do you really cancer. screening can we protect. we can make a difference. global. hello and welcome to the 77 per cent show for africa view with let's show and i'm excited to be whole thing by 77 percent for the 1st time. it's so great to have you with us this is what we have for you on today's show. making enough money to send its hold and corona time that's a real struggle for young africans in germany. we check out a new passion trend in kenya that's corona. and the 3rd stop in sierra leone

where we visit the country's only surfing club. we kick off our show in ghana in the capital to be precise like many other countries the current crisis has crippled ghana's economy and it's not just the national economy that's in trouble there are many who rely on their family members abroad to send them money but because these relatives have now lost their jobs they don't have anything to send back home we met a student who lives in a household of 10 people and who now has the find a way to make ends meet without money from abroad. in moments like this brights and his surprise come forward to not. by the last couple of months have been hard writes families facing a financial crisis with us parents moved to new york so they could make enough money to support their children in the crowd. usually be sent home $500.00 u.s.

dollars a month but right now become sending anything. the 21 year old student talks to his parents regularly over the phone. rang the last time the sentimental was in march before the long. and these dots money to buy food stuffs the free stuff for finish how to draw all the money from my account moats my bank account and my name obama in the wallet leaving only a minimum balance both of his parents were laid off from their jobs when new york went into lockdown put in a huge breading on bright i was the eldest son he's responsible for the rest of the family the lack of money from his parents has had some hard manny's usefully sentimental phone bills to be made he said none of my siblings used everest. many got me enzyme the same tight spots right now according to the world bank last

year living abroad sent home nearly 3 and a half 1000000000 u.s. dollars since his parents stopped working brighteyes how to fall back on the family business the small eatery it is merely run by his and who lives with bright and his siblings mother who in a virus has had a device stating impact even on this business. run on my gut feeling and by the i'm for it but before corona business was brisk with. from morning to evening they could easily be between 90 to 100 customers but since the pandemic huge the business has slowed down now we hardly get 10 customers while yet the. brightest in the final year of university study in public administration his siblings are in school and often need to use the internet but it's becoming difficult to afford high d'etat cost alongside school and university fees.

and need and want to drop out of school. was a pretty high fees among my siblings. and i was the reason that this increase is going to be shut down because in the taking a lot of the proceeds. i would hope and pray that. this fundamental decisive that covered. rights from anything comes together during the time from. which you receive from the moment a man. leftovers from the families of the rights mom is particularly missed during these family gatherings remains empty but as much as he misses them right knows the family needs his mom and dad to stay abroad so they can start sending money again he doesn't know how long the family can keep going like this if its parents don't resume work. so we just heard how

difficult it is for some families to get by without remittances from their relatives abroad but let's take a look at the other side of the coin the people who really want to send money back home but right now they just can't because the current outbreak has affected them too some have lost their jobs and they still have to put food on the table and pay rent our reporter chris and more met some young africans in the german capital berlin and they talked about the dilemma they are facing every day making ends meet in germany and supporting their loved ones back home let's hear what they had to say. hello everybody the 77 percent is back in bilin and it is a beautiful spring day where i'm standing now there would be people revealing beautiful spring where the but such is the scenario with acronis restrictions that a place like this is priced out but we're having the conversation to danny about

how coronavirus has impacted our lives and specifically the diaspora community living in germany right now i'm going to start off with my buddy slim slim just how have you been impacted from a personal level houses gone into your life well currently you can hardly find a job and yes i'm not working at the moment so. it's about people's house will and how those hustles have been killed by covance but i'm going to come over to you eric eric you are a working professional you're in the gardening space so just tell us about the situation you find yourself in you still get to do your gardening you still get to earn your pain but talk to us about the unique position that you find yourself in right now. to in so many people don't walk by example or my my friends from my homeland where i'm from the whole area is working with me because they're always what i run from this. has. got those for because it works i don't have to focus very well now run from. was teach me some finger in the we have

a to go quickly torch about this situation right right and i just want to talk to sam right now because eric staal able to send money over back home you've not been employed at the point are you still having to has it out for people back oh yeah you know all week we've gone from a community society and we we have to support our. close members of the family my mom my my my sisters or our you got us over there working on knowledge they don't. they still need that support and the hard to find a way so this conversation is bringing in that word about remittances the money that erikson so the money that that seems talk about has been sitting home how important is that and can you give us more insight into that yeah we can 1st of all look at the general picture we have like $48000000000.00 u.s. dollars sent in remittances just to sub-saharan africa alone and 29000 so that is

more than official development aid much as foreign direct investment. and on average like on my ground will spend 15 percent of his awnings to send back home and often it supports like 60 percent of the household in africa so you can imagine it's direct it's a very direct economic impact because of the pressure to send the money back home sometimes they're not very honest about the struggle that you actually go through to send that exact money here and so that will be something i would like to throw in i think that would be nice if there was an opening up of the family discourse of africa pharmacies basically what she's saying is they won't believe you even if you tell them to me i have tried it several times i don't believe you did you are lying they think you are hiding something you think because of being as that conversation it is happening nobody believes it jim also just bringing back

you into the conversation or so this is the position that we find ourselves and i'm sure it's not unique to city to eric and to dorothy what do you reckon we should be doing and what should perhaps governments like the german government know about our hustle and the diaspora and how they can help us we have to establish systems well where we can. unify our like the energy to financial incomes and put a little thing aside and this is things that we know actually since since africa has a lot of systems you know that everybody just just calculated and put a small part. on the site you know for community reasons but you know i want to push back on that because you know that's bound to raise issues guys i mean do you really realistically think that that's going to be something that's going to work and you are you disagreeing so i'm just i mean you i mean is it really going to work as a physician all of us putting money into one pot and hoping we can all be satisfied with how that money is going to be used i'll tell you the truth when it comes to money friendship goes over people or something sometimes they're looking for their

own interests and we come from different cultures you see you skeptical ok so bring back in so exactly this is why we really really really need change of mind you know because in the end it's also it's not different from what other societies are doing you know and for other societies working out they're getting really healthy through this i mean you know just. if they want to get together they're not embassies have to work more. because if you try to reach out to the kind in embassy the legend and turns on him and you don't even know that you are in berlin that's a that's what we start from but she's she i don't know if that was your initial idea jamal she's throwing it back to the officials i see because by the time introducing embassies you're talking government but isn't that going against what he's saying is you saying as a community are you including the politicians and that of course of course because i mean but we cannot rely on them you mean we cannot rely on them because they are

government they are people i know that so yeah i know but i mean you already started with the missing point you know and i think that's i have i don't know i have had a lot of experiences. in the embassies where we have been going in and trying to bring things forward but it just took so much time on the people. take time to time for what i was one of their peers because of the german bureaucratic nature of the way things are done the embassies tend to follow the same suit ok so you can imagine if they learned of the german woman you. have to wait until you know where do we know you want to be very interesting and i want to come back here because here you are you find yourself in this country right you have been in a position where you've worked you've studied going through what you're going through has to get out trying to get a job all of that. it's easy to go through here or would you prefer to have made been going through this back at home what i see as

a being or saying be those of money are going to africa but remember most of the money going home either in the corrupt systems or it's by the going to is a sense that from europe so in other words you're telling me you're going with the money is going right so it goes back to cons and comes back and you're going to hang out here in germany where the money comes back to what you say in the sense that's rethought our health care system we have yes these are this would be way better because you can have a good doctor to have a look at you that doesn't mean that we don't have good doctors are the resources we have right now limited so here we are we having this conversation has been great having you along but what we have learned as a diaspora communities we need to come together because something like the coronavirus happens and like some of the people on the panel today you find yourself in a very precarious position it's been great having your company looking forward to engaging with you on social media we of course the debate continues.

thanks to everyone who joined that lively debate and of course we want to hear your thoughts on this topic so please send us your comments on facebook now the corona crisis is still the big topic in the world and every day we hear reports of death job losses and uncertainty but it's not all bad news some people i don't think the pandemic to get in touch with their creative side for example have you heard all the corona has file well here it is probably worn by these kenyan girls let's ask i'll is so i catching that it sparked interest photography dawn will fund and it even inspired him to do an entire photo series let's check it out. don wilson is a photographer from nairobi during the course in 1000 pandemic he stumbled upon something. very unique the corona hostile since then it has because 5 rich topic.

something no growth something about north of the. north of burning to anywhere to bear a president marble it tumbled it took it upon herself to spread awareness about the pandemic through a simple has tile. with a corona has style we would like to tell people to keep distance to wear masks wherever they go and to wash their hands regularly do sanitizes to protect themselves not only did it turn by design they has died in the shape of the virus she also used colored for it to represent the car less of the virus itself. shattering. i told my stylist to incorporate the actual coronavirus image in the hairstyle of big. so the pink color represents the protein layer the marine is the fatty layer and the zigzag is the crown of the art that. you stay in your.

schools in kenya have been closed during the outbreak so a tumble makes sure her daughters understand the meaning behind it has time and the importance of at hearing 2 measures to contact the pandemic i have been less of a group and that i like it because it shows that corner is so real so we should take it seriously. marvel hopes to continue her newfound talent as a has time list even after the pandemic is she's also thankful for dawn wilson's help in spreading the message of her hairstyle or are now. the coronavirus have given me a new talent it has also made me well known i didn't expect that i used to look down on myself but now i'm even on television and i often get phone calls from people asking how the style came about. document in my. hastert has been done wilson's highlight of the year and he hopes

his pictures will give his audience a bit of joy in times of uncertainty. i wonder if that half hour will work with my hair too all right let's see now head to toe what's one up to the capital gang were on one of the very 1st military pilots in the boats went to defense force captain comet so. getting there wasn't always easy for her and now she has made it her mission to inspire other young students to spread their wings and learn how to fly this is her uplifting story. in the life of. a she has played a big role heavy village near the capsule gaborone was destroyed to accommodate airport expansion but from the ruins but similar went on to conquer the skies is one of its monospaced military pilots.

come back here again. and leave them on the tiles but we spent here with my family looking after cattle going to school before it was then a part of me that i can just leave behind. a grunt a lot but similar to leave the home instead to meet medics in gaborone she then joined a training program for the 1st female credits to become military pilots if one korea had taken off after serving 10 years in the air force the 35 year old decided to help other young wanna to achieve their dreams at an airfield near gobbler on she takes listeners on utah her foundation dare to dream exposes young people to the evolution industry. wants this to leave the dream of flying commercial. real. estate i think it means freedom is completely. means that there is the low wall out there there are so many possibilities of anything in the war.

on the airfield we also need to restore waka when one of that seamless fist mentions both met at a military camp where walker when i lived with his parents but see most encouragement go team does pretty swings. to me here i was out to madrid. when i finished my high school and i. aspired to be a lot so i kept pushing and she mentored me so that i become a pilot today when it is one of the youngest commercial pilots in botswana he success motivated but seem to leave the military sit up a foundation and help more youngsters dear to dream is based in a vision hub. here at sema and his team trains school classes from across puts one at 1st glance skills may seem to have little to do with flight but the focus is on

an important element of. coding and robotics. or you will become close didn't interpret us and problem solvers that's why you should learn coding that's why we want you guys to then how to code so that we can come up with solutions. today the young boys and girls must build a miniature airplane and program the motor in sensors to go along to run or to normalcy last year or 2 dream trained over 2000 pupils. there might not be a very huge manufacturing of robotics or have you done by twee want to prepare this young people for the war so that they can be competitive and be able to work with others around the world who have this opportunity to. captain puts his big plans to one sports want to to win the international lego robotics challenge with teams of young people across the world compete against each other and your team looks

well on its way. let's talk sports now what's your favorite sport that football nets will work out in the gym well in sierra leone the latest popular sport is a 3rd thing the west african country has faced a lot a civil war and a ball up and damage and poverty but nothing can take away the beautiful beaches. with the wife and swaying palm trees and perfect way and the one thing about to collab but i like about surfing in sierra leone the girls are riding the waves to. fury beach a perfect beach for surfing the waves break close to the shore and there are no dangerous currents and the water is warm just 2 hours drive south of sierra leone's capital freetown period beach is especially good for beginners surface you can find sierra leone's. to berate beach.

donald alex macaulay is in the water every day as one of the 3 founders of the period beach surf club he knows how good surfing useful the salt. was and more still. when. you can think about north you need to talk to these plants it will mean if you have something on their mind set you're not think about indefinitely because like it's made people choice on the vyvyan life but surfer group munt is scarce and expensive in sierra leone. even the wax which gives the surface but to grip on the board is hard to find so the team relies on donations and a good reason to give the boards some extra t.l.c. . but the beach surf club is more than just

a stack of surfboards. to kids. just to get. me off on board and suffering so if enough impact in my life i'm soft enough chain my whole life. yes. i think young ne. somebody from this is do we know molly to get on i can't one of his former surf mentees to come on the 22 year old now gives surfing listens herself and is the only woman on the team that's when it comes to technical skills. is right up there with her male colleagues is it. so telling the boys that's we are doing what they are doing so is a big challenge to us so we know one there will be this these guys will not compete

with the guys but like we are doing something what they are doing or do something like that at the same time i do skits yeah i want to see what the boys are doing yeah that is my challenge and that is my dream and. many children come to the surf club straight off to school since they are not enough surfboards they usually share with. many of the girls to come are teachers console him yes so dry runs are on the agenda for today. the children idolized to come are. on so be it let's listen. these one being one myself my buddy exercise and you live them to make us feel like. you're a beach is still a hidden gem among the surfing community here but to come barra has big plans for herself and for her country. oh wish to be like the best one in the competition so

i'll come back in my college to support my college me that's what the kids so how to send the song to we like to put self in the pool see that he won't and there's something in the mop of stuff in the war. when i'll go to the main goal is showing the girls they can see just as well as the boys. even if it takes a few broken boards. well i can but right now i kind of feel like trying it out myself. and that brings us for the end up today's show of thank you for much for joining us remember you can always get in touch with that's you can find me on twitter all you can send me an e-mail at to $77.00 at devalued of kong as one final trip we have been to a featuring country boy with their song that works in swahili and it means that you evoke great. the mosquito. when you.

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