every journey begins with the first step and every language with the first word published in the book. nico is in germany to learn german and why not i'm with him it's simple online on your mobile and free south d w z e learning course nikos speak german meetings e. 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 all

of us all the over the world and say a 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 plastic bottles and sand. i welcome you to care for red pickles and the ecosystem in ghana. and i will be bikes and 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 georgi a women's cooperative has none it's a culture of it once i read lines even though what is a challenge in the sales on the secret of success was restoring on old well and installing a solar powered pump to run it with mining doubt judge a village are becoming autonomous and something rarely seen in rule communities in west africa they manage that own finances. with.

a meeting and. the women in this tiny senegalese feed which have joined forces to form of the interest savings and loan corporative once a week they get together and each one of them pays in what they can afford one stump in pessimist having spoke to present two hundred for approximately thirty cents. there was a woman who because it's not a sacrifice was going to spend the money assaf. any of the members can borrow money a truck not just but not more than three times what they're paid in the women have agreed on the ten percent interest rates i was home and 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 elder approves. i'm well a good one there women are great the poor that means they can help support that man financially and the men in turn have become more understanding and tolerance here in the country it's actually not customary that women contribute to the family's livelihood so that's why i always encourage all of the women here to participate in the project we're good here but i don't know where did you get in you would get the us enjoy creates good 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 you and tomatoes that they haven't they have your manual labor is performed by younger women the older ones are responsible for their hand called. you can only share the proceeds if you play hockey.

you're going to need. this i don't know how to vote only on the other vegetables when we needed vegetables we used to walk to other villages and buy them there now it's completely the other way around we have more than enough of it and residents from other villages come to our. to buy vegeta book for. them to read like. this is what it looks like outside the plantation. she lives in this i have rigid water here you have to drill deep the biggest investment was a small plant that provided the energy for the interrogation system and the dry season when von desert sun 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. ok we just we have restored the seventy meter deep when i saw that you don't want to feeds into it again they want to table is only seven meters down and the water quality is very good that you would reduce. visitor because division and the tentative financial instruments the project is intended to help so the seed for this is tenable and according to development the enjoy will move on in a year's time. the women of the village are now self-sufficient their plantation years enough produce to fundamentally change life indo d.g. for two graves feel the benefit every single day with the help of create she has constructed to place toves that feeds her cooking pots exactly. that saves time

and the food costs quickly and fewer trees are cut are on the village. it's. good if you're not going to we need a lot less would be i used to spend how i was in the woods looking for firewood with the news told this little bit of food here last for several days i save an awful lot of time with the galaxy. women know how free time sometimes they move a hot in the past time to do things they enjoy. nabo homes like those ones we've just seen in san diego often 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 make sense of how this 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 look it up i do so. because here where you

see what it doesn't matter i'm going to use it as a fishbone train people. on dusters for. also wants to train more bottle layers to build more houses like this one. you know like that. if you're also doing a european tell us about. our well. or send us a tweet. do you been sharing your story. what an ingenious idea i want to what it's like to live in a bottle house well plastic waste is certainly a 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 n.t.

other fishing has left more than three quarters of the fish species you need to africa's largest inland body of water and the threat of extinction but new kinds of fish farms could help turn the situation around. this vision took 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. a new type of cooling box in the cargo hold makes it possible. for what we had if you had given. you the basket kind of basket you would carry sometimes i would get credit for. 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

and began to farm fish. they were the first to implement cage aquaculture here and now they're harvesting some two hundred tons of fish annually which is a point directly on ice. we want to make sure that less species listed as right now almost sixty percent forty sixty percent of all fish that is quote. lost because. so what we're doing is we're creating new coaching for fish and on broken cold chain stretching all the way from boat to consumer rights that. this way it's it's great. 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 us and it isn't all the time to sort. the whole time so at any time we're very aware of the freshness of the fish. the to lobby our hatched and grown in ponds on the island before being transferred to their floating cages. most of the people on them fun condo rely on fishing for their livelihood. during the one nine hundred eighty s. in lake victoria perch exports were booming. sustainability wasn't a widely known concept back then and the lake was fished clean. michelle and gilbert m.b.o. 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 its design is very abundant over here so what really makes sense is to be able to power them using using the sun and so we start to have not been 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 the 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. one those hoping to catch sight of the rare

reclusive animals have a good chance here in northeastern ghana near the border with ivory coast from picking a fast you'll often see their heads bobbing in the waters of the black belt a river. pygmy hippos are viewed as totems by people in the area there is specially important as cultural symbols for the wallet and lo be tripes. after law is a 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. he pull and meant instead the poor life and with turn it into a corner so that children in the next generation or no apology he pool

and the. poor also use the. opportunity for deval. 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 says that prevents many tourists from making the trip thanks to the conservation initiative the number of pygmy hippos here is increased from two almost forty the project has also been boosted by the number of visitors who come. in creston because. people all over the world and we receive visitors randi in eight hundred nine hundred every year so the numbers increase and because of that where we are i went for my community and we get benefits from the get and my community people are put. visitors pay around six year age for a tool that's

a week's wage 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 and 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 is the 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 it 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 an initiative is some ability. his teacher training was paid for by donation. 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 just love all our mess up there to chop article out of english language teaching them because most of them are very fluent when it comes to speaking and there was a pretty much attention to whatever where students would be ordered be adopted. to list them as dolls. right now and july is the haiku it's busy assigning his people to the new safari routes the centering success over the last decades has motivated neighboring communities to several villages further up the river now want to join

the initiative to benefit from protecting pygmy oppose. 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 center of. 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 by 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 to. me. in recent months tens of thousands of children of taken to the streets to protest in a range of countries including australia sweden 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 no globally as school strikes

a climate here it's called friday the future just an excuse to skip school. when it's not 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 but if we need to vote 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 you since schooling. it's an x. and there are extra stensholt 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. for francisco it's not a temporary phase taking action to protect the environment has become a lifestyle choice for her family. they try to buy local have stopped flying and have even given up their car. they hope to reduce their carbon footprint. that might not be so easy in germany's rural 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. 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 of you for. buying clothes a new one second time and getting the latest mobile phone those will be the daily tests they encounter outside of friday's future. eat it raw. 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 namibian company sun cycles promotes it's based on the capsule vent 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 cycles. bikes with different uses with the aim of promoting sustainable

and affordable mobility. dense on my end is job is to deliver medicine to pharmacies around the namibian capitals in talk he does say i want one of the country's first. his deliveries need to arrive at the pharmacies early in the morning this way he gets to avoid traffic. so i used to struggle but this one. gave me the story. of the day. so for each bike saw the rare exception on the maybe as rhodes a return ben 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 namibia 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 and stable form of transport to specifically low income commuters but also private cast a mez game gods health care workers kindergarten teachers anywhere where normal 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 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. scene. like. 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 to do so with this 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. 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 lucia i'm finding off as well but please check out our content on our website on our social media and i'll be happy to have you tune in

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