they should ard which works in. our future depends on what happens here in one of the most fragile ecosystems on earth. northern lights life within the arctic circle starts december 21st on w. . this is day w news and these are our top stories germany will enter a tougher coronavirus lockdown starting on wednesday with schools and non-essential stores is set to close this comes amid a surge in deaths in recent weeks chance on the american appeal to germans to limit their social contacts in the run up to christmas. the united states has begun distributing millions of doses of crude 1000 vaccine inoculation of health care workers and nursing home residents with the biotech pfizer vaccine is expected to

begin on monday the number of corona virus deaths in the us is approaching 830-0000 the highest in the world's. u.k. and in unit go shares are to continue talks on their poster breck's a trade relationship beyond a sunday's deadline in a crisis called with british prime minister boris johnson and european commission president or so left on july and said it was important to quote go the extra mile i had to come back this is d.w. news from berlin follow us on twitter and instagram at c w news or visit our website studio you dot com. or.

i mean. desert mountain jungle. beach i'm in touch oh but that's all that combined is what our humax reporter discovered on the island of grand canary. we'll take you there later welcome to euro max this is what else we have coming up. the design and do some of those takes classic cars and transforms them into not all but it's got this added. to the delicious christmas by introducing gemini and beautiful. do you have i mean clue what this is well maybe people from the united states knows this is a christmas pickle many americans follow this german tradition of hiding seeing

a pickle in their christmas tree whoever finds it gets an extra gift this just one problem most germans have never heard about this custom you know like supports a haiti rawlinson sets off to solve this riddle of the christmas because. ah yes the christmas pickle a beloved in time honored german tradition at least that's what i was told. but i'm going berlin germany's biggest department store and i can't find a single one of these christmas trees where all the pink walls but luckily i brought my own. but let me back up where i come from in states many people think that all germans hang a single mystery in many american families follow this so-called german tradition so according to this tradition the 1st person to find the christmas pickle on the christmas tree gets an extra gift but to be honest i haven't seen or heard of

a single christmas pickle in germany since i've lived here so i'm going to ask some germans during their christmas shopping if they've heard of it. are you hanging christmas pickle on your christmas tree this year. that must be a tradition where it's not a german tradition. christmas card. is not my favorite vegetable music the christmas. no christmas pickle. wouldn't even have to explain it to santa in germany in fact 12016 survey found that 91 percent of germans had never heard of it. so if this tradition is in german where does it come from and how did it end up in the united states. with a little christmas magic i'm headed to the small german mountain villages. to explore that a bit more. if anyone knows the origin of a particular glass ornament it's the people of laos they've been blowing glass here

since 5097 and producing ornaments since the mid 19th century. glass. and it is the 4th generation to take over his family christmas ornament business. he hand makes and sells glass ornaments including the christmas pickle to buyers world. i. but actually he only learned about the tradition in recent years on a visit to california. i was asked to also you also make christmas pickles and i just laughed but then someone else saucily the same question and then a 3rd and i started wondering what is it with these christmas pickles and then someone explained that it's tradition in germany it's on a pickle on your christmas tree and that every american knows this i think oddly nobody in germany does. that made him curious so he came home to search through his grandfather's glass molds from the 1930 s. . not the that i found his gherkin with mold since then we've been producing these glass pickles. now he sells pickle ornaments to customers in places like japan

norway switzerland and of course the united states. but if you just learned about this tradition where did the story start well there are a handful of legends surrounding the origin of the christmas pickle. one says that a prison guard took pity on a starving german born soldier during the american civil war and allowed him to eat a single pickle with this act of kindness he was able to survive and began hanging a pickle on this tree each year. some say it was this man frank w. woolworth who needed a gimmick when he began importing ornaments from germany to the u.s. in 880 s. . the media need to ask someone who knows this christmas town the best so i'm eating laotian mayor nor but it's man at las park last winter. founded in 853 this is the oldest insisting glass in town mr mayor do you know the tradition of the christmas pickle as it's early are you not we were confused is that the christmas

pickle what's the point that's what we learned both abroad people are convinced the christmas pickle is an essential german christmas item. if they personally i think some clever marketing guy invented this. but since then has been making glass pickles simply because foreigners believe it's a local specialty of. ok so i still don't have an exact answer but there might still be hope i'm going to talk to gary a local who came across the pickle tradition in his research for a magazine and laotian glass. so what can you tell us about the history of the christmas pickle helped before so i did some research and found out that some families had a tradition of giving the person who found the. special christmas tree decoration on the tree the 1st to be more largest gifts on the supposed others as the good sense of the dots of the christmas pickle story originated by not square. so we may

never know exactly where this pickle tristen comes from but it certainly is a little bit of fun and maybe one day the germans will know what i'm talking about but until then i have an idea. we will see later in the show we'll have more festive reports but 1st we're off to england where we'll meet the creative caught his eye not andy tsongas he transforms classic cars into works of art which is shown at odds going to recent around the world and he's even been nominated for the turner prize mainly though he just went to church cuts. their heart on wheels. danny sunday is a big u.k. planes with existing models colors and shapes modifying the cars to achieve his

visit. and when the designer takes his maiden automotive art projects they tend to miss out on the roads of southern england he's living his dream. is your. base bringing a small group to market but i. saw you lovely it's the brits call the pale. i think it's all good all that code scope. i'd approach the top overall to get it all just to give just such a thrill because it is a baton goalball you. know because it's a cult. it's an amalgam i should have everything. and the saunders ambition is to build cars that have never been seen before he speers no effort nor expense about a true friend just 17 years building these call. these 7 fires and i was

going through this construction and you cannot do this in my wood with my passion. he started work on the tennis in 2003 it's based on a rare vintage 1937 cord say to. the contours are inspired by the shape of a drop of. most of his works are based on wrecked or derelict antique cars. like this 1940 pickup truck and the sanders took it apart and turned it into his custom designed metropolis car when he said work on a new piece of automotive art time becomes an important it's flying the cake you get out of creating this addictive it's not the all book but. you don't like it it's there is creation it doesn't matter how important a car is if the idea is important here. everything else is of no importance

saunders 1st fell in love with old cars as a teenager restoring them in his father's auto repair shop when he took this one out for a spin 184 media from around europe took notice of. annoying to 70 solid. custom i don't know why did it or did it because on you to tell you what i will said earlier ones will go on all day and they all call it's never gone until i finish the soon as often lost interest as soon as he completes one of the vehicles he sounds or actions that andy saunders through much attention again in 2006 with his flattest. and earned a mention in guinness world records in 2010 he is asked to take on so west ideas of cubism to a 6.2 seed beat and the media began calling him the banksia behind it would be accuse wish i could do because as quick as you can take when you're doing stuff.

the creation is easy and you're kind of rebelling against everything else i suppose that's where he started really i think it was the media the team. maybe because he was doing it just for fun. as in the way the oil for early. saunders injects sun and passion into his noble sculptures they've already been displayed in several galleries in 2001 a few of his car creations were even nominated for the u.k. church arts prime along to carry on creating things that completely got the ball up a remote more dog probably go another 200 calls in the saudi rescue but it needs to be paid well being if my dream of doing it is to get back to europe was already . of one thing we can be quite sure as far as andy saunders is concerned

his next car will be his best and most beautiful of all. travelling these days in times of the qur'an avice pandemic is quite problematic and will trip is something to dream about. not really very realistic however you can actually experienced something similar on the spanish island of gran canaria on the 3rd largest canary island you can find 14 different microclimate zones my colleague candy dividing felt like he was travelling the world without even leaving the island. gran canaria is the island of many places. there was quite a nice touch down on the rock and the area was the thing here is that every corner of the island was different sometimes it feels like it's

a hot. and others like the bahamas. drop into ravines or overgrown jungle costs. i feel like i'm in the alps. or on venice. it's like a small world 2 or somehow all in one day on a single island. i'm starting out in the desert at least that's what it looks like here in reality i'm strolling across the dunes at the must follow must resort. here the trade winds shape and reshape the 6 kilometers of june's on the island southern tip again and again. it's a natural spectacle and the vacationers love many hotels line the edge of the dunes more than 4000000 tourists came here in 2019 most were here for sun shore sea and mild temperatures year round. but i want to see the gran canaria that lies beyond

the tourist scene so i head inland to the but i'm called the last 70 carlos by the ravine of the falcons. here you can see you know very narrow place like the jungle here yeah for. catalogues are all my it's showing me what the primeval environment looked like on the ground canara back then most of the island was covered with jungle the further we venture into the ravine the clearer it becomes to me that the island was created by volcanic eruptions. the brink of the last 70 carlos is a popular place to go. canyoning i'm supposed to try it but i'm an absolute newbie . to. get only more exciting than i thought it's hard to. thank

goodness i'm well secured for the trip down. nevertheless my adrenaline level is staying. i thought it was all over when i was lying there. to be honest it wasn't the most dangerous descent and it still was not so fun it would have the i might of gran canaria that they were to have fun then be saved and places. a lot of thought about also we have like a few many t. there were great rabin's with a lot of for. another place and they call us the minion to continue because of this is a combination between green things and see. a good place to stop and catch my breath just put. this to the point on the island

south side is known for its colorful alleyways. and with a bit of imagination the little saltwater canals could just and easily be somewhere and then. only 50 kilometers north everything looks totally different this side of the island is green and for a time i get to valley is europe's biggest coffee growing area. i want to head even higher up to the island's highest point the pico de. mi dina takes me to ground. norris mountain reaches. much sometimes we get snow appear every year but from time to time it snows like a lifestyle you know the same time you could be down on the beach something yourself no you could not or another swimsuit on

a continent you'd have to travel many kilometers to get such a different spot here so he went to shit in just a few minutes the world is among the recruiting i am going to read. indeed here at nearly 2000 meters altitude it's noticeably cooler almost like and. nowhere else is the alpine glow so close to the desert he'd pass on the grand canal. that will really be an amazing work trip on this island but there's much more to the other than just. the. baking cookies and christmas time is a longstanding tradition in many countries certainly here in germany you can even decorate christmas trees for them i myself have already baked for trays of christmas cookies but they are all gone but i'm not worried because he out soon lot

experts at the baking. cinnamon stars vanilla crossings and more of these cookies help get palatable primed for the holiday season susie career one touch us diva of baking blog. the experts on christmas baking recipes nearly welcome to our christmas bakery but we'll show you how we bake christmas cookies in germany. butter cookies are one of the favorites. instead of white sugar catch us do you know uses 100 grams of powdered sugar. for sugar spreads much better through the day when it's without dirt and you don't end up with these sugar crystals all over the dough and you need 125 grams of cubed butter apiece and make. 260 grams of flour a pinch of salt added sugar and for flavoring half of the mill

a part not vanilla sugar. i'm from a very very crumbly with the way that a little kneading turns it bit by the data into a nice woman with delphi. the finished dough goes into the fridge for one hour. now it's time to cut out the cookie. the dough should be rolled out to about 4 millimeters thick. cutting out the cookies is fun for one and all especially when done together with others. and half and we get together with friends and do our baking with them we take along the kids and it's lots of fun. cookie cutters are found some sciences as a listen for example are terrific was play because they're so spread out and don't have any fragile edges of the laptop where the cat is a little harder then you have to use a spoon or some a little tool to press out the tail trying to get the. tide.

the cookies are baked in the oven for 10 minutes at 100 meter degrees celcius. then comes the best part of the decorating the icing is made of powdered sugar lemon juice and food coloring and. a unified tree green. for more elaborate decorating colored sprinkles and white frosting can be used. 'd baking for the christmas season is a tradition in many european countries. norway and sweden have their ever popular gingerbread. austria has its shortbread cookies filled with jelly. a pride of spain of the padrona he's a deep fried dough often made with only a cross on the top czech is known for its waltz nests made with lady fingers. london belgian and another lands the speculative spice cookies are essential

holiday treats. darlin blogger susan fate knows how this tradition got started. what they were baking cookies even back in the middle ages the monks did that in a monasteries to commemorate the birth of jesus christ it was also a sign of wealth the monasteries had lots of money so the monks baked and handed the goods out to the poor. back then where spices like ginger cardamom all spices and cloves filled the air with the familiar christmassy of room for a long time they were good reason europe and only used for holidays we think it's important for them to be fresh and not already ground or taken from some drawer where they were stored for half a year because they're around the fades very quickly now anyone who enjoys baking can whip up an enormous for riots of cookies during the christmas season. for the

flock it's also the custom to give them as gifts and everyone's glad to get them. every kind needs to be sampled at least once. so a plate full of christmas cookies always seems to disappear in no time. 'd to this in the german baking and cooking is what you can find on our you tube channel d.w. food in the segment cook it like a german chef felicitous team shows you how it's done and she invites international guests into the kitchen. interested in german cuisine this is the show for you. though i had come to cook it like a german cook for the sistine presents some of germany's finest dishes to foodies from around the world. a lot of me have you done this before this will be my 1st time. traditional german fare prepared easy to follow steps from the savory

to the sweet we've got it all. cook it like a german. food. like all cultural institutions right now due to the pandemic the famous leipsic avant house orchestra can not perform in concert halls and so it comes up with a wonderful idea some of the musicians have decided to give free open air concerts all around leipsic from the top of a double decker bus. a like 6 double decker sightseeing bus converted into a concert stage on wheels from up here lights in the band house or destroy any additions like christmas carols for city residents on the 4 advent sundays free of charge. it's a welcome break from the dreary pandemic lockdowns as horniest dare not call me for

a mish enjoyed playing with my colleagues we love playing together as an ensemble nobodies and i think we can have a this joy to audiences to get to appreciate this beautiful music version was usually the lights orchestra play some 80 concerts each year but because of coronavirus restrictions concerts are banned so a small group of orchestra musicians have begun performing in public and in front of care homes where many elderly residents struggle with social isolation. their short 15 minute concerts meanwhile are a hit with the rights of residents of all ages. story tug it really is a brilliant project and having brass players performing christmas songs is the most festive thing you could do and that is from sandra it's a beautiful idea right now without concerts and this brings the music to the people

and just a musical instead of people to the music awards to the music. being orchestral players take great pleasure performing in public playing up to 6 christmas songs on the buses upper deck while braving the cold winter weather which can be challenging says a horn player seaman figure out there and stream and it gets very cold which hinders the instruments intonation and interruption from your fingers get free card especially towards the end play 5 or 6 concerts per booster. and your fingers do get stiff making it hard to grip your instruments or. i will today was find the argument after it's to a 2 and i take the bus retards to the fantails orchestra hall which is closed to the public for the forseeable future but director rhonda yes well it's remains optimistic projects like these motivators that we have to heed so many restrictions were banned from so many things so we're excited to do the few things we're still

allowed to do on our musicians enjoy recording c.d.'s or working on media projects inside the concert hall or your mom and playing from a bus despite the cold weather armies with hot coffee and tea all happy to be performing at all. these noble concerts would show that with a little ingenuity we can still get into the festive spirit. please don't forget to check us out on facebook go to our website for this week's draw and a chance of receiving this backpack thanks for watching by. 100000

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royal trash. the secrets of the cast starts december 25th. up. welcome to global 3 sound. and. in the philippines capital manila smog and traffic jams are the order of the day a transport revolution is urgently needed easier said than done. young female engineers working on a mission to mars not necessarily what you'd expect in the united arab emirates. what is life really like as a refugee we meet

a photographer offering insights into the hopes and the suffering of migrants. coronavirus feels like the only news of 2020 but this year has also seen many millions of people forced to flee their homes figures are not yet out for 2020 but they certainly haven't improved since last year when according to the un's refugee agency 79500000 people were classified as either internally displaced or refugees around 40 percent of them were under 18. and then paying the pandemic. extensive lock downs have left many people jobless that's a key reason says the u.n. for many to leave their homes. 2020 also saw the morea camp go up in flames on the greek island of les voss leaving thousands of people homeless how are they doing now what is life really like for migrants in greece.

athens a few days before lockdown any reason why is out and about with his camera. many of the refugees who were sent to the greek me when after moria camp was razed to the ground have ended up here in victoria square now that they have been granted official refugee status they have been left to fend for themselves or. when people are grandcolas siloam they no longer have any right to receive state aid. they get no kind of financial support anymore and no accommodation. the new greek asylum laws have increased the misery of people seeking refuge in europe for years and reads a night has been documenting their fates with his camera and much empathy when he was young to fled with his family from albania to athens where they lived illegally

the prestigious not an emergency photographer has made highlighting migration and the plight of refugees his life work is and i was there when the blaze broke out at the morea camp on lesbos. mama. you know i remember the exhaustion and fear in their eyes but i also saw hope that moria was finally over the hope that things would improve but one of the girls who i have often photographed the 12 year old afghan girl monita organized a protest march on the day after the fire. at 1st only 20 children took part in the march kept swelling in size they all just wanted to get away from the island in the middle of the island these are desperate cries for help but the european union remains deeply divided on asylum and migration policy the greeks rushed to build a temporary replacement camp directly by the sea not the knight is one of the few

photojournalists with access to cartel pay he too is only allowed to work with a police escort and attempt to control the flow of information to the outside world about the catastrophic conditions the accommodation in tents the lack of medical provision sued and running water. people wash themselves with seawater. but when the winter comes what should they do then deny him or not. because the children are already in a pitiful state. yes. after. and yet people continue to have this unbelievable energy for example i saw manager crying in despair when moria was burning and then she really impressed me with her actions 1st she organized the protest and then she established a school again in the new camp and talked the youngest children so. it's

unbelievable how these people managed to keep looking ahead. with the next against the one on. 'd 'd flooding the looming winter the coronavirus pandemic what has to happen to make europe remember its fundamental values. i can't comprehend that we aren't helping these people because we are afraid of more migrants arriving and of. view of some of the people that we're talking about have been living here for 2 or 3 years already hardly any migrants arrived here last year for. first some here at the photographer is a mainstay including marsha from afghanistan this is why this masters will be far fewer than a woman when i told her that i would be leaving in a few days she turned around suddenly and said to me will you come and say goodbye to us before you leave us up here i almost welled up with tears.

before you mean say goodbye to us is also the working title of a forthcoming photo book a book devoted to the people whose lives he has been documenting since 2015 when the number of migrants arriving in europe reached its high point. the photographer has followed their movements their arrival in germany and sweden in some cases these photos also tell a story a fresh starts after. it was hopeful to see that many of the people who made it as far can now stand on their own 2 feet and were able to begin a new life. in athens was and i will continue to record the struggle of the morio refugees to survive they too should have a chance. why did the

wealthy gulf states take in barely any refugees the united arab emirates for example appears to invest it substantial oil revenues in state buildings vast airports and airlines full prestigious p.r. friendly projects some analysts say many feel social unrest should the country welcome in too many migrants yet despite such criticisms one thing is changing in the u.a.e. the status of women that's particularly clear in its state funded mosque mission. is monitoring the progress of the hope spacecraft. it's sipping along at more than 100000 kilometers an hour on course for mars. it's to go into orbit around the planet in february. pleasure seraphine is

a chemist and propulsion engineer and does shift says risk manager in the control room the responsibility is huge but she and the rest of the team are well prepared for unexpected events. losing contact moving. forward here. we always have contingency plans and days. off nominal situations like missing contact. the emirate mars mission is the 1st interplanetary mission by an arab country. why. the hope spacecraft was launched from the tiny gushy must play center in japan on the 20th of july it was a big moment for the team at mission control in dubai. the aim of the mission is to gain a complete picture of mars atmosphere clouds gasses and dust storms and thus new insight into the planet's climate dynamics.

the mission also has strategic goals polishing the image of the u.a.e. and inspiring young people to study science it's a conservative society ruled by old men that is still dependent on oil revenues but it wants to go high tech become a knowledge economy and appear liberal. the mohammed bin rashid space center exemplifies this process of transformation it started developing satellites in 2006 with know how and technology acquired from abroad. ayesha sharaf he has been working here since she graduated from university she's the spacecraft propulsion subsystem leader on the mars mission it's a huge venture and adventure with its ups and downs. working

with women was something new for most and i want the lead mission systems engineer it took some getting used to but now they work together as equals. from the beginning we were used to seeing female engineers working on sides of you know some technical. segments or sectors that you know more than only men works there you will be surprised to see them out and the interest of their female engineers down. the mars mission builds on the success of the space center's earth observation satellite company 1st set launched in 2018 the 1st satellite built entirely in the u.a.e. and mainly by women on the mars mission 80 percent of the scientists are women.

being at the center doesn't become an obstacle course of becoming a mother i'm indeed the mother myself and i don't have a kid so it doesn't point just away from being down and taking care to follow my fantasies but. if it gives a said chance to contribute to the country that has a lot of support from the center as well supporting us with flex but timing's and also supporting us in terms of giving us the specific leaves when we acquired a. government policy in the u.a.e. to achieve gender equality and to empower women and girls however 70 percent of the workforce are still men even though there are lots of educated women . who. are mere years minister of state for advanced science and science lead on the mars mission hiring for the mission

without regard to an old boys' network meant new opportunities for highly qualified women having a small organization a more of a start up culture that is. that needs to develop at a very fast rate where the objectives are very challenging you no longer are able to discriminate against people and you have to get the best people to to fulfill the job. still there's a long way to go until gender equality use attained in many arab countries nonetheless the space center is offered women like i share rafi the opportunity to reach for the stars. and now from space we had back to us in 2015 there were around 1300000000 their calls on our planet comes motorbikes buses most of them privately owned forecasts suggest that by 2050 this figure could

almost double to more than 2 and a half 1000000000. the rapid rise in vehicles will be felt most in developing countries where at pollution is already a huge problem. electric vehicles like these buses in chile oh minivans in kenya will be essential if we're to achieve a proper shift to sustainable transportation but ecologists remain the exception in most places that's something that's gradually starting to change in the philippines . more than 13000000 people live in metro manila the air is thick and not just with humidity pollution has long been a problem here according to the world health organization the philippines has an exceptionally high rate of air pollution related deaths postal delivery worker. struggles to make his way through this congestion every morning but he's one of the

few people in the city with an emo pen and can travel from a to b. quietly and without creating any emissions here in the past district of manila i would always go by emo pit given the choice. it's quieter and it doesn't pollute the air you also save on gas money. but the other motorbikes around me are really loud i feel much more relaxed on my move could write something are the guys that it's a lot less stressful martian driving thing i'm a shadow my status. the philippines electric postal fleet is part of a model project that is co funded by the united nations and the philippine energy ministry a total of 30 vehicles. can run on and city metro manila wants to become an environmental pioneer and cut traffic congestion with new concepts pasig is one of 10 model cities worldwide where

a lecture mobility is being promoted with funding from the e.u. and the international climate initiative. but it's not that simple and the mayor of passing knows just how urgently changes needed. climate change in air pollution there are definitely problems for us globally but. the image of. air pollution is definitely a big problem recently we just completed our greenhouse gas inventor the. air pollution in the city or. are alarming to see the least and we need to do it every week to lower these numbers in the near future. just wants to profit from this switch to elect your mobility base to the south of metro manila for 7 years now it has been building a range of electric vehicles including these jeepneys currently motors

still imports all its components from china the vision is actually producing and engineering locally for our local costumers so our mission is to have people enjoy electric vehicles as their mode of transportation for public and private. but the company still relies on support from the philippine government and the european union plus immobility has yet to properly take off in the country and the technical specifications have yet to be finalized the heart of the whole thing will is the electric battery. and we need to get a good breaks between the size of the battery and what would be affordable for the for the for the for the market. at the moment hardly anyone buys electric cars in the philippines the private use. nifty has a start up that builds folding bicycles and originally electric ones too but with

that business proving unprofitable the 2 founders now only upgrade bikes with batteries the parts that. costs seem asakusa eba a bit to get from china so for a start it's very difficult to compete especially in such a new market such the. market where it's very price sensitive income f. or e. is the startups co-founder he and his team make standard folding bikes he's a cycling enthusiast and keen to contribute to efforts to reduce traffic congestion our cities were not designed other modes of transportation specially it will not wait that i support the show and once so. if you're see if these not meant for bicycle is electric bicycles would also be challenging. electrum ability comes at a high price it's still too expensive for most people and it also hasn't gained

widespread acceptance among the population according to the merest past sake nevertheless the desire for a cleaner and more environmentally friendly city is growing so what with the people we talk to like to see 30 years from now. i hope the congestion will have eased by 2050 particularly if more people use electric vehicles whether they're motorbikes bicycles or cars i hope they'll be more of them because it will improve traffic. bus again 2050 hopefully it's the city where. all modes of transportation are not just accepted but widely used. where the it goes do not dominate the routes the vehicles are up by the people but instead you by the service and without the slower phone on the smart solution of. the mobility these measurable

in 25th i hope that measurement and resists cycling as an infrastructure as a way for people to move around you know we have bike lanes here to take us around to different cities covered with trees. it's a vision that seems a world away from the current congested reality of manila by 2050 up to 23000000 people will live in the region making the need for new mobility concepts all the more pressing. now we had from bustling manila to rural south africa that many people would love to have more options for getting around. kids and teenagers here often find it challenging even getting to school. all reports a junia yaquis met members of an ngo who are kissing children now with 2nd hand bikes. basting the lives of many and the coastal town of margate.

is the child who starts the day with a very long walk to school it takes almost an hour to get that. she lives in kwazulu-natal province in south africa in a village near the east coast. i have to get. ready for school early because the toll on the way is. there's no public transport around her children often a rifle late at school or just don't go she goes to include primary school the deputy principal says a number of issues need to be addressed and this problem of late coming as it is also up and this and that is the issue that driving and they say that that is girls walking one better or worse and they have this program of crime another crime in south africa's graveyard as the problem was. a few kilometers away is the base of

an ngo that wants to solve the transportation problem for poor local children not iraq's most i am to my son gamey and some part of the team of sweet bite there on loading 400 and 72nd hand bikes recently delivered from switzerland they'll go to kids at various schools here in the area around market 140 kilometers south of up and so basically when a new concern arrives it's very i feel like a small child who's about to open a like a park and it's really like this is the change that's been thrown into the country doesn't have a feeling that i get when that happens you know i was into vertical from the. sweet by got going i'll steer it has already provided more than 1900 bicycles to schools each one 1st has to be assembled and tested at the sweet bike workshop the project depends on donations. depending on how much money comes in some going out of the

team by an import up to several containers full each year. the covert 19 pandemic has meant delays and deliveries recently. are we trying to squeeze everything in before the closing of the schools for the festive season which is a bit stressful at the moment but. the workshop has 5 trainee mechanics. is in charge here. together they process about 40 bikes a day vocational training as another coup or element of sweet bikes mission the aim is to end hot skills and create jobs and new opportunities and bicycle assembly path and distribution the idea is at the end of the year to equip them we have enough skills so they can either open their own workshop or be placed in

a drab but you can see in the field we try and teach not only to think of it as mechanics but also maybe selling bikes some of the trainees already have plans for when they complete the course in future would lead to. bicycles and certainly to all out to all round areas because there's not much transport so they can use bicycles. some foreigner and a younger muslim gamey are going to visit a friend and former trainee. he lives in a village a few kilometers away. supermom close in amr completed the course a year ago. he now runs a bike workshop in his house.

sweet bike gave him a starter set of tools. he thought a lot of schoolchildren would come to have their bikes looked at but the pandemic and lockdown meant schools were closed and few actually showed up still businesses not bad. i'm getting more. and so all of us you know they can come just to fix their bicycles. the next morning back at sweet bike it's time to distribute a bunch of newly assembled and tested bikes before schools close for the christmas holidays in mid december. these bikes are for in kulu primary school. progress is slow on the unpaved road.

the children are excited about the bikes. especially as if a child. for her it had been a long wait 500 came here i felt like help get a bike but i didn't get it. i thought maybe it could come again when it happened. to happen before the kids can set off on their bikes they get safety training for some riding a bike is an entirely new experience. now i have my own time spots i can all i want to call. it isn't something that. balancing on 2 wheels takes a little park to us but to seal a child who is keen to learn and would like nothing more than to cycle to school the very next day her her her.

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