a game changer for gardeners, cocoa farmers about 60 minutes on dw, we've got some hot tips for your bucket list. magic corner with some great cultural memorials to boot w, travel. we go. it's the holiday season. merry christmas to all of you from the 77 percent. my name is wendy camara. let's get this party started with christine or not. we are well and truly into the festive season here at the 77 percent. i mean,

just look at what we have prepared for you. we definitely had some very special christmas trees in dallas capital, la, illinois, our guys often we bought a child headed household and cut the ve. i don't think id ross shows us off in have beautiful town play. yeah. christmas is an important holiday for millions of people around the world. but not everybody celebrates in the same way. some people go to church, others put up a christmas street or have a big feast with a family. so we asked our correspondence across the continent. how do you celebrate your christmas? take a look. if you want to enjoy the festive, busy in ghana, then laura terminals our truck dro stations are no locally just like this one yet. in acura i, it's set off point because for those who spend most of the year in the city,

it is time to spend the holidays with really thieves and loved ones in that village of calls, churches to have the pixies, as to what she pets all over the country are fill in the auditorium of the various churches and what, what did be without it beach, the across the country, families and young people will spend time picking the key and having a drink. so you see there was enough room for everyone to make merry this christmas season. christmas is a big dealing camera, but the build up to christmas even bigger. this is the period where a lot of people want to achieve their live goals. so many people want to get married just before christmas while others want to move to a new property. african families are large. so in the re dos to a lot of money, not just to buy support for the immediate family members, but also for

a long list of extended family members. so everyone can have a happy christmas celebration. it's beginning to look a lot like christmas in my country, namibia just like here in germany, the christmas lights are up in the capital vintage. and the motor decorated with different ornaments and so many lights. but the facilities don't happen in a capital. vintage families are gearing have to travel to the villages or funds to visit the grandparents or relatives and enjoy some quality time together. they'll be so much food salad, some proper meek and bry. don't forget the music of that is the christmas bad amos christmas income. paula is mainly about mary making. no one understands that be done. the business community christmas time is about the cone all business. if you want to mark my view of what you need to go, formulate shopping for the festive season,

but also christmas income. paula is like i'm exhibits as a formulas travel to the countryside to celebrate together. but i know where to go back to one thing you've gotten christmas is about food to many of us christmas, we've got a big meal. is not worth it. and yeah, lagos nigeria, dawning places the decorations such as these i made up part of christmas celebration. but it was gonna look like this is how many nitrous especially leave us thought christmas celebration many. and i just come and go to be the reason what it was after christmas in the country on the hustle and bustle of life, a little entertainment of these records will brighten our lives on it's not about you.

i love seeing how either 77 percent as much this holiday season in 10. yeah, i would pique, family get togethers of the typical way to mock the season. you know, people traveling a country to spend time with the parents, the grandparents and extended family. but this he is christmas might look different for many of us across the continent. skyrocketing prices and inflation have put a damper on celebration. so we asked you on social media, how has your christmas been impacted? nathan from nigeria save the economic hardship really changed my christmas plant to travel to the village to celebrate. but it's not possible any more we have to make do with the verbal and changing jobs from the barrier save since the 14 year long civil war ended, christmas has been what celebrating,

but that's not the case now because the economy is paralyzed and because of but governments, there is, but living conditions for the poverty stricken masses. thanks so much for sharing with us. i really hope you have a wonderful christmas despite these challenges. now, when it comes to christmas trees, there are many different models in the market. and we found a very special type in gunners capital, a cra. these young onions are busy working on a festive project to name the building a christmas tree. what up twist, this tree is made entirely out of plastic bottles. mac, awfully. our crew is a brains behind the idea, dark rubbish. environmental activist already knows a thing or 2 about up cycling. for the festive season, he likes to top into his creative side. he mobilizes young people in his community to build these christmas trees as an alternative to the traditional kind. all of

these plastic bottles come from tom sites. residents who want to lend a helping hand, can also bring via empty bottles to our woocommerce workspace in a crop. once the bottles have been sorted out, guessed to wet, prepare them for their new life as a tree. then his helper spread them carefully from both ends with a rope and fastened them around the would be cheese, metal bulls, the founder and c. u of the sustainability and g and lock in touch. africa has been running this project for 6 years now. it's become something over christmas tradition for communities around a craft as the town may or something last come to stay empty for aspect fans are with at the end of every year. and what we do is want to make sure that the plastic window lagwen and wrapping their moment to was we are recycling that. he also creates an upside code installation that we believe our par for advocacy too. so

keep influencing people's behavior once they are ready. yup. cycled plastic christmas cheese are displayed across the city for everyone to enjoy. they are not your typical christmas vibe, but that's also the point. it's no mean feat. eda, every tree takes between $4.00 and $6.00 eyes to build using a total of $1200.00 plastic bottles. each for volunteers like more, it's worth every minute. so the fact that we are contributing a change to the environment and the fact that we also help and reduce the results which are plastics go boxing it. go backing to the ocean and on our streets. that is what's motivate for us all the time and, and keep us more ginger to do more of this. but it's a night when the trees beauty really comes alive. they are covered with festive lights, drawing the attention of locals like a moth to a flame. they are obviously

a big hit with the community. there are mirandi the way they arrange the button to a christmas tree is very nice. with god, i prefer this type of christmas tree to normal cheese. the way they have been built it is very attractive. i have bought this machine, i like introduced a new way of like a christmas g. there's plastic, which is now becoming a now a new way of celebrating christmas. you can buy one of these christmas trees for yourself, although it will set you back anywhere between 300 to 500 years. but what the echo minded, these plastic trees make a great gift for the environment, and are a whole different flavor to the you time. celebrating christmas with climate change in mind, a creative solution and yet another reason why the 77 percentile simply rock.

now what would be christmas without some present? well, i got myself a little gift. what did you get to laugh one? help of some custom sneakers, south african sale. below you forward his 1st collection of mexico because from the trunk of his car in the tough johannesburg tub alexandria noble. he owns one of africa's only. gen winston. he cut bronze. let's rock those cheeks. i always need to think that excellent and greatness comes from joy, 5 things. but if you read and look at the people that are grading the ones you're always had a call to set. i simplifies one job. one job that provided for me in my family, instead of a business that provided for 300 prof more families in the back room and the depth of a very good township, commonly known as gomorrah by the local, was we field 1st week edition was born,

feels own draining to create and the premium sneak, a brand is one alive with the purpose of re ignited the community sought after guys learn to be a very good country. 11 languages, you know, different ways of speaking, different ways of clothing, more thoughts and different cultures. but the wet body doesn't matter whether you speak, thought not in the mail is yulu, or whether you come from the way to alexander, visa, it is always known to be issues. so i thought whether we take this, conceptualize it into a sneak of brands and tells us beautiful until sort of going through the world. it's in this township says feel started selling perfume drinking university to re file for his tuition fees. but from this castle can make me, which he has to put in the 2 heavy work you're at university, he only pick up the positive from his experience. i really enjoy it. you know, on the art of hustling, engaging with people. and i knew that for me there's a calling more than anything ask. i was question about sneakers used to buy of

sneakers and business. same essays. if you're buying too much of something, why not on it? you know, and i know 2015. i had a such a valuable collection of sneakers, but something was missing out of that collection. no, i'm apparently african sniggle brand. i was, i wanted the greater push me to use my life that proposed me to the person that i am, but showed me to be the leader that i am today who was supposed to be. he's amazing because people in the neighborhood look up to but big away now a lot. has there been to my junior promotions trainings? we get benefits like the chip when it comes out of the car. it took 30 rejections from various factories before the fields. first, mission edition sneaker was launched. pushing for formation, the car was a risk that's of the termination. as mesh is used mainly as a component of a shoe and not to make up the bulk of the shoot, what kept me going, it was my reality in the i g and the impact that can come out of all of this vision that i had thinking about what could be done more so it was even beyond and far

beyond just the product and the idea, i knew that we can use this as a special sort of purpose. we had called the not impact change to create employment and so forth. so that's what kept going in the time. field. grand plan of expansion has included a number of secret customization labs and opportunity for the public to give this meeting their own personal time. this is all a dream that got in their room in alex, where i used to do everything else myself packed the shoes, put them in the car, go to leave our do p r. interviews to local shoe 1st as a dance. i think i'll just get through. i could for the time. okay. this nick has definitely rock. but christmas shouldn't be about commerce and present. the real spirit of christmas is to be around your loved ones. but not everybody is lucky enough to spend christmas with the family. in my law,

we 17 percent of the children are orphans and left on their own. i will guard off mute. we bought them at 14 year old esther who has taken up the role of a parent to her younger siblings. in my lowie, nearly 17 percent of kids. my age or younger are all friends and vulnerable. in fact, a 1000000 of them have lost their parents to h i v and add that unit to day out up to as a remarkable 14 year old who despite being a child as self as taken, there are of the parents to i under siblings after they lost the mom and their dad remarried in, lived them alone. i'm alyssa banda in the long before gill as of newt. ah, okay. when did you start taking care of your siblings? linda? my, my, when my mother passed away, i was only 6 years old than our father, married another woman, and left us alone in

a rental house. that is when we started living alone linen melanie to merkel day given that your child yourself, how has it been taking care of them? blanche is immer turbo. it is not easy, but doable. i cook clean wash and do every thing that a child needs. i have no choice since there is no one to take care of us in m a n. i am in emory entity and to some, are you ever taken advantage of because of your situation to work with you, you've been out a bit. sometimes we are abused verbally and emotionally, let them occur, run all on my. we are called all sorts of names such as beggars or street children . sitting galen members who are you all in? do you have any advice for other children in the same situation as you, my luciana sienna, i'm in m a castle coast galka, letting me michela from india were new to all i can say to them is to work hard in

school so that they can become better citizens and also they should pray and love god, et cetera. zacalo attendees underway, jenny, i know also as to the in pin our other speak. don't want to use foundation and organization. keen to care for child headed homes, leg esters. they noticed how as daw struggling with her siblings and stepped in in 2018 and what sort of support do provide basically its financial support. as for this, this kids we support them with rent food from $1.00 to $30.00. we make sure they're okay if they have was better abuse, we have to pay for them and stuff like that failed early. is there anything else you'd like to address about child headed families? or we can do show them some support in love. it may not be that you give them food, but at least the fact that you're there for them is good enough in not being taken . edwin teacher. that's how we wrap up our discussion on child headed families while i had many degrees. so please de la has a dead blessing, of course,

for music because i'm pretty sure that someplace near you, you can, as is did anything from ford to basic needs to education and so forth. so do anything to jab the faces of these kids. i melissa banda in the logo for gears of mute, seeing the next one in the holiday spirit do what you can with what you have, where you are to bring a smile to someone like esther and her siblings. now let's head over to the island nation cup vad for a long time. it was a secret tip for solo travelers. now it swarmed by tourist throughout the year, but it's especially packed over the christmas season as cup veterans from the bass for our come home wrapper and seeing at indira short as have favorite places in the capitol prayer. hello everyone. i mean beulah, i'm a rapper, m,

finger from global vanity. and today i wanna show you around my beautiful city. but i, yeah. the economic, political and cultural center. okay. for the day prior hazard, all price actually means beach. in portuguese. the cities name was clearly inspired by its coastal pipes located on the southern coast of the island of santiago, prior is home to around a 130000 people. it's the perfect place to experience authentic. keep a very and culture. like most west african claudio towns, price is brimming with history. after bumping into a friend, indira is came to show us a very special mural to picking the famous anti colonial revolutionary america. we are now in front of a museum or foundation of wine, of africa's furry most anti colonial fighter. a couple very has a very beautiful landscape and everything. but unfortunately, a hide,

a very painful colonial pass for america. let the nationalist movement of guinea to south and the cape island. he was assassinated on the 20th of january, 1973, just a few months before africa, portuguese colony gained the independence. today he remains a legendary figure in prayer for the tour. browse legacy remain for ever within all cub variance because what we are now is thanks to what he did in the past. it's time to hit the rule pedal, not prize main pedestrian street. here. the shopping and markets go in. there is a famous space in the past. she shot her women power answer and gotten your job right here in 2021. this way specifically has a huge sentimental value for me since it was here. i showed at the 1st video of my career here, didn't do much mother got to feel

that could be better than women are very beautiful unpack, see, but do not take us wrong because we have a very strong personality. and this is what got larger talks about in this song. i particularly encourage women to be brave to be strong and fight for what they want . it's lunchtime. and indira is in the mood for some traditional cape verde and food and she knows just with the ah, this crazy restaurant is your average on the main you today is the nation of dish. got to this is a ready to know these off got to be it's called to but it's made corn near

vegetable normally come virgins like to have it in the morning. so like have the things. so you last longer. me personally, i like it like this. you see with you friday, homemade sausages, my busy watering away. got actually you should come and have it. you have to try it. i bet you will never regret. ah, ah, what's best way to cancel the day in prayers and a night legendary then use a cape verde of music. the quintile movie come tonight, who will have a nice book is a traditional jazz band. and i will show you how to down fits at the end. ok. i'm without. the book is one of the music john included in

times it was considered to african and even ban urban. but today it's well and truly i hope you enjoy it and i sure don't think i will be that i will be cool. how to dance. i'm waiting for. yeah. i've got the news . my travel wish list keeps growing. each time i learn about a new african country, i dream of the day when africa will be borderless, especially for young african. well, still in the christmas period, i have a surprise for you. here are a few people who didn't want to miss the chance to hastily wish you

a merry christmas. we reach you are merry christmas and new. yeah. hey, 77 percent as this is bobby wine from uganda. i just want to wish you a merry christmas and happy new year, especially to those in a head. make sure. may you enjoy your chris mark and have a lovely piece of feta or pool or somebody to you? it means that the year has gone wrong, and we are celebrating yet, and i like christmas for you. it just simply could be happy holidays, but put it by it means for you the season celebrate with your family, but your friends enjoy the season and remember to spread some love among your fellow 77 percent us. it's me, your boy, michael, the te hello. wishing you all the lesson, christmas time, much peace julian lev, sex sense and held for the coming year. i wish you a merry christmas and happy new year. seasons greetings to you and

yours. i mean, look, try to have a good time, enjoy the best, the best period. put a smile on someone's face. i'd like to take this time to wish you a happy, happy holidays. wherever you are in the world, me find peace and grab. you didn't everything we can do, and from the 77 percent, we will catch you next year or 77 percent of this is obama gas grow. and you have to wish everybody, merry christmas and happy new year. for us. we de la donna, it's been a rollercoaster. yeah. but you also moment as well. this is the say, merry christmas the or the 77. i will see you again in hi everyone. if you money from a real license, then you'd be looking forward to the festive season. i don't know how you guys

usually celebrate where you are. we usually so much and if i'm honest, we may be doing a little too much. but however you're choosing to spend his festive season weekly on the 7 to 7 percent a truly grateful for you. and we wish you nothing but good cheer and happy holidays ahead event that the event type thing where, where you are, who i hope you have enjoyed my surprise. we've reached the end of the shore. and as you are enjoying your festivities, why don't you pay us a visit on instagram and facebook to check out more voice? 77 percent content, and share pictures of your holidays with us? we'd love to hear from you, as we've had it from many of you. christmas is the time to ravel and patsy. this is what these a song is all about was i december enjoy the song and i wish you a merry, merry christmas and a happy healthy and prosperous new year. bye for now with

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