they will succeed in defining not succeed in taking people off the streets because we're tired of trying to show. taking the stand. is that matters to me. hello and welcome to the 77 per cent show for africa view on this 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 it home in corona time that's a real struggle for young africans in germany. we take out a new fashion trend in kenya that corona. and the 3rd stop in sierra

leone where we give the country the only answer and. we kick off our show in ghana in the capital to be precise like many other countries the corona crisis has crippled again as the economy and it's not just the national economy that's in trouble there are many going to 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 are now has the find a way to make ends meet without money from abroad. in moments like this bright said his severance can't afford to not. buy the last couple of months have been hard writes families facing a financial crisis with of his parents moved to new york so they could make enough

money to support their children in their crimes. usually send home $500.00 us dollars a month but right now we can't send anything but 21 year old students talks to his parents regularly over the 40. 9 last time the sentiment was in march before they logged on and he's down to money to buy food stuffs if he starts high finish i had to draw all the money from my account both my bank account and in my name obama in the white leaving only the 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 hit him hard in many ways usually sentimental phone bills to be him and he's another of my siblings interest.

many gunny enzyme the same type sports right now according to the world bank last year gun ians living abroad central merely 3 and a half 1000000000 u.s. dollars since his parents stopped working right has had to fall back on the family business the small eatery it is mainly run by his and who lives with bright and his siblings but i couldn't have virals as how did the staging impact even on this business. went on my gut feeling and ready for it but before corona business was brisk. from morning to evening they could easily be between 90 to 100 customers but since the pandemic hitch the business has slowed down now we hardly get 10 customers one of the. brightest in the final year of university studying public administration his siblings are in school and often need to use the internet but it's becoming difficult to afford a high b.

talk or alongside school on university fees. and if and when to drop out of school. it was a pretty high fees among my siblings. and i was the reason that this is going to be shut down because you needed to know a lot from the proceeds. i would hope and pray that. this fundamental decisive that governor. writes from and comes together during dinner time for the ladies from which i receive from him in. the leftovers from the families he writes mom is particularly missed during these family gatherings remains empty but as much as he misses them bright 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 this parents don't resume work soon.

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. the people who really want to send money back home but right now they just can't because the koran 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 the moon 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. had everybody of the 77 percent is back in berlin 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 prized out but we're having the conversation today about how coronavirus has impacted our lives as 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 it's. is 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 pay but talk to us about the unique position that you find yourself in right now how work to mean so many people don't walk by example my my friends from my homeland but i'm from there your whole area is working with me because they're always what i run from this look down. and the circuit

those rigs that we're going to have to focus very well in our run from. was teach me something and we have to go quickly to watch about this situation right right and i just want to talk to him right now because eric staal able to save money over back home you've not been employed at the point are you still having to has it out for people back home. you know all week we've gone from a community society and we have to support our. close members of the family my mom my my mercy sisters or our regardless of where they're working on origin they don't. they still need that support and the hard to find their way so this conversation is bringing in that word about remittances the money that erickson 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 to just to sub-saharan africa alone and $29000.00 so

that's is more than should development aid much less foreign direct investment. and on average like a migrant will spend 15 percent of his awnings to send back home and often that 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 from times and i'm very honest about the struggle that you actually go through to send that exact money yeah so that would be something i would like to throw in i think it would be nice if there was an opening up of the family discourse. in africa for me is basically what he's saying is they don't believe you even if you thought about what i mean i have tried it i've tried and they're wrong time i don't believe you did you are lying you 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 in i'm sure it's not unique to to to to eric and to dorsey what do you reckon we should be doing and what should perhaps governments like the german government know about our hazell as a diaspora and how they can help us we have to establish systems where well we can . unify or like the energy the 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 smaller part. out on the site you know for a community reasons but you know a lot of pushback 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 like that's going to work and yet you're disagreeing so i'm just i mean you i mean is it really going to work is that the solution 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 ok so you're 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 is working out there getting really healthy through this becoming you know just. seeing if we want to get together they're not embassies have to work more even if you try to reach out to the kind of embassy than one gentleman times an immigrant embassy and you don't even know that you even beilin that's a that's what's a start for office 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 because he's 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 yeah people i know it is 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 embassy as well have been going and trying to bring things forward but it just took so much time on the people. time going to what i want to observe here because of the german bureaucratic nature of the way things are done the embassies tend to follow the same ok so you can just belittle the journey i'm assuming so because you have to wait until you know where they will be possible to be very interesting am 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 when i see. the rows of money are going to africa but remember most of the money going home. in the corrupt systems or it's by the organizations that are 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. the health care system we have yes these are this would be way better because you can have. a doctor to look at you that doesn't mean that we don't have a good doctor but the resources we have right ali majid so here we are we having this conversation it's been great having you along but what we have learned as the diaspora community is we need to come together because something like the coronavirus happens and like some of the people who are not penalty day you find yourself in a very precarious position it's been great having your company looking forward to

engaging with you on social media 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 are using the pandemic to get in touch with their creative side for example have you heard of the corona has style well here it is probably worn by the of kenya and girls this s.l. is so i catching that it's sparked the interest of photography don wilson 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 coverage in 1000 pandemic he stumbled upon

something very unique because when i asked style since then it has because 5 rich topic. this is something to do you know growth something about norm has done and no one has done it in you have to bear a president to tumble 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 because not only did it turn the has time in the shape of the virus she also used colored for it to represent the car less of the virus itself going to be a. shadow and. i told my stylist to incorporate the actual coronavirus image in the hairstyle akamai your pink protein so the pink color represents the protein layer the marine is the fatty layer and the zigzag is

the crown gone beyond that to stay in the if you stay in. don't know what all schools in kenya have been close to during the outbreak so a tumble makes sure our daughters understand the meaning behind the has and the importance of at hearing 2 measures to contact the pandemic i've been less of a group in that i like it because it shows that corner is so real so we should take it seriously. and. marvel hopes to continue her newfound talent as a has time list even after the pandemic is she is also thankful for dawn wilson's help in spreading the message of hester are on there a minute but the coronavirus has 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. the

commenting models has started has been done wilson's highlight of the year and he hopes his pictures will give his audience a bit of jai in times off i'm to tended to. i wonder if that will work with my hair too all right let's in our head the 2 what's one up to the capitol governor 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 live performance of it seem an avocation has played a big role her village near the capsule gaboon was destroyed to accommodate airport expansion but from the ruins but sumo in turn to conquer the skies is one of its finest 1st military pilots. come.

and and really for the moment the time that we spent here with my family looking after cattle going to school before it was than a part of me that i can just leave behind. a grant allowed put cement to leave the home instead to meet medics in gaborone she then joined a training program for the 1st female candidates to become military pilots if lanky area hit taken off after serving 10 years in the air force the 35 year olds decided to help other young to achieve their dreams at an airfield near kabul room she takes learners on a tour her foundation dare to dream exposes young people to the admission industry . wants others to live the dream of flying. around with you and. i think it means freedom is means completeness it means that these

a long while out there there are so many possibilities of being anything in the way . on the airfield we also need to restore our car when one of but simmons 1st mentions both met at a military camp where we lived with his parents but simmons encouraged me to go team to spread his wings. to me. when i finished my high school and asked. carrying aspired to be a lot so i kept pushing and she mentored me become a pilot today when it is one of the youngest commercial pilots in botswana is success motivated but seem to leave the military sit up her 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. you will become close didn't interpret and problem solvers that's why you should learn coding that's why we want you guessed 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 i.v.'s in baton but we want to prepare 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 she wants puts one of to win the international legal 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 net will work out in the gym well in farrelly on the latest popular sport 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 wave and the one thing in particular that i like about surfing in sierra leone the girls are riding the waves to. period beach a perfect beach for surfing the waves break close to the shore and they are no dangerous currents and the water is warm just 2 hours drive south of sierra leone's capital freetown period is especially good for beginners service you can find

sierra leone supposed. to be a great beach so. donald mccauley is in the water every day as one of the 3 founders of the period beach surf club he knows how good the surfing is for the salt. so if you take morse to the pool when. you can think about north you need to. plant it when if you have something on your mind set you're not thinking about it indefinitely because like it's made people. on the 5 you know life but surf equipment 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 caves. just to get. off on board and so forth so if enough impact in my life i'm soft enough change my whole life. yes. i think nothing. somebody told this is the way we normally to get on our kids one of his former surf mentees to come on the 22 year old now gives surfing the skins herself and is the only woman on the team but 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 were like we are. what they are doing 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 and since they are not enough surfboards they usually share one. many of the girls to come are teachers concert with me and so dry runs are on the agenda for today. the children idolize to come are. on so be it listen so. these little 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 mara has big plans for herself and for her country. oh we still be like the best one in the competition so

i'll come back in my college to support my college week that's what the kids so our able to send. to we like to put self in the pool see that he won't and there's something in the mop up in the war. for now though he's 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 3rd 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 us you can find me on twitter all you can send me an e-mail at to $77.00 at devalued kong as one final trip that we have not been to featuring country boy with their song. which is plainly and it means that you look great. point.

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