better things to do than stand out here in the cold. for us to go on strike to show politicians that it's pointless to go to class if we have no future that's what it would be to collaborate what we want to show that we need change and that's why we're striking on friday is. that the digital generation is protesting on the streets rather than just using online means like petitions has come as a surprise to klaus her he's a prominent german research on youth and schooling. it's an x. and there are x. a stench all threats connected to the environmental issue that's why it plays such

a big role. anyone who's fourteen fifteen or sixteen years old today knows that in seventy years if things continue as they are existence on this planet will be difficult and that worries young people a lot just after fifty two zero. francisco it's not a temporary fact taking action to protect the environment has become a lifestyle choice for the family. they try to buy local have stopped flying and have even given up the car. they hope to reduce their carbon footprint. that might not be so we were all areas but cycling infrastructure and public transport make it simple here and. i think everyone should start fighting for their future now because it's also my future and the future of humanity on this planet this planet that will either be

destroyed or that we try to hold on to. the shores of money i'm incredibly proud of my daughter. that she doesn't spend her afternoons in shopping malls. but does something to make the world better something to preserve it so that it remains beautiful for my grandchildren and i'm really proud looking for. buying clothes from you was second time and getting the latest mobile phone those will be the daily tasks they encounter outside of friday's for future. reducing your carbon footprint is a one way to help fight climate change using electric bikes instead of cars can be a first step that's what an american company sun cycles promotes it's based on the capital event hook and as the name suggests the firm produces bicycles powered by the sun indeed felicia it's a very promising concept in

a country where the sun shines three hundred days out of three hundred sixty five days a year some psycho tales it's bikes with different uses with the aim of promoting sustainable and affordable mobility. denzel my job is to deliver medicine to pharmacies around the namibian capitals in talk he does one of the country's first bikes. his deliveries need to arrive at the pharmacies early in the morning this way he gets to avoid the traffic. so i used to struggle but this one. gave me this strange way. all the time. so for each bike saw the rare exception on the maybe as roads a return bend hardwell to introduce them in twenty forty their social enterprise sun cycles is based on the converted shipping container in

a back yard close to the city. some cycles not only manufacture the bikes made in the media but company also builds recharging stations powered by solar cells the bikes run on clean energy that's part of the concept so our main aim is to provide an alternative in a stable form of transport to specifically low income commuters but also private customers game gods health care workers kindergarten teachers anywhere where you know my bicycle is limited in its usefulness and way a car can be substituted. more than one hundred sun cycle bikes are already in use around the country including here at the sun umballa community conservancy the reserve is situated in the north east of namibia where the job a river forms a natural border to botswana the wildlife here not only attracts tourists but also bush meat hunters and ivory poaches for

a long time the rangers have to patrol the area on bikes with just one gear. thanks to donations they now have eight e-books which allow them to work far more efficiently. on a normal day the ranges cover up to twenty five kilometers of the bush. seen. by. the rangers wouldn't want to trade their bikes for a car the bikes may not be as strong as a four by four but they're much more agile they need to be recharged after every sixty kilometers. during the daytime we charge the car battery and in the evening we can take the

cable and charge the battery of the bicycle with the car battery so we can still charge the battery when it's dark. you know. the robust and simple design of the bikes is well suited to working in the bush and allows the rangers to do most repairs themselves. the vision is that high sales will allow the company to lower the bike price from about six hundred euros to three hundred fifty. the team are hoping that a crowd funding campaign will bring in the necessary capital to get the project off the ground while it may take some convincing to make commuters switch from car to bike the ranges of the conservancy have already been well and truly want to over. and that's it for today our journey across the african continent is over for this week for now it's good bye for me in johannesburg south africa and i'll see you next time thank you for leisure i'm finding off as well but please check out our

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