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a tweet. hash tag doing your best. your story. for our next report we got to the many west african countries functioning system on the west serious problem. everywhere in ri of us fields and in the streets a women's initiative helping to reduce the amount of rubbish and also. providing the women with. income. a working woman is so enjoyable because to be one is woman. committed and in any development into one. really. in anything and they never. get one. you know pushed to the limit.

is or to c.c. is they found out on the injury on women's initiative the gambia. at a landfill mia ceases village these remains are collecting discarded plastic glass and left over fabric down to buy 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 and the idea of women gaining financial independence. there were the neck of either of you go out of there when it started in 1907 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 only girl i woke up at the beginning. of this time of the there's not much growing in the center group i rejoin the days a halt and the rains wouldn't come for a few months but people stayed need to and i living one. day i knew. it was a quick trip to the members of the community and i never blamed him for that because that's the mission and that's the culture that we're living in what i already said culture is off. the idea 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 rights to lead because they are contributing. there is settling center in the village of joy where is that to see comes from was the 1st in the gambia she employed just 5 women to begin with they'll collect and clean up all plastic bags and then move them into attractive

usable ones to date up to 20000 people across the country while we or for all. they produce briquettes soap biogs gennari 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 their households paling. we want to empower them and want to clean them on economic how you can economy little that they have so when they receive them one is from the silver of deposit if it is $100.00 you have to sit back and tell us how much we want to do want to tick or whatever happens you have to put someone into here because we are planning for tomorrow. when is not to see if it 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 forests the future what turned from a well era gets the newly planted seedlings. along with indigenous trees like mahogany the women are growing mongol and coconuts he's. still in a tree necessary 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 one that people living within your area $75.00 but then we see ignore at the beginning. that's for you let everybody tried to make sure that whatever you are establishing let it be in reality i need to.

know 2 years ago we visited a poor farm and got no whose livelihood was on death rates due to increasing the poor harvests recently we were time to see how things develop that's right sondra will make off with our cocoa farmer again i followed up but there is no much war when i was in this village a balding fortunes of protecting the environment and the forest. saplings in full bloom. some of the pods are already nearly right. orlando's mondo is expecting a rich cocoa harvest this year. where. grows very fast it's not like what we used to plant. it would take the old coco 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. 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 sick trees weren't his only problem he also had to look on while part of his land was cleared to make way for a path. and 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. get 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 reason 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 i mean no doubt after my pro 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 link up the fund i sensed and to see how. what if i'm most happy that you faced before the food starts and start 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 a dam of who seemed to consider quitting his job as a teacher to give farming a go himself. a lot consume a lot of improvement out of my clothes he would be good food to the family i don't mean some of the food and certainly wouldn't get money from going from one income source want to harm me and running aground now i'm going after i think i'm going to pull a family a new generation and a good harvest in sight for. things are looking up. we have reached the end of this edition of equal africa us 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 we know we'll welcome paula here in uganda . bye sun dried look forward to seeing you again next 3 and goodbye to all of you

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