a bundle of sacred twigs symbolizes the forest as a witness to the marriage. i've learnt a lot with my interaction with these women they've pushed me in ways if i'm pushing them to be better and be able to push me to be better as cassandra nazareth his name is too far into the wyly they call her cash emailing light the spark was kindled by both sides now they work together to protect the last of mumbai's green lungs and the survival of the indigenous people of our a forest. indeed when women grew from being invisible to visible the whole society benefits let's go meet a young champion of that body and i'm going to run from russia is yet another example of how women can shape the world for the better she's devised to write to you if we used to encourage people to plant trees to shoot overseas 6000. that

would help plant the forest project. what looks like random bunches of greenery are in fact pine tree saplings thousands of them all ready for planting marianna meone she explains how it's done it's very simple you place the sampling in the hole then fill that with earth and ship the saplings firmly better than. 8000 saplings are due to be planted today here on the outskirts of moscow marianna munteanu asked for help online and an army of volunteers as responded she regularly invites members of the public to help or. russia's forests of taking quite a beating in recent years areas have been devastated by wildfires pests like bark beetles pose a further challenge russia has more forest than any other country trees cover nearly half of this vast land.

i think doing this since 2010 there were terrible wildfires back then throughout the whole of russia i saw a picture of huge wellestablished trees being blown across the fields by the wind they were breaking off like matchsticks marianna munchie onil studied economics and initially worked in finance but she quit her job to devote all her attention to reforestation you can change the world one small step at a time and people will pull together for a good cause. everybody here wants to help people become more aware of nature again and to encourage them to do their bit to protect the environment. i want our planet to be as intact as possible so that we have healthy air to breed and leave our children and

grandchildren an environment in which they can live well our environment is sick i don't want to inflict further injuries on the natural world. od back in her moscow apartment she's able to relax after all the hard work but she never loses sight of her goal. but against a change in my earth and this is my mission in life i want to achieve great things for the benefit of society of the planet and nature of planet. good afternoon my name is mario hometown and i'm president of the russian climate fund was the good. work has long since expanded beyond planting trees together with other environmental activists she puts out her own podcast big to get the message out to more people but she's also developed a mobile game app called plant the forest the aim is to promote interest in the well being of trees income from the app goes to plant new saplings. and you

plenty more on the gamer has to collect points which then allow him to plant trees the idea is to inspire users so that they stop being indifferent towards our trees and so that they want to help with 3 forestation. with nothing. back to the forest on the outskirts of moscow it's time for a lunch in the past 10 years marianna no end her helpers have planted more than a 1000000 trees that's the equivalent of around 1300 soccer fields a large number of volunteers of all ages have helped to make it possible last year she was selected by the united nations for the young champion of the earth award. soon this area should once again be a strong healthy forest hopefully strong enough to withstand all the challenges of the future. when it comes to an independent life and earning

a living many women still shy away from founding their companies but many who are often looking for a cause to support a social or. we've met a few such entrepreneurs in germany. rolls and rolls of patterned material. and her husband are selecting the most suitable to use for their next batch of beeswax wraps. we use organic cotton coated with a layer of bees wax tree resin and hobo oil which the 3 components together of what we paint on to the material the mixture is the secrets behind the wraps. and the great thing is that these wax cloth allows food to breathe at the same time as keeping it moist. condensation doesn't develop and that's basically why the plastic wrap food often goes. up plastic.

the mother of 2 developed her prototypes 3 years ago in her own kitchen with lots of wax and an iron she'd come across bees wax cloth while she was studying to be a graphics designer in the us. since we were always using so much plastic cling film which can be recycled i thought ok bees wax cloth is a great alternative but i want to know what it's made of and i want to use raw materials from europe that's how i started making it in my kitchen. there's a lot of manual work involved the high level of wax in the mixture means the cloth stick together once they're made they have to be separated by hand cristina's our insists on manufacturing in berlin and pays her employees fairly. so to beeswax cloths are quite expensive at 10 euros but they can be reused for up to

a year part of women's entrepreneurship right now is known to produce it in general is seeing this the emergence of what we call impact investing and use social entrepreneurship. christine as business idea has created 20 jobs here. there are plenty of women who want to go out in profits in the 1st important thing to them but by and large an agenda to really speaks very directly to this this idea that when it comes to prayer ties and social rules of my own middle schools and economic goals men tend to prayer ties economic goals or other goals women tend to pray or try as social goals or other goals. it can be a long slog before a female entrepreneur can live off her profits in berlin's meant to distract the vibe of a chaffed female entrepreneurs center helps women who want to become self-employed it offers support in developing a business plan brokering micro credits there's even

a daycare center it's this support that the more than 70 members value about this co-operative treasure and also need as my home phone is or at least we have 1st of all it's far harder for a woman to set up and business there's a systemic disadvantaging of women here in germany they're supposed to take on the nurturing work meaning they do much more work in the family and they earn less than men that raises the hurdles for setting up a business. women tend to found service companies rather than tech companies and it's hard for them to find commercial space which also needs to be close to home so that they can also take care of the family. you before moving objects ally's. the rents in the co-operative are well below average something fashion designer cutting you out on packets from. she's been producing her own fashion collections for 10 years. her materials are all organic made in weaving mills in germany

austria and elsewhere in europe. she wants to take a stand against the fast turnover cheap textiles industry. mock what we buy today is definitely too cheap so basically you shouldn't be able to sell clothing at those prices because i know what the costs here are like even if we consider economies of scale what's on offer here is still too cheap that devalues the garments along with the people who make them we simply can't do that to each other . ethically made high value clothes have their price address here cost 600 euros a top 170 card in says the priority for her customers used to be well dressed now many have a keen interest in where the clothes are made because tina also found customers quickly her bees wax wraps are now sold in 8000 shops across europe the annual

turnover is a 7 figure sum but she doesn't want to exports to asia africa or the u.s. as it's not hard to get i wanted to make a sustainable product right from the start because i said to myself we have these rule materials in europe if we shipped them overseas the c o 2 emissions would be catastrophic. but she can imagine setting up production abroad using locally sourced raw materials and a local office for the local market. i hope to raise episode has. empowered and enable the women around you what they were good for the environment and put this aside to seek them out of your community and give them a path of the back i'll leave you with that part and see you again next week with many more talk stories from our entire team in india and germany good buy. it's.

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