we talked began the struggle for freedom. should proceed courage or no good but was going to go no telephone call for almost 10 years younger than the throne we have for dollars didn't surprise me i saw it coming 10 years before what's your number one. what does it take to change the course of history. raising the curtain starts september 30th on d w. we've often short stories of change for me because inspiring the people around them to be the change they want to see in the world be made a difference for the better for the everybody lives of people and to be an bought but the only coin you know we'll dig deeper into how movements come together and

why big change occurs when the power is in the hands of the people i'm somewhat of a coming to you from mumbai in india more and more googling gets i'm moving out the religious and moving into cities sustaining life on agriculture is becoming difficult with every passing day especially if you live in the hotshot egypt of eastern but remember what mahatma gandhi said the soul of india lies in its religious and in order to transform india it's important to transform the bandages and local collectable farmers from 15 villages in the region is trying to bring this top to life by empowering the farmers to solve their problems head on. that. this is the district i'll be in the mouth about artesian off maharashtra it's known to most as one of the vostro it affected regions. in india battling a pity me

a water crisis as well as struggling with the highest number of farmers who say. that the administratively gin of partly is the most affected but the lowest irrigation rates in the country the average in a gated area in india is 40 percent violent early it's a mere 1.72 percent it's almost impossible to make a living from agriculture many people here are dispirited and indisposition turn to alcohol. but this was bali situation about 3 years ago today the global poli initiative put 15 villages in its forward has managed to read out its story.

but it's only when they open up on that idea was the brainchild of my own gandhi the founder of the initiator was supported by the strength and willpower of all the members of the 15 villages with a collective population of more than 30000. for . the last 3 years have witnessed the revival of 70 kilometers of the river that flows through the reason the building of bonn 62 farm ponds 52 czech dams and watershed structures all in a bid to ensure that not one drop of water in the region goes to waste. it was not just my own gandhi but the villagers very involved. we collected 4 lakhs

and we did it without forcing anyone to contribute whatever they could before we collected villagers contributed to starting with 10 rupees and some even gave in 1000 there was not a single house that did not contribute even if their regular nestlé are living in the city and not residing in the village this is how we broadened and deepened the papa nasty river that flows through our religious life and it is according. to. the villagers willingly contributed to become active participants as the last state holders in the development of their villages. there are 3 basic reason why we took this 15 villages one is we wanted to create more models we thought that if we were able to take more religious than we can make more models then that can be a model for replication dog and they used to say that religion should be

self-sufficient so one village cannot be self-sufficient so which is why we took 15 villages and when i went to the villages i realised that villages are like multiple organ failure if you are going to hardly were pulled over if you work only were the long haul it away so if you want to really have an impact. then your daughter got all the body parts of the same diet. the eat you're. keeping in mind the severity of the region one of the primary cause of the global bodily initiator was to create other opportunities to make a living these alternatives. to lies only on agriculture and farming when also bringing in extra income into their pockets during a good year of harvest. i

made the us start when i started to make my family members were concerned i asked them if i could continue to do this in addition to my daily farm book they said ok so i took time out to do this i now make the chutneys in the morning or evening i going to the farm at 10 am and come back at 6 30 pm now i do it as an event i find time to time the sound of it and those are the sort of but it's 6. x. . 6 . religious looks forward to these sessions every day with fellow members of a set of tell food today they are making ground not me. i'd like. to write these are then marketed by global curly amongst friends families and

corporate houses in neighboring cities. due to orders a man can fetch them an additional $3000.00 rupees which is about $38.00 euros. 50. while the men are also struggling the women are struggling that much more to go there to look after the family so if you give them a source often called i think it helps that family or to him but all and most importantly the woman like some saving to get that for the children for their education for family so i'm voting woman has got to be the most important thing. is a.

development of these villages have played a profound role in this transformational journey and depression and alcoholism have taken over the region and what seemed like an age of hopelessness it was the woman who led from the front joining donkeys to lentulus campaign against the seen across bodies religious. not to one of the hundreds of legal shops across these 15 village is off but only remain. trauma region making headlines for the largest number of families who sides and a climate of utter doom only is to be seen as

a role model in self-sufficiency and self-reliance. a local one of the. marley has are going to come out of the change in the mindset of the people here. when you need it to be whatever differences aside about equality can still show whether the whatever different the party and i once this was not about where you now do what i like yes i quite a. lot of republicans. are going to do a. little bit about what i would. like. a little. harder here and there have been a lot of areas that is based on politics based on cost based on religion and now we

see each other as human beings we don't care if he has a land on what religion he belongs to none of these discriminations exist you know we live in harmony and because of that we can now see social and cultural progress in our village. coming up in the night when i have a vote in the bahamas to live on with. my. often you only need one person to take the initiative and help more and more people understand the big have to come forward and stand up together to bring about lasting change this is how movements are born and mindsets of changed. just over a year ago gratitude demonstrated alone in front of the swedish parliament she

wasn't alone for long today her protest movement to stop climate change is called friday's for a future and has gone global it's an impassioned call to politicians to strive for a carbon free future. and that's something that's only possible with renewable energy the swiss adventurer and visionary doubts kept showed the enormous potential energy by making the impossible possible aircraft are currently only powered by kerosene which destroyed the environment wanted to change that an aircraft powered solely by the sun by 2016 hits circum navigated the world in it. how it to the people that's what indian scientists and activists vandana shiva stands for she fights against corporations that want to genetically modify and monopolize scenes she works to protect the seeds of over 1000 crops by saving them

in banks and making them available to follows it's an initiative that protects biodiversity as well as people's health and livelihoods. afford to walk instant germany has sparked off an inspiring movement to fight rampant plastic pollution around the world $322000000.00 tonnes of plastic is produced and consumed every year of this $12000000.00 is in germany alone stephen whorf is trying to bring people together to reverse this. getting closer to his goals stephanie halasz has been paddling for 4 weeks now from the western german city of corpulence on the rhine to the capital berlin in the northeast of the country. farmers even or even the greatest thing and this was a trip of 750 kilometers it was to come up against your limits when you think you'll never make it then you get

a 2nd wind and then you do it because this is not my. geminis rivers look so clean but 7 years ago stefan started collecting garbage on his kayaking toes. going over to mist as that's precisely the problem. in rivers in asia you see it immediately because there's so much of. the fault here it's not so visible because you've got some over here and some over there so we have to hunt it down. but after 6 kilometers we've typically collected 500 kilograms. he started out doing the collecting on his own it make an arrangement of the garbage from the rivers photograph it and put it on display it's the photo designer's way of making the invisible waste plain for all to see. up on 40 of them are i took a photograph that shows a kayaker from above paddling on garbage this is the average amount of garbage from

one kilometer of river in germany and not in asia and we have to work to reduce that because germany has a lot of kilometers of rivers trumpet. in total around 7300 kilometers and staff and horses only traveled a fraction of them so far. alongside exhibitions he also organizes regular cleanup events 7 cities are taking part in this one like oberhausen. on a tributary of the rhine. you have to look closely i pull out pieces of plastic all over the place they look just like the stones my boats already full up . he's joined by new volunteers at every new stretch of mother yes it's i was here around 60 cleena opposite on the water and the riverbank

. their life just for me because i think it makes total sense to not just collect waste from the rivers but also from the landscape around them. and i stop i think it's important to realize that this is not just happening in the caribbean or wherever be aware that it starts here with us i'm saying this. after just 2 hours they've gathered around 2000 liters of garbage last year steffen horse and other kayak has lifted around 30000 liters of garbage from the water up and congo. 4 years ago he did a tour on the rhine from southwest in germany all the way to the north sea. it's and there's a sort of that we've been a nonprofit organization since 2016 after our tour back then it was like an avalanche so many people got in touch send e-mails asking where they could help out . your pattern or i couldn't handle it all on my own. thank

goodness i'm no longer a lone warrior that more and more people are joining i'm really happy. not quite mystified. stephanie halasz needs as many fellow campaigners as he can get because that's plenty of work to do but he's happy to have come this much closer to his goal of clean water ways. a german nonprofit building group is doing something unique for business to officials to travel to eastern european countries like moldova to build who it's for the socially disadvantaged let's take a look at how this is bringing people together from different realities to work for the common good. it's 9 am at

a building site on the edge of the most open capital kishi now 20 young people have come from all over the world to build a house together. gordon voice to from the german nonprofit organization build and grow it explains that the builders are actually business professionals who are working to help poor families here. i often see the emptiness and enter dissatisfaction of my colleagues who devise strategies but never get to see the end result this project is completely different here the team works towards a common goal and changes lives and. voiced is 26 years old and works as a business consultant for an international company over the past year he's already built one house together with his colleagues and i mulled over in construction company. the company is called unicode walls and it specializes in the particularly energy efficient prefab building system the young firm is

a so-called social business 10 percent of their building projects and houses are for socially disadvantaged people anatole mallon see it is one of the founders. of the way we build. approximately we make the homes at least 75 percent more efficient a traditional home building. and yeah i think we can contribute to this climate. change initiatives and also protect our environment both words and even the. even if there were less import from other countries. most housing blocks in moldova were built during soviet times the insulation is poor or in some cases nonexistent in the winter time the heating costs eat up about a 3rd of a normal income those who manage to put a little money aside retrofit insulation to their apartments. but the most stuff

a family can't afford it they have 2 children their son adriaan is severely disabled and requires around the clock parental care. now the most of us will be moving into the new house that's currently being assembled by the business professionals their tiny apartment isn't really suited to a disabled person's needs. but the most of us won't only have a new home alexandru has an artist and designer will have a new job too he'll be working as a consultant for unica walls the most important building material for unocal walls houses is timber each panel consists of a wooden frame which is then filled with polystyrene sheets it's a plastic but it's unbeatable in terms of weight and density the panels are sealed with the fireproof and waterproof sheeting. the unico walls team passes on its expertise by holding regular lectures at moldova's technical university. that the university is training up the

engineers of tomorrow. and it's made energy supply and efficiency one of its core themes. it's day 3 on the construction site and the house is standing now it's time to fit the windows. the basic construction cost $50000.00 euros a part of that was financed by donations from the volunteer workers in 2 hours the keys will be handed over insulation waterproofing still have to be added to the roof everyone is going hammer and tongs to get it finished. when even in comes it's time for the big moment. the most of our family are given the keys to their new home. and it's time to celebrate. meanwhile the family can now inspect their new rooms.

the way. to see this in such a wonderful day i feel great really great some of the team want to take part in the next house building project too and make another family happy the. now in love about india's law the most region and engineer is bringing the local community together as part of a fascinating project to store water from the melting p.c.'s in a man leads to ice most villages here face an acute shortage of 4 going to the early summer months of april and may the ice to project is not only ensuring that the community has enough portable water but is also making sure that the geared up to back to climate change. this is not a remnant of

a melted glacier it's an artificial water reservoir the shape of which is reminiscent of a buddhist sanctuary a stupa made of ice the idea was conceived by sonam one chilcot an engineer from the dock in northwestern india is our ships which have a minimal surface area for the you so the sun cannot melt it as quickly as it does or does until a flat ice and therefore it melts slowly as the summer approaches and as it melts it gives its water to the farmers. ledecky is famous for the world's highest altitude cold desert in a region which gets only between 50 to 100 millimeters of rainfall annually the glaciers have been a life source for ages. they provide water for the cities. and for the farmers as well. but due to

climate change almost 20 percent of the glaciers in the area have been lost in the last 50 years. although the glaciers melt during summer time there is still water scarcity during certain months. what many people don't understand for farmers the challenge of water is only in the springtime it in me which is when they need to alter and which is when the glaciers are still not warm enough there so they don't melt. a wooden scaffold serves as a skeleton for the ice stupor in winter scarce melt water from the mountains is transported in underground pipes to lower regions. due to the difference in pressure it shoots up all by itself. and the minus 3 in the air will extract the heat in the water and then it falls down and freezes in the shape of

a form and the beauty is that you don't need machines are pumps or electricity or fuels or pollution none of that it's all gravity simple pipes it's summer now this stupa is 5 months old built by the inhabitants of a nearby village originally it held over 15000000 liters of water. about 50000 liters of milk daily. with the water flowing from the ice stupina the village in the valley has enough water available for the timely irrigation of the fields her. son in one choke is co-founder of the students' educational and cultural movement sec mo. because the young people will one day have a say in the fate of the region they need to know how the stupas help the farmers. however in the long run artificial glaciers are only

a makeshift solution. i stupors are not just. method of making water but it is also a message from the mountain people to the people in big cities of the world it is equally important that you in the big cities do everything to mitigate climate change and change your lifestyle so my message is that please live simply in the big cities of the world so that we in the mountains can simply live there are now about 25 i stupors in the region to create them it needed just a leap of the imagination what's needed now is change on a global scale. adobe reason to tackle climate change is truly a bunda for last 30 should and it wouldn't be impossible if people came together in whatever capacity began to make this happen i hope to be as episode has inspired

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