culture between here and there challenging. lead. to some business think it was worth it for me to come to germany. got my license to work as a swimming instructor. now our 2 children other dogs just rushed just to show. what's your story take part sharon on in for migrants dot. com. 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 big made a difference for the better for the everybody lives of people and for the and bob meant to do only coin you will dig deeper into how movements come together and why

big change occurs when the power is in the hands of the people i'm suddenly coming to you from mumbai in india more and more googling gives a movie 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 plants form india it's important to transform the villages 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. and. this is the district of b. in the mine ottawa dejan off maharashtra it's known to most as one of the vostro it affected regions in. in india battling a pity me

a water crisis as well as struggling with the highest number of pharma suicides in . the order 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 in desperation turn to alcohol. but this was bali situation about 3 years ago today the global pollie initiative but 15 villages in a sport has managed to read out its story. the way.

petroleum and they are on that idea was the brainchild of my own gun 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 region the building of bonn 62 farm ponds 52 check 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. 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 even gave in 1000 there was not a single house that did not contribute even if their regular nets were living in the city and not residing in the village this is how we broaden and deepen the papa nasheed river that flows through our really population that is a critical of. the villages willingly contributed to become active participants avalon stakeholders in the development of the 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 then we can make more models and that can be a model for replication dog and they used to say that villages should be

self-sufficient so one village cannot be self-sufficient so which is why we took 15 with it and when i went to the villages i realised that villages are like multiple organ failure if you are going to hardly were pulled out of a few water kollywood along the way so if you want to really have an impact. then you had to work on all the body parts of the standby. leak. keeping in mind the solidity of the region one of the primary cause of the global bully initiator was to create other opportunities to make a living these alternatives. to live only on agriculture and farming when also bringing in extra income into their pockets during a good year of harvest. i

mean there are start when i started to make the check myself 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 that 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 goes on that sort of but. it's. see. them from mum double lives looks forward to these sessions every day with fellow members of a sales telephone booth today they are making ground. i feel like. these are then marketed by global curly amongst friends families and corporate

houses in neighboring cities. due to clear orders a man can fetch them an additional $3000.00 rupees which is about $38.00 euros. while the men are also struggling the woman are struggling back once more to go there to look after the family so if you give them a source often called i think it helps that family. and most importantly the woman relate to what some saving to get that for the children for their education for a family so and voting woman has got to be the most important thing. is a. development

of these villages have played a profound draw in this transformational journey and depression and alcoholism has taken over the region in what seemed like an age of hopelessness it was the woman who led from the front joining dante's to lentulus campaign against a scene of a cross bunny's religious. not to one of the hundreds of legal shops across these 15 villages off but only remain. from a 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. global economy a local one of the 10 global marley has are are going to come out of the change in the mindset of the. money needed to build other than for instance a site about her legal store somebody and what they were doing for the party and i thought once this was done about you know you now do what i like yes i'm quite a. lot of republicans. anyway because mostly clear a little bit about who i was. in . one of like. a little. higher here than ever in a lot of reality based on politics based on cost based on religion now we see each

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

for long today her protest movement to stop climate change is called fridays 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 energies the swiss adventurer and visionary showed the enormous potential energy by making the impossible possible aircraft are currently only powered by kerosene which destroys the environment wanted to change that. powered soley by the sun by 2016 he'd circum navigated the world on 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 scene she works to protect the seeds of over 1000 crops by saving them

in banks and making them available to farmers it's an initiative that protects biodiversity as well as people's health and livelihoods. of 4 to walk just in 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 and stephen whorf is trying to bring people together to reverse this. getting closer to his gold stephanie halasz has been paddling for 4 weeks now from the western german city of kabul and from the rhine to the capital berlin and the north east of the country. the growth there farmers even are on 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 tildes. innovative. as that is 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 we've got some over here and some over there so we have to hunted down. but after 6 kilometers we've typically collected 500 kilograms. he started out doing the collecting on his own he'd 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 be 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. in total around 7300 kilometers and staff and horses only travelled 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. yeah. you have to look closely i pull out pieces of plastic all over the place to look just like the stones my boats already full up. he's joined by new volunteers at every new stretch. here around 60 cleena opposite on the water and the river bank. their life just

because i think it makes total sense to not just collect waste from the rivers but also from the landscape around them. my eyes. 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 you met up with congo. 4 years ago he didn't or on the rhine from southwest in germany all the way to the north sea. it's invisible so i told him 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 emails asking where they could help out from your pattern or i couldn't handle it all on my own. thank goodness i'm no

longer a lone warrior humans are more and more people are joining i'm really happy about that in a fortnight. 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 to this much closer to his goal of clean water waves. a german nonprofit building group is doing something unique for business professionals to travel to eastern european countries like moldova to build homes 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 mall to open capitol kishi now 20 young people have come from all over the world to build a house together. garden voice to from the german nonprofit organization build and grow explains that the builders are actually business professionals who are working to help poor families here. i often see the emptiness and inner 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 out. voice to work says a business consultant for an international company in the last year he's already built one house together with his colleagues and the most open 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. the way we build. approximately we make the homes at least 75 percent more efficient or traditional home building. and yeah i think we can contribute to this climate. change initiatives and also protect our environment our words and even the. even there were less imports from other countries. mostly housing blocks and 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 who is an artist and designer will have a new job too he'll be working as a consultant for unical walls the most important building material for unica 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. they unica walls team passes on its expertise by holding regular lectures at moldova's technical university. the university is training up the

engineers of tomorrow. and it's made energy supply and efficiency one of its core themes. of 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 evening 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. 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 to make another family happy the. now in love that 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 needs to ice most villages here facing a huge shortage of 4 going over the summer months of april and may the ice to power project is not only ensuring that the community has enough potable water but is also making sure the big you're 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 stupor made of ice the idea was conceived by sun i'm one chilcot an engineer from the dock in northwestern india is our ships which have 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 spring time it created me which is when they need to alter and which is when the glaciers are still not warm enough there so they don't mail. a wooden scaffold serves as a skeleton for the ice stupid 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. son i'm one chook is co-founder of the students educational and cultural movement 2nd. 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 needed just a leap of the imagination what's needed now is change on a global scale. a global vision to tackle climate change is truly a bomb the for last edition and it wouldn't be impossible if people came together in whatever capacity they can to make this happen i hope to be as episode has

inspired you to join the cause that will soon we'll be back next week with yet another apocryphal king show until then good bye.

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