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the, on the moon as we take on the world, the, we're all about the stories that matter to the whatever nice my follow on fire made for mines. ah, the garbage, too much of the landfill smell, the terrible smell is showing an open pit the paint, the city black dust is the town i used to be. my face is dirty and dirty river water that comes out of pipes unfiltered.

drink this dirt, the clay, and the in russia, soil, air and water a polluted and all 3 environmental issues remain unresolved. the the union said a saver and her 2 children alia and dearest lover on their way to their grandmother . valentine, this sunday is their only free day. they hope the wind will be good to day. so the air that grandmother's isn't too unbearable. valentino lives in the town of nova she provo, union of saver grew up here. but eventually the stench made her leave. over them because of all i will tell nearby, nearby in this case is just 500 meters from her old house. the alex inskeep,

it in the town of nova approval, is one of the dozens of garbage dumps on the outskirts of moscow expense. 32, hector has well 45 soccer fields or you need to see this is on sundays. the stench outside was so bad that she could not windows with my eyes were done then my throat wouldn't i not feel noisy. yes. when you leave, children also started feeling sick often that the she took action, the family left no voice over and moved to clean 7 kilometers away when the youngest was always sick. one day there patricia told me, your children have rattling sound in their lungs. i don't think long then i started looking for an apartment to clean. after the moonlight, she went to the same doctor and surprise, surprise, long rattling had disappeared. couldn't she asked how?

and i said simple. we moved some 3800 kilometers to the east, auto mechanic metalli. shesta cough stumbled upon what looks like the marble slabs that they aunt italy shasta cough, lifting casella of siberia. it snows here all winter. the snow, the falls from the sky here is often black from the coldest colors, attorneys house and garden shades of black grey and white logs. that will call if you can take our and sprinkle ground up pencil, lead onto it, where you can the same effect. you see here, black on white, when i build off because a medium sized city it's economy relies on open. pit mining is dramatic. the city is located in coast bass. a coal mining region referred to as russia's plant on some windy days. a small get so bad residents they,

they struggled to breathe according to studies by and n g o. twice as many people die of respiratory diseases here and elsewhere in russia. italy shesta cough and his neighbors have had enough of living conditions and he was one and a half years ago, they filmed the black snow and salt asylum, and canada. we do not want our children to die of cancer caused by the terrible environment i will get some stunning was the canadian prime minister was very far away, reacted to a video faster than our own authority to mess foreign leaders ignored. and then later our governor react, is that right is of the home country and the cause bass region reverted broad deal at the school bus at 4 and a half 1000 kilometers away in southern russia. vailable fundraiser has different

concerns. who are the moscow the going to it? so when know which comes from the tap and we probably try with helps out here. and this is what comes out in the village. maturing square. there's a joke that goes cocoa coffee, who cares if it comes from the tap. maturing school directly along the cool down river in the region of the same name with this brown's juice. water that comes directly from the cuban a far cry from the clear filtered water. you'd expect to come out pipes, you can use it for washing or drink it. we have to let it stand at home and then boil it you it. like carrying buckets of brown water from the roadside pump has long been a daily task for residence of lamont, of street and maturity squire,

this 2 story house does have water pipes. the pressure is often so low. they prefer to pump their water themselves. it doesn't matter where you can anyway, that's all the water and mature. and squire comes from the crude on when that's flooding, the water turns into grayish brown sludge, which then into maturity, coils, pipes, nearly unfiltered. residents leave the water to stand the large containers. so the dust settling afterwards, the water is a bit cleaner, but just a bit or even re balcony is retired. he can't remember the last time he drank pretty clean water from the top. compared to the same stuff and getting has since 975. and that's how long we've had the struggle. some people boil the water,

but i've done it. i need to pick just that it's cook with, with it only when he gets really grows to drink, clean store, bought drinking water in the last quarter. it's doable. waters expensive and the pension doesn't have much money. even belkin has to spend up to $3000.00 roubles a month on purchased drinking water, but a 3rd of his pension, which is barely enough to make ends meet back to the federal, sever family. on their way to visit her mother with her children, julia meets neighbors campaigning against the landfill. they managed to pressure the environmental agency to measure the quality of the tests revealed a level of hydrogen sulfide 25 times higher than what is permitted. the activists went to court, but to no avail. the stinking mountain of garbage in nova approval is one of several. russia is plagued by waste disposal probably. only 4 percent of waste is

recycled, and 2 percent is incinerated. the rest is simply dumped with nearly $70000000.00 tons of waste a year. the largest country in the world is drowning a garbage, an environmental. it's warm that the landfills around moscow, a ticking time bombs, the direction of the winds, isn't determining factor jury duty feder service visits to see her mother. 67 year old valentino pover has not moved. celia get some vitamins, come, drink some tea and have some sausage, but hurried over the kids. happy to see that grandmother, but because her house is next to the dump, the trips are kept brief to limit the danger. i feel like this tool sometimes when i lie down, i feel like someone's poured water down my throat. i can hardly breathe,

coughing closely to the cups. immature in school. many resigned to the cloudy tap, water, older resident, still recall how during soviet times. those soft costs here, state owned large scale farm with its own canned food factory. the government not only controlled food production, but ensured that the water used for the factory underwent of least rudimentary cleaning. ringback the pen, the soviet union collapsed, and with it, the purification system runs from last ventures up, but they used to be big containers at the exit of the town where water from the river stood before being conveyed to the village bustle. with scarlet shore, new leaders came and ravaged the system and now money. now these containers of loan stopped working no longer able to clean the river water according to an order by the nature conservation authority,

some water pipes in the town of maturity, sequoia and now 90 percent cloaked with mud from the river. plus the cuban river is polluted. environmentalists action is urgently required against bacteria and chemicals. we asked local authorities whether such measures were planned and what pollution levels are the receive no response. the. the operators of the garbage dump inova, she also failed to respond to our inquiry, but we did receive a response from the vice governor of the cooper's region, stating the authorities were doing everything possible to minimize mining petition from resettling households to installing modern air filter system to me that equality still makes life and cons to off to learn is living from mining. nearly half industrial waste in russia is here

in this region could pass and siberia kiss. eli, often at 86000 residence, is one of the hardest in cities. many waste products from coal production contained burning toxic and radioactive substances. those who live here refuse to leave their health in the hands of coal produces and protests time and time again. even if it does little to change things, the vice governors words may sound promising that they ignore reality, says auto mechanic. baton shasta cough was sell. our lead is couldn't care less about all this black snow for mining variable like many here he wants to leave. that's not easy. providence leo, when i'd like to sell my house, i can't feel if you can get rid of an apartment, but not

a whole house for 2. and only 2 people have responded. even rebuttal kim doesn't want to move away. he's come to terms with the bad water quantity. a few times a month he treats himself too expensive, drinking water in store bought water jugs. look at the make sure not to heat too much, because then i get so thirsty, you have to drink the dirty river water. although i'm quite used to it now, as long as it's hollowed. meanwhile, the cruise pass government intends to increase coal production. and the alex in ski pit and novice approval is set to be expanded. plus water consumption will rise in mature in school during the hot summer, meaning more brown sludge from the coupon. and so all 3 environmental issues will persist here in russia.

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china, sixty's. to 45 minutes on w. o. in the change africa. what's in store with here? what do they have for their future? w dot com, african megacity multimedia insight. click consider me . hello and welcome to another edition of the 77 percent. this is the show for africa. you'd like you and i wherever you're watching from your host, eddie mike, a junior so this will show will focus on education. how do you keep students and children in school? yes. what's coming up? how street the big team is in south africa to find out why so many students are dropping out of school. will also meet

a group of campaign at the northern lights area. we're trying to bring kids back into the classroom and check out a molly on rap on who is encouraged, and i've a young woman to pick up the my now cobit 19, have made life difficult, and education has been hit hard. the pandemic has kept children across the world out of school for several months. some have been missed a whole year of school, or the un estimates that nearly 24000000 children and youth may drop out or not have access to school this year. due to the plan that makes, he cannot make impact alone. so how have schools and students been faring so far across the continent? we asked our correspondence to tell us about the state of education in the countries bubble is regarded as one of the countries with the highest liter. it's

raised in africa. it's 89 percent. many young gannons once the government to address to invest in quality. if your question was there, i was facing that nature cation crisis. education is regarded as one of the was greatest achievement, forced in 1000 a, to independence from great britain. this school here is a good example of the investment that the country has made in education. but now zimbabwe is regarded as one of the countries with the highest literacy rates in africa. it's 89 percent out in education is not free or public school fees control another milestone as been the girl child education. it is estimated that 52 percent of women are graduating from universities with a high level qualification. in uganda, most young people are not happy with their education system. they criticize their

policy or examining their ability to crum prieto's answers rather than the ability to create solutions to real life problems. many employers see that they have to retrain graduates because they find an average many of them without the immediate cues in a really small job market. now this is what many young gannons want to government to address, to invest more in quality education, which can strategically skill ugandans who can be higher able. but most importantly, those who can create jobs niger, i facing that nature cation crisis. on paper, the country has free and compulsory primary education, but that's the 600 different story. niger as out of school children is the highest in the world. and around that 50 percent of the population is in the treats for one

. they are not enough public schools. students often have to walk long distances to get to school. classrooms are usually to pass and many of the schools i'm not even well equipped off one bed. in the off, almost half of the girls don't go to school at home. and the ones who go to primary school, i'm married off before they get the chance to secondary school or university. and then the insecurity period brining down schools. and he's not been teach us to then the niger and government has been criticized for not paying enough attention on schools in the country. so as expected, different countries have their own challenges when it comes to the state of education. but some are feeling the impact even more as we had from mike lee close to clara in the area. right now, the country is facing an education crisis, according to the united nations. every 5th child that is not in school live in my

area. now let's take a closer look at kind of state and north in my area, which has the highest number of out of school children in the country. the basic education is a fundamental human right. but here in min chica village in northern nigeria, con state, many children are found on the farm or playing on the street instead of in the classroom. units. mussa is the co founder of the give north education campaign, which advocates basic education for all. not just the privilege few for you not helping rural kids access education is the key to progress. i feel very bad about education in northern and yet i've been on dallas just why? because i believe that it's only education that can bring white people out of darkness. without this education, there wouldn't be a real quick to any achievement. this education is about one of every beloved nation,

those who can afford to send their children to private schools in the city. but that's not an option here in min chica. they are very few schools in the area and most are in a terrible state. well, and then we'll get into well, no one will have one in my school. there are no toilets desk or even chairs in the kingery. the school is also very far from my home. the one with the on the wall. i think teachers are dedicated, but it's very hard to learn with nothing to help us a lot more than i will god, that the mobile the the, them on the level along with those. i'm either going to feel or don't good them. but the lack of infrastructure isn't the only problem, not everyone here recognizes the value of formal education,

skepticism of western style, learning, the belief that girls don't need to be educated, and regional instability have created a difficult environment for learning to thrive. that way eunice comes in, he's working to raise awareness about the importance of education beyond koran x schools. open communication with the local chiefs and village eldest is a vital part of units of work. and it seems to be having an impact, according to my cheek as chief that he doesn't care. we took a long, we used to write letters to parents and delivered them house by house to encourage the children to go to school. today they take them to school voluntarily because we now value western education. while concluding, sometimes the children here even take themselves to school to enroll, but still no call. the main thing discourage in school. attendance is the distance from the to the village. when you send over the past

3 years, give north education has reached out to over 500 rural communities. but units still wants to do more by the 202030. where wants to make sure that every child from not and then to that is given. i did julie wright of education, we want to make sure this happens in the condo state. government recently made basic education free and compulsory and maybe change is on the horizon. i do hope it's not a may be and that change is actually on the way. my area is not the only country facing a problem of school dropouts. for africa school system has been described as one of the most an equal systems in the world. these figures show that it has the why it has got in the quality of education between its top and low schools. this has contributed to students dropping out of school at an early age. are st debates,

takes us to the alexandria township of hon, is back to understand the reasons behind this problem. yeah, michael league was to see when to made it to john g. lead in the discussion the. the 77 percent is coming to you from alexandra township. which is located on the ragged edge of sense in africa is richest square mile. this community is the opposite of that. it is mod by high unemployment poverty, as well as corruption. perhaps it is the perfect location to debate south africa as education system, as well as it's battle with the high dropout re in schools across the country. about 40 percent of all grade one learners will leave the schooling system before finishing grade 12. so what is behind this problem? i want to put that to a panel of experts well versed in today's discussion. and i want to begin the

conversation with ry humor. we know that a drop out is not a singular event. nobody wakes up with a burning desire to leave school. in the public, imagination, dropout is often thought of as or a dropout is often thought of as someone who is lazy or responsible and has no interest in school any way. that is not what we have found. instead, dropout is comes at the end of a long process of disengagement in which a young person is pushed of pulled out of school because of factors in their home school community environments. so internal and external factors. this is where i want to bring you in, in your view, what is you know, behind the high dropout rate in south africa? i think, i mean, involve ago, we can talk of any crisis without talking about the social economy clinicians that define ourselves in. but we're talking about lynn as we have to choose between survival and staying in school was sitting today in alex and one of the community that has high level of child headed households. so these kids have to choose

whether do i go to school or find new sustenance to support me? you know, young simply. so what i'm hearing a sound from them is that there is a relationship between the high dropout rate that we seeing in south africa with poverty. do you agree? yes. i do agree, and you will take on that. you find that in the classroom, you have maybe 70 in this and this one teacher. and you can be a teacher that is trying to intervene when you have it with 70 limis. that's why a lot of kids go to the education system and then east. because no one has time to really focus on one minute to find out whether the big thing was one of the kidding . when they come to school, that pressure also imploded on you when you were in school and you decided to quit . what compelled you to do that, so it's actually exposed to gangs is drug abuse as well. and what is the result of that? well,

there is also that might end up being with the wrong crowd ended up being addicted to drugs actually. and what happened was we did a housebreaking which went wrong and actually went to prison for 2 years for that. and while i was in prison, i actually get my thoughts and did some interest section whatever the reasons, policies are important. and the department of education, or even government, has implemented a number of policies over the years. the question is, why aren't they working? i want to put that question to them. i think firstly, we must just to make it clear that the department has decided to ignore this problem. and that's why it has been getting worse and worse. so who should be holding the department accountable? i think across society we've all, if not this problem, i don't think it's just that department. there hasn't been a strong conceited campaign to say accommodates. we have

a problem here. how do we mitigate? all right, let's hear from landy. what's your take? so i think i must say something interesting about the society, ignoring the dropout, the numerous strikes that took place within the community and zandra. but the government ignored that. so the were initiated that were taken by the students to change what is happening within the public schools within alexandra. so i could say that the society didn't really ignore the whole dropout rates, but rather the dropout became a norm due to the ignorance of the government. i'm interested in zooming into learning behavior, right. are we holding young people accountable? very same young people who we know can be problematic in schools, disturbing costs and so forth. no one comes out of alexandra and is seen as a good person. no one, no one comes available under the good person. so already holding a student accountable for certain behavior,

it's quite unreasonable to do that because already you have categorized him so you can't expect something from someone of which you have already categorized so. so we've spent a good amount of time establishing what the problem is and issues related to that, but i'm more interested in the solutions. do you think that you are empowered enough to come up with the solution to this very big problem? yes. as students who can have all the complaints and take them to the teachers, but it's not within us to to change them. after all, the other ones who are guiding us up to post this nation school and stuff. we rely on the teachers to be the ones who actually help us. so expecting students to be the ones who come up with the solution is, is somehow unfair to the students who can isn't enough to just save that. you know, the, the responsibility rests on students, on parents. how do we then get to the solution? and i want to hear from you, gracious, oh, i think it boils down to collaborate,

collaborating together, and i think teachers, some teachers have really did that. because if i go back to my history at school, when i was doing grade 5, i was unable to read until i was moved to another school. what if, what there the teacher was available for me. she sat down with me better from scratch, taught me devolves, and the consonant. and here i am. now, i was the top lena from the 8, up until 12 now, i mean visit to student, and i think that is the perfect way to wrap up this conversation. and this debate, what we have established is that this debate is far from over. it is complex, it has many size, but it's going to need effort from government the n g o civil society, families to come together and try find a solution. and this is not where it ends and really has to continue. and i'm hoping that you will take part in commenting on what you've heard so far and give us your take on this topic. this was the 77 percent out in alexandra township. my

name is c local med date, she's on the thank you with the way that was a great debate. now we're also interested in what's good or bad about the education system in your country. so if you're watching this on youtube, please comments below and don't forget to subscribe. let's now go to molly for our next reports which dukes other countries music scene. now molly is known more for its traditional core music with musicians, likes at least k topple almost on godaddy. so what might be that a young woman to become in rappa? to find out, let's me, molly's biggest, the mo, rappa. i me, you're a wall. i mean, that's hard on your also known as a meet your as molly's 1st and most famous female wrap up. the 29 year old from my

book into the in that is still very much male dominated by the judge until monday. so i can see that i don't know if it was wrapped in our societies, you know, something that is not for children who have a good education. because rapids you know, something that is not respected up on to coffee. and when you're a woman, even worse in from like down coffee and i'll stick in woman, it's not easily accepted. i missed own from you, but i rather seen him married and tried to pressure her into ending his music. would they be like i would highly one, but at some point i couldn't hide anymore. funny. there was so many things you can do this. he caught it. it was like you said, i thought it wasn't compatible with the artist life. i wanted to have it deducted. that's why i left for sure. but my buddy, due to me, started here korea in 2010. she wants to make songs about issues. people can relate to live a dick if it was only coming up. when i wrap i to talk about all the difficulties i went through and about all the things in my society that influenced me. the

problems lately, when i speak about children's rights of violence against women, for example. i speak about those molly and realities around me, which are often also african reality. 40 do. do african that album coming up soon. i meet your wellness building, an international fellow, and now she wants to encourage young women to take control of the mike. i didn't bad once a year. i mean organizes the festival luma lee, d rappers. the program includes concepts, what shops and a competition for female for my family as the busing. i remember 2 years ago they weren't at this level. now i see been performing live and it's very encouraging. i feel motivated, i'm really happy to see those tonight. what 18

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lou. the boy. oh boy. all the models. oh, he needs to be equal rights and justice. that was rachel m thinking about the better future for girls on the woman across africa. talking about the do you have a plan for yours? i hope that was a yes. we asked young people from different countries what they want to do with the future.

my goal is to work on my and perfect. my goal is to be an amazing actress and also get to actually be an international locks. i don't mind. i'm one of us is like you can do whatever you want to add whatever you can experiment. and it's like another way to do everything that i do, my bill will be done. the one, maybe one, and we're not that many of them based on great sharing the same you know, nice logic logic logic

around. i need to be lazy on the all my dream when everyone lives and she then can you find the situation whereby a daughter or son wants to do tv? what to do? read you what he wants to get into drama. let's talk. but the parent just was the key to be a lawyer for a doctor. so i just one country to be able to reach a place where the parents can be able to embrace that, eat as a 4th bedroom come through instead of them having to dream for decades,

whatever they want to do. i also dream of a place where we can all be who or what we want to be as always, we want to hear from you. so head about all social media pages and tell us about your hopes and ambitions. and you should definitely check out our brand new instagram page. it's d, w underscore 77 percent. you can also send an email to 77 dw dot com. i hope you enjoy the show, but it's time to wrap up. we'll leave you with some music from me you will with head track bomba. i eddie micah junior units 5 live right down the

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