dear to me. the history of the slave trade is of africa's history. of times a week for power and profit plummeted and entire concepts into chaos and violence. this is the journey back into the history of slavery. our documentary series slavery routes starts march 10th on t w. this woman is helping her but you've lost need to medicinal plants and knowledge this woman is empowering indigenous women in mumbai is a forest and this woman is working to convince people to switch to alternatives of

plastic we met these simonton for us to tell you about their inspiring stories hello welcome to the core india and some of that coming to you from mumbai. for centuries women have been the keepers of traditional law which often bastone to them or to you from their mothers and grandmothers to be a lot of it has been lost or forgotten there by the movements led by women can be seen in so many parts of the world we met one such woman. who sustainability of by being lost need to hopes and in the process enabling the local community to be self-reliant. if. it is a quite more it could be up on a small village in the southern indian estate of bombing. in a little shop bought of a peanut garage just suggesting some home remedies to

a young mother she has been quietly leading a cross truth movement for the last 20 years conserving the biodiversity of the region through a devival of traditional and medicinal plants. almost 65 percent of india's population depends upon traditional medicines for health care to avoid health organization estimates however climate change and over harvesting is lead to a massive destruction of the splines about $300.00 species in india currently under threat of extinction. the kuwaiti bio region with barbara dever as the set to the still be home to all of its 100 indigenous the species of plums. what he learned about native as a child also growing up to be the 1st woman to graduate and how that. what about the level you have thought about it but i'm lucky and i want to get a good on the bottom that we belong to a family of traditional her bones wieners everyone in my religious used to come to

my house for medication at this juncture i was diagnosed with a skin disease when i was medically 3 days old and. i think that what i had my family struggled hard to find a cure until the succeeded when i was 7 even at that age i learnt to discern which herb was used for one of the beers sort of the get out the now morning and then to give the client a cup but beyond that by a committee. later she did her masters and human rights records and called to a project by the end my mental picture on the quantum forest organization based in tamil nadu as a herbal health worker. and with. her . she formed self-help groups. that would encourage them and to set up gods souls and produce close to 40 herbal remedies cosmetics and organic food helping these women on a living man for the 1st time at. all for it sustainably from nearby forest and kitchen gardens dried and hand processed and sold at lonmin in the course starting

at 42 p. to nearby villages organic and submissions so a lot of that and i in the local and they've an idea if you see in our village for instance the most common problems are in back pain and knee pads for that we use locally sourced herbs to make an oil that eases the pain we have paved the way for the natives to use it easy early man and what i want that madea now on which to grab. the remote village of not to cooper is one of the most distant vantage regions in the district. near the very end well as cheap labor years as this and franchised house. to the self-help group they have gained a certain degree of independence. my family didn't let me study i got mattered as soon as i completed my 12th standard in school after i beat on one i attended meetings of a self-help group calling anybody interested in working with herbs at 1st i was

skeptical about how i would work with a young kid and where i could work with others in the team and one of. the neighboring annoying nursery here plans a groan for other self-help groups as well as for home gardeners across the state. we had the most sustainability is one of our most important principles. it was the home of the law and then i notice everyone in a while if i need $500.00 plants i take only $500.00 seeds the rest will fall down and will become forest again only if we uproot plants will it impact the foreigners that cod area that and the fear of it is them to become forest again there is normal risk of destruction here or that one of them might have been a god or whatever and i have the run out is on saying that. sustainability is the key driver drawn through all the self-help groups set up by. how they have come to

create a system that guarantees it. will look like a sausage at the open if there is a local resource and it's in abundance you plan on how we can create value added products from it in case there is a shortage of any plant we decide on how one can be propagated out of many a lot of them but that and again it was a little. thanks to part with the nagarajan spidering work when you have found your way back to our kids and hundreds of them and have become pregnant for their families. women stand on the front line of climate change you may have heard this or seen this on the news but what does this mean exactly and why are women facing higher risks by the impact of climate change let's take an in-depth look. all around the

world women are leading movements that call for governments to take action against climate change in a crisis that's manmade and they are taking the biggest toll on women women are among the groups most impacted by climate change but why. other family sustaining the latest document it's taken a family members it's a challenge for it's going to challenge for a moment in many developing countries men leave rural areas migrating to the city to find work and women are left to take care of their families and their farms relying on the natural resources most impacted by climate change to live. and prevailing inequalities across society caught them at higher risk. let's take the example of women farmers worldwide women make up at least 43 percent of the agricultural workforce and yet less than 15 percent of all landowners are

women. that means their land tenure security is non-existent in many cases this is seeming khayyam a policy advisor on sustainable development and acting chief for economic empowerment at un women they don't have the same access as men to agricultural inputs by that we mean seeds and fertilizer and equipment and knowledge and technology so when there is a climate change impacts whether it's. extreme weather events or prolonged periods of heat or cold women have fewer economic resources to be able to withstand those shocks. those are just some of the direct impact climate related disasters can also lead to further

hardship and increased poverty in some cases parents are unable to feed their children and take desperate measures. in the 1516 years. girls are trafficked this is and research at a g. a community worker at. salvation forum for environment more safe based in calcutta sometimes. out of sheer poverty. and it endures say that and getting her mad it guy who are. some maybe are among the related ones and most cases you find those marriages end up in human trafficking but women are not just impacted by climate change being on the front lines puts them in a unique position to find ways of adapting by creating climate resilient food systems working to preserve food and forming co-operatives because women were left to do all the work that allows communities to so i mean with or non-work culturally

women at the expertise that's vandana shiva a prominent indian environmental activist who's been working in the field for more than 40 years seeds of compassion and there are preserved women through the culture that they were compelled into. it's not only on the ground that women can have an impact currently women make up around a quarter of all national parliamentarians but there's evidence to suggest that if there were more it could bring change. there are studies that have shown that if you have women in parliament. those countries are have a greater likelihood of doing and enforcing legislation that addresses climate change. activists say that needs to be representation at all

levels and only then can progress be made in the fight against climate change. the knowledge and skills a whim and are priceless here in the crowded city of mumbai deep in the arctic forest a lot of this knowledge and traditions are still very likely but the exchange of unmoved by coast is rare for a local social entrepreneur wanting to make the secrets of our indigenous women. are a forest is full of ancient trees and wild animals. 2000 acres of stunning nature in the midst of mumbai india's 2nd most populous city. the standard nazareth is a businesswoman and activist from the mega city in 2020 she took part in a protest against plans to clear part of the forest to make room for

a trolley station the protest succeeded because sandra is still drawn to the woods . your i'm walking into are they trying to save a forest and i've discovered a community which probably needs more saving than the parties. around 70. 1000 indigenous people in our a forest. and. never going to giovanni many who are very little. but the noise at all but if you could. women like a book could you cook steamed rice wheat a traditional dish of the tribe. because sandra nazareth helps the women of our a forest find customers in mumbai this helps them earn money and increases their self-confidence. madam did. before

madam nazareth came here we were too shy to talk but then she looked people in the face and told them to speak up even now she encourages us to talk openly and courageously with the authority. of this well was clogged but now water flows once again i don't know from mumbai recently page 275000 rupees or 3000 euros to build a new well women now have more time and independence to do other activities rather than fetching water. they don't have the luxury of getting water with. you don't they have to sort of for the what she plead to the village where. before there were no toilets here. they were made available there used to be no drinking water facility but they gave us drilled wells and flour mills before that

happened we had to go a long way for water but now it's available near our homes. now the art of the people also covers these banks because sandra nazareth sells them online and the proceeds go to the women. loudly. ending this war late tribal art is well known in the world and i'm happy i know how to do it madame nazareth gave me painting supplies and pays me for it. women here have also learned other ways to create an income for themselves. they sell her and other plants from the forest. a little over certain stomach elements and this is her heart problems the medicine is made from these. although the wyly are in contact with the modern world they still try to honor their tradition as with this wedding. the bride wears

a stunning traditional dress. the groom makes offerings to the day it they believe live in trees. a bundle of sacred twigs symbolizes the forest as a witness to the marriage. i learned a lot with my interaction with these women they've pushed me in ways if i'm pushing them to be better i'll be able to push them to be better as cassandra nazareth his name is too far into the wiley they call her meaning 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 are a forest. indeed when women grew from being invisible to visible the whole society benefits let's go meet a young champion of it. 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 already for planting marianna monty a new explains how it's done it's very simple you place the sapling in the hole then fill that with earth and the sacrifice firmly batted in 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 huge 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've been doing this since 2010 there were terrible wildfires back then throughout the whole of russia i saw a picture of huge well established trees being blown across the fields by the wind they were breaking off like matchsticks marianna munchie i know 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 choice courage 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 breathe 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. back in her moscow apartment she's able to relax after all the hard work but she never loses sight of her goal i didn't see 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 played looked at odds good afternoon nobody my name is mario monti ana and i'm president of the russian climate fund. was the good poignant the. work has long since expanded beyond planting trees together with other environmental activists she puts out her own podcast in a bid 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 rain forest station. with nothing. back to the forest on the outskirts of moscow it's time for lunch in the past 10 years marianna and 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.

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 environmental cause 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. your ball washed we use organic cotton coated with a layer of bees wax tree resin and to hobo oil the 3 components together of what we paint on to the material the mixture is the secret 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 clingfilm which can't 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 bees wax 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 only pollution 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 next 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 breyer 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 mitta district 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 day care center it's this support that the more than 70 members value about this co-operative treasure and also need one home fallen or at least they have a 1st of all it's far harder for a woman to set up and business there's a systemic disadvantaging that 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 i made to own for you before moving our bikes ally's. the rents in the co-operative are well below average something fashion designer cutting your back it's 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. 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 curtain says the priority for her customers used to be being well dressed

now many have a keen interest in where the clothes are made christina also found customers quickly her beeswax wraps are now sold in $1000.00 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 inspired him and enable the women around what are we good for the environment and put this aside to seek them out in your community and give them a path of the back i'll leave you with that part and see you again next week but

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