but i'll need to reinforce the point is that i need news but doesn't have been he was not floating in know who's. a controversial leader whose success is beyond question. time. london tragedy starts people fish on t w. hello and a very warm welcome from johannesburg south africa i'm felicia n.s.p. with the latest edition of africa for you today we're off on another journey across the continent as well as making a side trip to germany and my colleague to eglin 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 over the world and said 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 discarded plastic bottles and signed. our community cares for recompose and dad 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 same health bill age of. women's cooperative has managed to cultivate one i would lines even though what is a challenge in the cell phone the secret of success was restoring on old well and installing a solar powered pump to run it with many doubt judgeable a job becoming autonomous and something rarely seeming rule communities in west africa they manage their own finances. with.

a meeting and. the women in this tiny cynical his village have joined forces to form of the interest savings and loan corporate once a week they get together and each one of them pays in what they can afford one stump in personal savings book the present two hundred for approximately thirty cents. i think the woman has been charged because it's not a sacrifice it's going to spend the money. any of the members can borrow money at short notice but not more than three times what they're paid in the women have agreed on the ten percent interest rates i was a banker 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 after 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 product means they can help support that man financially and the men in turn have become more understanding and tolerant 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 the good news but i don't know where to begin you would get the us n.g.o.s creates got the boring four years ago they invested almost to sell them here are getting together with the women average double from tension almost the size of two football fields with on us tomatoes but it happens they have your manual labor is performed by younger women the older ones are responsible for their end quote. you can only share the proceeds if you play an active role.

in what you're going to. 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 and residents from other villages come to us to buy vegetables. then come to that like . this is what it looks like outside the plantation road as he lies in this i have rigid water here you have to drill deep the biggest investment was a solar plant that provided the energy for the interrogation system and the guy says wind blown desert sand has to be cleaned off the planet.

the heart of the facility is the deep concrete rind where from here the water is pumped into the plantations six holding tanks. look we just we have restored the seventy meter deep well so that we don't want to feeds into it again they want to table is only seven meters down and the water quality is very good way to reduce what we get a book or diversion and there are tentative financial instruments the project is intended to help so the seed for this authentic will and a quality could develop meant that enjoy will move on in the years time. the women of the village and all self-sufficient the plantation yields 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 towards that feed talking points exactly. time and

the food quickly and fewer trees around the village. we need a lot less would be i used to spend homeless in the woods looking for firewood with the new stove this little bit of food several days seven zero for a lot of time. in the. free time sometimes they never had the cost time to do the things they enjoy. now roll homes like those ones are just an incentive go 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 such as 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. in nigeria plastic regularly clogs drainage systems. 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'm just a. big. i was here where yesterday and i. want to turn my truck going to use it as

a trash can train people. for justice for. mad also wants to train more bottle layers to build more houses like this one. you don't like them. if you are also doing your job you tell us about. visit our website or send us a tweet. hash tag do your best we share your stories. what an ingenious 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 drastic effects on the environment yes n.t.

other fishing has left more than three quarters of the fish species unique 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 vishk took took is arriving in nairobi with the fish delicacy that was never so freshly available here . it's brought a load of to lobby four hundred kilometers from lake victoria and. a new type of cooling box in the cargo hold makes it possible. for what we had. to be at your back kind of basket you would carry sometimes i would get punished. the fresh to lafayette comes from these fish cages in lake victoria. five years ago just off the island of fun gano brother and sister team gilbert and

michelle and 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 the point directly on ice. we want to make sure that less species waste it as it is 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 a coaching for fish and on broken cold chain stretching all the way from boat to consumer rights that. this way it's 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 for up to seven days so. this sense is that able to

detect when the box is open and when it's closed and send messages to us and it is until the temperature. both 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 m func are no 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. the sun is very abundant over here so what really makes sense is to be able to power the cauldron using using the sun and so we restart do i 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 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. those hoping to catch sight of the rare

reclusive animals have a good chance here in northeastern ghana near the border with ivory coast and picking a faster 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 especially important as cultural symbols for the wily and low b. tripes. the how cool 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 in stupid 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 their all. the cheery season has started up again but the roads leading to the area are bad and the journey is difficult. to a guy j.p. anyhow luna says batch prevents many tourists from making the trip thanks to the conservation initiative the number of pygmy hippos here is increased from two to almost forty the project has also been disturbed by the number of visitors who come . through interest and because. people all over the world and we receive visitors in our. power nine hundred every year so the number of people increase and because of that where. i work for my community and we get benefits from the and my community people are poor. visitors pay around six year aims for

a tool that's a week's wages for many people in ghana a large part of this income is divided among the villages 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 they've been a harvest and they have a deal they can sell and then use the proceeds to put more hives into the fence and also they get profit out of it they use their money to send children to school to buy clothes for the children

one of the local people who has benefited from the hippo protection an initiative it's a mile and a beauty. 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 british fluent when it comes to spoken and there was a pretty much attention to whatever residence would be our order to be adopted what we call good or quality lives the most goals. right now up to a lie is the haiku is 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 people media boats. caring for the environment can lead to success as we've just seen and gonna take action and do it now that student griffith earned by its 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 takes swift action to come back climate change. i'm. it isn't actually our job to protest for a better future it's the politicians job and 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 and i think it's important or nothing will happen to. me i've. in recent months tens of thousands of children of taken to the streets to protest in a range of countries including australia sweetened 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's 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 but it will be declared we want to show that we need change and that's why we're striking on fridays. 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. 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 because after fifty two zero. it's not a temporary face 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 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. the shores of money and 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 me one second time and getting the latest mobile phone those will be the day to test 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 namibian company sun cycles promotes it's based in the capital 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 sounds like goals 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 with this one. gave me the strength to do everything all the time. so for eat bikes are the rare exception on the maybe as roads my return banhart walter introduced them in twenty forty their social enterprise sun cycles is based on the converted shipping container in a backyard 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 the 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 a bush. see. 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 signing off as well but please check out our conference on our website on all social media and i'll be happy to have you tune in

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