this is d.w. news live from berlin women's rights in turkey are dealt a serious blow thousands protested is temple after president aired a one pulls out of an international treaty to protect women against violence aired on supporters say the tactic damages traditional values also on the show and she locked down tro testers come out in force across europe demanding the easing of restrictions meanwhile hospitals are filling up with close to 1000 patients as the continent battles a 3rd wave. and robert live on dope steve the great closing in on the fabled record

in the bundesliga he keeps scoring goals and his club buyers keep on winning. american evanston thanks for joining me women in turkey have taken to the streets to protest the government's decision to pull out of an international accord protecting women from violence conservative say the 2011 istanbul convention threatens a family values and promotes homosexuality women's rights groups immediately call for demonstrations against the move germany's foreign ministry has condemned turkey's withdrawal from the treaty. seeing that anger. thousands of demonstrators took to istanbul streets in response to president

assad or ones actions. that will be used on both convention is a means of protection for us women and now the government paves the way for more violence against women and that's the reason we're here now if. i heard about the withdraw decision in the morning and i got very angry i told myself i purposely can't change it and all of us here we can't change it but at least i wanted to shout out my anger toward a war like parker much of the work i. did when i heard about the decision i thought it was a joke at 1st i could not believe it there had been discussions about this but i thought they would not do it i think this is a political decision and they are ignoring the rights of women and children for the sake of their own political benefits. will play you a lot better one has been under pressure from members of his party who say the

convention undermines the traditional family structure they also say its principle of nondiscrimination on the basis of sexual orientation amounts to promoting homosexuality. but activists say gender inequality is still a major issue in turkey last year women's rights groups reported over $300.00 women were murdered across the country and they say turkey's withdrawal from the convention comes at a time when violence against women is on the rise. yes. earlier we spoke to w. correspondent julia hahn and we asked her why a president everyone had decided to withdraw from the convention well you have to understand that the whole discourse surrounding this istanbul convention has dramatically changed 10 years ago when it was signed it was hailed as a breakthrough for gender equality here in turkey and then last year members of the present ones conservative. islamist rooted a.k.p.

started to suggest the government should withdraw from the from the treaty arguing as you mentioned that aid threatens traditional muslim family structures or encourages homosexuality then women took to the streets in protest but still we saw prison edwin's decision now so why is that observers argue that it only shows how much influence hartline escaped in his ruling party and ruling party correlation and turkey has been experiencing an economic downturn or downturn for quite some while now and they're saying this is a one and his party trying to energize and mobilize their base so the move has a domestic reason steps what observers say. tens of thousands of people in several european cities have held protests against pandemic restrictions in the german city of consul demonstrators clashed with police who then used pepper spray and water

cannon to disperse the crowds the protests are taking place as infection numbers are rising across the continent and i see you beds are filling up. lungs was so weak a machine helps with breathing. at this hospital in rome special covert 19 i.c.u. beds are filling up yet again. at this moment we have a bed occupancy that is quite significant. around 80 percent of the beds are taken . health care workers are exhausted physically and emotionally from a year long fight against the virus. but something always taking care of patients is an emotionally draining. especially because they are lonely. we have seen patients who have asked to make the last phone call before being

incubated like guarantee you that is emotionally very stressful. case numbers are spiking all across europe but the threat of incubation in an i.c.u. and the immense burden on health care workers isn't enough to convince some people to follow the restrictions. protests against a lockdown spread all over europe on saturday including in germany. in finland. the united kingdom. and poland. there were scuffles with police in the german city of castle where thousands of moscow's people marched demanding more freedoms oh. i want our fundamental rights to be respected again they have been disregarded for a year now there's a lock on this lock down must and order people wear masks and still nothing gets better if you are not i don't think it's right that they were not being informed

about the vaccination by the informed. german authorities worried the protests could become a super spreader a vent placing further pressure on hospitals already seeing an increase in admissions. there is no clear organizational link between the demonstrations but they do attract similar crowds conspiracy theorists and he backs is and right wing extremists march alongside those simply fed up with staying inside. while infection numbers are also rising in france where authorities have introduced a 3rd a lockdown here lisa lewis reporting from paris. for the 3rd time in a year france is under lockdown because of credit 19 at least certain parts of the country in paris and 15 other departments all non-essential shops will be closed for at least the coming for weeks and interregional travel is forbidden in the

confine variance but the rules are less strict than during the 1st 3 lockdowns last year people are lot out within a radius of 10 kilometers around their homes instead of just one and there is no longer a time limit to how long their daily walks can take as long as they are home by 7 pm when the curfew kicks in it's a lockdown life and the government is fighting it can avoid imposing most severe rules by largely relying on the french self-discipline but that's a risky bet according to a recent poll almost half of those living in the confines aliens. intend not to respect the new rules. all right have been to think of football now and robert lewandowski scored a 1st half had trick is by munich one easily over visiting st current the polar

striker now needs just 5 goals from his 8 remaining matches to equal the record set for the most goals scored in a single season byron striker managed $48.00 almost 5 decades ago and since then no one has come close until now. robert evans he is closer than ever to the all time goal scoring record he's already 932 times this season and ahead of this clash with god's bonds afternoon started with a setback when our phones are davies was said so for this challenge to cause what harun and any host the guests may have harbored of a shock result were dealt a blow shortly afterwards though when serge cannot reset up leventhal ski for his 1st of the afternoon. after the smooth passing move in the 22nd mini could not bring himself doubled by ends meet the 3rd goal in the space of 5 minutes then followed when thomas cross delivered dogs who converted with

a perfectly placed. by owen's 4th the striker complete a 1st half hat trick with his 35th bundesliga goal of the current campaign with games left 11 looks a safe bet to equal or even surpassed good morals record of 40 goals in a single season. i don't want to think about it too much i need to stay patient and do my job how many goals i need to school that's a secondary concern at the moment that's the thing there's a man in fight that i. acquired 2nd stuttgart accept that. freights very start in 7th place while leaders boy and maintain their point christian are vermont at the top of the very. well in the friday night matchup 2nd place leipsic took until the 2nd half to break through against beulah felt

a pass from the wing the lounge marcel's obvious or to tap the ball into that for a one new leaves good work from dani omo created the chance in the 46th minute and that was all live sick needed one you know the final score. let's take a look now at the scoreboard to where you can see the byron victory as well as that earlier win by leipzig frankfurt be doing your own berlin 52 and dortmund and cologne played to a draw was 41 at braman last place shaka lost again this time to mention and sunday's schedule includes hair to berlin hosting recruits and. well today in one german football stadium fans were welcomed back for the 1st time in germany since last autumn albeit in a limited capacity it happened and 3rd tier club huns owe all stock of the 700 fans present had to take rapid coronavirus tests before they were allowed to enter the

stadium and once inside they were supposed to social distance and also be strict about wearing their masks all stalker road of the small way the fans to win the match over how to share. tokyo's trouble to limp and paralympic games have suffered yet another setback with the announcement that international fans will not be able to attend due to coronavirus concerns the summer games were due to take place last year bond were postponed due to the pandemic and now only japan based ticket holders can attend making tokyo with the 1st games ever without international fans. chios decision to exclude international fans was expected but came with a shock the city's governor looked askance as an earthquake struck during the olympic organizers meeting they are now hoping to minimize the impact of covert 19

. and then it is surely disappointing but given the coronavirus situation and in order to not burden the medical situation in japan it was an unavoidable decision in order to ensure a safe and secure environment for people in japan and the athletes and participants coming from abroad. almost $1000000.00 tickets will be refunded to international guests but hotel and travel costs will not be the loss of tourism income adds to the bill of what is already expected to be the most expensive games ever the stadiums have long been ready now many seats will go unfilled. so you really feel sorry for this situation but it is necessary decision because we have to respect the safety of all the participants and we will make all the efforts. there to

share with the olympic spirit by means of broadcasting and digital the platforms so that they enjoy the olympic games talk you were 2020. representatives appear positive but the games are on a losing streak to executives have resigned after making derogatory comments about women some question whether the games can happen at all although organizers insist they will go ahead the torch relay is set to start this week with just over 4 months to go until the olympics start there's still plenty of time for more plans to go up in flames. you're watching the news coming from berlin we leave you now with art from new york and a new show from creator julius horst house it features massive digital projections

of fractals which are infinitely repeating geometric shapes a marionette and staying from me and the entire news team thanks for watching. the. children. come to this. one giant problem and we are in no mood to see what you. mean by the media. if you. were children. water.

unlike the outdoors. everyone was everything. are you ready to make the germans. do it. worlds and stuff that cost reminiscent of hollywood movies no wonder people around the globe and yes think about computer games but how influential are they really and how does the gaming seen him play society and what topic today on. more than 3000000000 people around the world regularly play games on a p.c. console or in my case on the smartphone games are an everyday part of life for about 40 percent of the people worldwide so it's not surprising that marketing

strategist count on the wide reach like with the popular real time simulation game animal crossing your horizons earlier this year it was sold out even democratic presidential candidate joe biden who is nearly 80 years old is using the game to reach new voters over 22000000 people play animal crossing or horizons in this game. you can also use campaign posters team behind joe biden's campaign has added to the game all of which can be put on. joe biden's campaign team are trying to reach specific target audiences. and animal crossing is an effective way to reach a relatively young mostly female target audience. it's difficult to assess the advocacy of animal crossing or other online games and campaigning but in this

case they definitely managed to grab the media's attention has shifted. is not the 1st u.s. politician to try using gangs during an election campaign in 2006. party favors the democratic presidential primaries made a campaign appearance in the virtual world of 2nd life he was defeated by barack obama who then went on to set up a virtual campaign headquarters in 2nd life in the run up to the 2008 election his campaign ads appeared in sports and racing. because of the lack of transparency there's a potential danger with political campaigning in online games. with animal crossing and joe biden there's a lot of media attention and they specifically targeted that game but generally speaking anyone could do that. trumps. the animal crossing pro-democracy activists in hong kong have content available to be

used to circulate political messages likewise the. test. whether they like it or not most places are bound to be confronted with political issues and animal crossing for the foreseeable future. to be completely honest i'm not sure that game complaining is a good idea sometimes i just want to switch off radical political groups are using animal crossing to spread more extreme views as well use of content but nintendo doesn't have a real strategy to stop hate speech unfortunately the same is true for many other platforms multiplayer games have a huge problem with racism and sexism. even if they think it's just men and boys are creating a toxic atmosphere online they still crossing a line as a recent example from germany shows the new streaming star montana black normally has over $3000000.00 followers on the video platform twitch due to his massage

honest and sexist videos. free to draw 32 year olds account was blocked for a month afterwards montana black apologized for his heavily criticized holiday videos. the outcome from this case is unusual because perpetrators don't normally face any consequences usually it's the gamers who speak out against sexism missile jinnie and racism who become targets for coordinated hate complaints this past summer thousands of women spoke out about experiences of sexual violence on twitch and since then they have been numerous accounts of women being harassed or abused online. as a gamer who likes to play a lot especially online she encounters massage mystic insults and games on a daily basis. i would call some of them very slight insults so they all the classics you better go to the kitchen and fix me

a sandwich. and it just gets worse from there of course. there are no boundaries i've been threatened with rape multiple times on the internet in these situations support from other players is rare. oh my. normal and nobody is really bothered anymore everyone just accepts it ok it's just another insult. not all gamers are racist. but the gaming scene in particular has a real problem one reason for that is a lack of moderators to oversee communication on the different platforms. it's a big problem and we see that gaming platforms and communities create spaces where this hatred and toxic communication are expressed openly unlike social media perpetrators don't really fear any consequences for their actions whether it's games or facebook i believe more action is needed to stop online hate speech the

game is seen as a problem but that doesn't mean that every should offend is prone to violence studies have refuted the killer game misconception still the aesthetics of 1st person shooter games have played a role in terrorist attacks there's even a term for it the game if occasion of tarot. these on live streams on twitch facebook seem from the 1st person shooter perspective the terrorist attacks in christchurch new zealand and tallit germany all recent examples of what experts call the game of terror the terrorist and even posted an achievement list online containing objective wanted to collect video game on. the terrorist posted that racist achievement list online to create a degree of comparability. to make a sport out of it to say hey look at my high score can you beat it. it's a form of game of occasion that tries to portray these horrific terrorist attacks

as playful and game like how have the boundaries between gaming and reality become so blurred for some people and how do others watch on with fascination. serious games is a term used by some expose to describe games used for educational purposes like teaching politics or history through the dockers of times is a game set in nazi germany and aims at raising historical awareness even one germany's most prestigious computer game award i thought it. was made in 1933 the masses was celebrating. we knew that this was the beginning. to come we knew that the nazis didn't make threats we had to do something this is the starting point in the strategy game through the darkest of times here players take on the role of resistance fighters some of the tasks include organizing the secret resistance against hitler recruiting new members raising money for

protesting this game doesn't need a 1st person shooter perspective to end the fatal paying back at the berlin based company behind the game uses gaming to make history more accessible in a playful way and that's just the beginning. of computer i believe that we're only just getting started with using computer games and the possibilities that they represent especially with education. i'm talking about exciting intelligent games that are fun to play that are educational but not in an obvious way. i believe that usage for these kinds of games will increase because we simply need them. whether it's historical facts. learning about right wing extremism like with leon's character or learning mathematical formulas whilst gaming. education and computer games are a good match. but leaving serious games aside for

a moment computer games are increasingly taking big social issues and even the future pages have picked up on this in fact many games can compete with hollywood movies. concept design and music it's amazing to see what game designers create nowadays have a look at this was. epic soundtracks played by an orchestra. voice service by famous musicians like. elaborate animations created with the latest hollywood technology games are no longer considered a lower cultural art form as director of the german cultural council the moment is a prominent figure in germany's cultural landscape in his handbook on gaming culture he argues that games can be more than entertainment. tell

a story different make the person dealing with the story feels like they're part of the story and have greater control over how the story unfolds. this real one example is sea of solitude a game created by german design economy. turns negative emotions like anxiety loneliness or depression into experiences in. my game is very metaphorical and full of symbolism it's my personal story it's the story of my life but i don't want it to be told like this happened that happened so i hide it in more abstract things you roam through this world and bit by bit you discover different parts of the story. kentucky roots 0 is a surreal game set in a mystical version of kentucky full of strange encounters the homeless that is based on the t.v. series twin peaks. character development

is becoming increasingly important in action games as well like in god for the newest game in the series the warrior craze hans has to deal with. the blockbuster video game than most of us too only has female protagonists and tells a story about love. games will not be able to get around the broader societal demand that shifting towards more diversity and representation. that's why i feel the gaming scene is still lacking when we're arguing among each other and it is a contentious debate we should also be debating it on panels and at podiums we should ask how could you create this character in this way what were you thinking have you ever thought about how this can impact society.

a broader discussion on games and their content would be helpful i think that in the near future games will be as important as movies or t.v. series which is why they deserve an equally as serious conversation for that same reason game designers and gaming platforms should be held accountable for tackling and removing hate speech what do you think games a cultural art form or are they just something with which to pass the time tell us on facebook or d w dot com and check out our you tube channel for more on gaming culture that's it for me for today thank you and used to.

go africa. animal conservation via a long chain of young software developers in south africa are making it possible takes away a lot of the bureaucracy and and surefire to walk people really care about glitches protecting the environment. you are able to find a lot of our conservation work directly through the concert. now for. next on t.w. . rain forest radio using a microphone any recorder to find exploitation train women are protecting the rain forest and courageous 3 point. companies are threatening to christians have attached to the radio women are preferred on people. 30 minutes w.

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a lot and stall for you on today's program so let's quickly take a look at what we have coming up. we investigate one place to go on lake victoria. see how on the intrepid new in cameroon this recycling banana trunks. and listen how women in the gambia are talking the country's huge plastic waste problem. what does block chain have to do with nature conservation. more than you might think now 3 young startup entrepreneurs in south africa have founded a crypto platform it allows users to trade digital on the balls and that helps the environment at the same time let's take a closer look at how it works. how the lions with nothing to worry about these big cats at the fin the game reserve in

south africa are protected but conservation initiatives like these cost money and driving up the nation's requires a lot of time and effort together with 2 friends and fellow nature lovers jason sims came up with an idea to make donating to animal conservation more attractive with the aid of modern technology all of us grew up in south africa and. all of us. experience the bush. love those experiences us as children and growing up we want to preserve that and we've all been following blocked technology for a while and to be able to put that together and merge those 2 passions was was really special for us the 3 friends live in cape town and work as software developers every transaction in their digital block chain can be carried out safely

and transparently most importantly it is recorded so what is their idea exactly all of our different conservation partners on the wild cards platform these conservations have certain types of animals and species that they look after and for every animal that they have we represent that is a unique digital artwork on the block chain that only one person can have and if you own this wild card you essentially pay a monthly amount to actually support that organization and you can see that money ascension flowing directly through to that organization these on the wild cards digital platform can buy and sell rare animal cards using crypto currency with each card there is a back story details of its purchase history and even a photo of the animal in some cases and then every month 20 percent of each card style skin prize is donated by its owner to

a conservation organization of their choice one of the 1st organizations to benefit is a while tomorrow fund and american ngo that wants to open up a corridor for wildlife migration in south africa the corridor will reconnect animal populations and in the pin the reserve and the east among the lisa wetlands park which are still divided by fencing. before the fencing can come down the corridor needs to be cleared of invasive vegetation. snellen test and the green members and all the landscape restoration crews are seeing to that. live the fact that. it's really important that we remove these plants. otherwise the animals eat them and could die. and they also get skin disease and sometimes. great canning is the general manager of baltimore a funded south africa the conservation organization who received more than 45000

euros in funding through wild cards the money went toward training to remembers and covering the costs of transforming what was once a pineapple farm into a wilderness area how it works do you not know unfortunately and what i do know is you know that we are able to fund a lot of our conservation work directly through cryptocurrency and and through organizations such as wild cards. while cards make supporting conservation simpler and more direct. because it takes away a lot of the bureaucracy and purifies a to what people really care about which is protecting the environment the wildlife in the pin the game reserve will certainly benefit if more funds are generated but walcott scientists are also aware of this attractive aspect of this game. block changer exactions consume large amounts of energy and have a huge c o 2 footprint around 30 kilos of carbon transaction you can uses

a lot of electricity and the size is concerning and i actually don't believe it's sustainable but also taking a step a step back if we were to use the traditional financial system we would be paying you know all of the resources of the bank employees driving to and from work and all the construction of those big buildings but it's a huge concern and we are going to reduce that as much as we can over time as as new technologies come out we'll move to those technologies that are more efficient so while cause has a dollar might get to solve finding a modern efficient way to help protect critically endangered animals without adversely contributing to the already critical climate crisis. from south africa to germany more precisely to the former borders that want to separate it east and west germany today more of the strip of land is a thriving nature reserve help and even some sightings of links some dry can you

tell us more well during the communist era this was a well guarded new populated stretch of mont but in the last 3 decades it's been reclaimed by nature we escorted a byword just on a trip to what used to be but humid summer boarder and is now an extraordinary biotope. this was once a heavily fortified border dividing east and west germany today it's the hunts national park one of germany's largest nature reserves the park has been overseen by biologist going to costa ever since its creation 30 years ago. the unique thing about this national park is that we're giving nature nearly 25000 hectares of space to do what it wants. it's rare to have such a large forest area with no connection to the timber industry. where nature is free

reign to show what it can do. back when the national park was created staff had to start from scratch a stretch of no man's land 100 meters wide was known as the death strip because the communist border guards were under orders to shoot anyone trying to cross in 1989 soldiers were still patrolling the border the barbed wire and concrete fortifications were practically insurmountable. and 3 decades later nature has filled the deathstroke with new life to build the birch trees have managed to prevail so many herbicides and pesticides were used here there's hardly anything would grow and yet so much has happened here in the past 30 years as a few. and it's not just the plants that are making a comeback several rare animal species are also reclaiming their natural habitats

a hidden camera has captured the latest arrivals. a lynx the predatory wild cat died out in this region around 200 years ago but today more than 100 animals have settled in the area thanks to the intervention of staff. there were links in the hearts region for a long time. until they were killed off by humans. they deserved to be back in the hearts and so we started reintroducing them in 1904 and 95 and to build on. it was a successful undertaking which took a lot of hard work the biologist has spent thousands of hours in the woods carefully documenting nature's campaign to recapture its territory along the former border. but staff at the national park are now facing their biggest challenge to date entries as far as the eye can see. there used to be huge spruces here

probably long drought and rising temperatures weaken the trees and bark beetles finish them off our journey continues onwards to the national parks highest point at 1100 meters above sea level we reach our destination the park and. this listening post which used to be sealed off was used by east german and soviet secret services to intercept communications in the west. today it's right next door to the botanists pride and joy a garden with hundreds of plants. this means that at least in part the park has returned to its original state over the past 30 years and that makes us really happy. but he's not done yet going to cost him plans to carry on until one day east and west have fully grown together again for good.

if he is a sailing board met from a 100 percent recycled plastic were reported on it when it was still under construction kenya now he is going on an awareness to own the what is a record korea and what their went on. from a distance it looks like a typical sailing boat but it's not it's actually made of recycled plastic objects and covered in repurposed flipflops inspired by the traditional dow trading vessels it was built on the kenyan coast and is now plying the waters of lake victoria. what's particularly unique about this one is that it is the world's 1st recycled plastic sailing down our hope over time is to create sector industry where people are able to build small boats traditional boats canoes. except are also from recycled waste so it's just showing you that you can push the boundaries of what is possible with waste materials. the idea was born on the island of lima virtually

car free the people here rely on donkeys carts and of course boats to get around for centuries local fishermen have built their own wooden doused a craft handed down from generation to generation. boat builder ali skandha and his team wanted to see if they could construct one of the traditional boats out of plastic. substituting wood with plastic posed a challenge. but it also has benefits. we save trees when you use this because every part of one piece of the tree so you're going to have a lot of trees. the islands coastline like coastlines all over the world is increasingly littered with plastic waste only part of which is generated by the islanders even more washes up on it shores. the boat builders and the community regularly collect plastic on the beaches and take it to

a recycling plant on the mainland to be processed. after being shredded the plastic is melted at a high temperature and molded in the shape of the boat frames. it's a great circulate color me to the waste we can here we process that separate the different kinds of plastic non-usable stuff. and ali and his team are doing a fantastic up putting together. the crew have already sailed from kenya to zanzibar in their plastic down and are now touring like victoria they hope their project will raise awareness of marine plastic pollution and inspire others to take action. staying with the topic of recycling over to come.

down to well. let's see. what environments. but not as grow fast but each tree only flowers and best fruit once. trees being harvested it's cut down and its trunk and leaves are left to decompose . cameroon produces about $4000000.00 tons of bananas a year. entrepreneur a man c.j. realized that banana trunks don't have to end up as waste but are a valuable raw material every month she buys some $300.00 banana tree trunks from local farmers the startup is based in the capital. she and her team peel fibers off the trunks. and then similar the strands of fiber for several

hours. the brew is then dried in the sun and processed into paper. for the walls i care about environmental work of doing something about the nation i say plastic bags littering the streets and blocking drains it's time to look for an alternative to plastic that's what motivates me. to see clearly in 50. company produces $100.00 eco friendly pieces of packaging per day and sells them to retailers for between $1.00 and $3.00 euros the product is 100 percent handmade and biodegradable. and how about you if you are also doing your bit tell us about it visit our website or send us a tweet. hash tag doing your best. we share your story. for our next report

we got to the many worse off in country it locks up a functioning system and west serious problem. everywhere in ri of us on fields and piled up in the streets a women's initiative is helping to reduce the amount of rubbish and also. while providing the women with some extra income. what he would remember is. so enjoyable because to be horny as women when ever they are committed they are committed and in any development in the home while women they are really on the bottom of the hour in anything and they never step back here with you know for stability. is they found out all day in geo women's initiative the gambia. at

a landfill mia ceases village these remain collecting discarded plastic glass and left over fabric dumped by local seamstresses if you know what to look for this plenty to be found my room susie was one of his 1st partners she remembers that there was some initial skepticism about the project the idea of women gaining financial independence. there were the not of either of you go on a decade when you started in 1000 to 7 my family thought i was crazy as a young married woman i was expected to get up in the morning cook food for my husband in the kitchen but my family and my husband had to watch me heading off to the dumping ground where they told me i wasn't a good wife they expected me to be home with my husband they had no idea what i was up to over by the better the good. at this time of the there's

not much grain in the central river region the days are parts and the rains wouldn't come for a few months but people still need to and i leaving one. day i'll tell you. it was a good trip to the members of the community and i never blame them for that because that's the mission and of the culture that we're living in what i already said culture is us reality one who. is about the situation that we are living and what fuels us men reading is not a problem what women also today they have a right to lead. because they are contributing. there is settling center in the village of joe where is a to see comes from was the 1st in the gambia she employed just 5 women to begin they'll collect and clean up all plastic bags and then move them into attractive usable ones today up to 20000 people across the country walk with or for all.

they produce briquettes soap bags jewelry and toys some of the best selling items are passes made from reclaimed plastic. village banks a look after the money and buy the women groups around the country so it doesn't all go towards the household spending. we want to empower them and want to play in them on economic how big an economy little that they have so when they receive them one is from the filth of the process if it is $100.00 you have to sit back and tell us how much you want to do want to tick or whatever happens you have to put someone into here because we are planning for them all. when easier to see who was growing up this area was covered with mahogany and occasion trees the 1st ration and climate change have transformed the landscape into an arid step. funded by donations the women's initiative also started a project called the forest the future what from

a well era gets the newly planted seedlings along with indigenous trees like mahogany the women a growing mongol and coconut trees this up a still in a tree nursery but will eventually be distributed across the country. you want to make a change. be 100 percent sure that it will never be overnight and then you have to have an expectation that if it is 100 people living within your area 75 percent will see a nor at the beginning but let that be a motivation for you let everybody tried to make sure that whatever you are establishing let it be a reality and it is helping to sort of i. know 2 years ago we visited a horse farm gunnoe whose livelihood was under threat due to increasingly poor

harvests recently we were taught to see how things develop that's right sandra we'll make off with our cocoa farmer again and followed up but there is no watch while when this in his village about him for thousands of protecting the environment and the forest. saplings in full bloom. some of the pods are already nearly ripe for. orlando's manu is expecting a rich cocoa harvest this year. we're. very fast it's not like what we used to plant. it would take the old cocoa seeds for years to bear fruit. but with these it's only 2 years that's really fast for us. it means we can all enjoy it and make money earlier.

and. it wasn't always like this 2 years ago the trees were hit by a disease called swollen shoot virus which left harvests ruined. but 6 trees were inches only problem he also had to look on while part of his land was cleared to make way for a path. all this is part of the farm i planted cocoa planting and everything here just like in the other parts but the timber contractors cleared it and didn't give me anything white farmers in the be a district know how important their trees are for the climate and keep the soil healthy felling trees leads to drier conditions that in turn leaves the trees more vulnerable to past like these ants. or. is dealing with infestation but he has

a trick to. block it in this way no air gets to the ends and they die inside. simple and effective. but just as things were starting to look up for him and his family the coronavirus struck raising fears about how the disease will impact his business. it's become a problem covert has really worried us if i say it hasn't be lying. before you could rely on selling small amounts or at least nothing but if buyers don't come you have no choice but to live with that worry. we're really suffering here. you know what it's not. farmers like orlando often have trouble accessing loans because their holdings are too small jesus collateral now

a local savings initiative has been established to help out and desist farmers in weathering the pandemic. orlando was among those who attended a training session on financial management no doubt after. they knew when to get their funds it takes about 3 years or more before their farm start foot in. another starts would you put it wise to copy from a sense to see how they got support of farmers through happy that you faced before the food starts. putting. orlando's hoping to use the loan to expand and develop his plantation he wants to be ready for what happens after the pandemic. the improved prospects said even prompted his son adama who seemed to consider quitting his job as a teacher to give farming a go himself

a long time soon another friend who didn't have much. to the family was going. to live with that one from day from someone comes from your. family. a new generation and a good harvest in sight for orlando's money things are looking up. we have reached the end of this edition of equal africa and you've seen so many ideas that can help us protect the environment and also in our lives but for now the time has come for me to say goodbye i am sundered we know we are from kampala here in uganda. bye sun dried look forward to seeing you again next week and good bye to all of you have you also all this well but you be sure to tune the next week on till then buy from me chris lamb in lagos nigeria.

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