>> all it took was twenty seconds. the earth shook, and when it stopped shaking everything was different -- even the height of the world's tallest mountain had changed. two weeks after nepal's devastating earthquake, we take stock of the ongoing humanitarian crisis. welcome to global 3000, where we have the following stories coming up. nepal after the quake: remote communities still cut off from aid biodiversity in armenia: a poor country's struggle to save its ecological riches and welcome to the radio school: if you can't go to it, then it

will come to you floods, landslides, droughts, earthquakes, tsunamis. if you've been thinking that there seem to have been an awful lot of natural disasters in recent years then you'd be right. events like these are three times more common than they were in the 1970s. and, with climate change making our planet an ever increasingly hostile place for humans to live, these sorts of events are only set to become more frequent. time for some sobering number crunching. >> summer, 2014 -- floods in croatia. a state of emergency was declared along the sava river -- and this was just one of many humanitarian disasters. 81 million people worldwide are currently dependent on outside assistance. because of climate change, weather-related disasters are increasing. experts expect the number of humanitarian crises to rise

dramatically in the coming decades. the united nations and the international red cross are the most important emergency relief organizations. in a crisis, it's their job to determine as soon as possible just what is needed and how much of it. then aid from hundreds of smaller organizations must be coordinated. 13 billion euros were needed last year alone to soften the impact of natural disasters, crises and conflicts. one of the first things people in a disaster area need is a roof over their heads. the unhcr provides the greatest number of tents by far. the simplest tent costs about 450 euros and fits into an easy-to-carry carton.

now the un refugee agency has set itself an ambitious goal: to have 50,000 tents readily available in future. storage facilities for them have already been set up in various countries. >> it's already two weeks since a deadly earthquake hit the himalayan country of nepal, and yet international aid is only just beginning to trickle in. aid agencies say that the relief effort has been hampered by bureaucracy, governmental incompetence and corruption. then there are the daunting logistics of providing relief in a country where many of the hardest hit live in remote mountain villages inaccessible by road. our reporter manuel özcerkes set off from kathmandu in a vehicle crammed full with emergency aid, and headed towards the mountains.

manuel: if you need to rent a car in kathmandu these days, you have to deliver relief supplies to the earthquake zone in exchange. we're taking tents and sleeping mats to the sindhupalchok district for a local aid organization. we drive for three hours, past numbers of houses virtually destroyed by the quake. the people along the major roads, at least, are receiving aid. but suddenly our drive ends. a mudslide has rendered the road impassable. we have to walk -- and experience what many aid organizations have come up against: most of the villages are hard to reach. on our way, we meet a farmer giving her dying cow a few drops of water. after a two-hour hike, we arrive at last. the village teachers are distributing a few sacks of rice.

it's the first relief delivery since the earthquake. it's not enough to go around but at least it's something. other villages can't even be reached on foot. nija maharjan: that is one big problem because roads have been blocked in some places and there are many villages as such that there are no transportation facilities. people have been using helicopters and other transportations. right now we need organized distribution. and there have been so many villages that datas have not been collected, human casualties and needs have not been analyzed. manuel: it's obvious what kumari lama needs. her house is a pile of rubble. when the earthquake struck, she was in the fields with her family. she's moved her kitchen outside. she's also storing rice and other foods here. a heavy rain shower can easily ruin a week's rations.

kumari lama: we can't live in our house. we can't even go into it. of course, we'll rebuild it, but that won't happen this year. so first we need a tent and, of course, drinking water every day in order to survive here. man well: that's true of millions of people in nepal who've had nowhere to live since the quake. in this village, at least, wheat is being harvested and threshed. it wasn't buried in the rubble. families who got none of the relief supplies have gathered at the community hall. they're furious. the coordinator promises a new delivery will be coming to the valley.

it's time to return to our car. residents take us down on a motor scooter. when we arrive, we see large sacks of rice, more sleeping mats and tents being unloaded -- just what the people up here need. >> it's not possible to get anything up there. how do you want to do that? naresh gela: yes, i know. our people are here and we will distribute it to those people who have been affected directly. and then, the car, half of the materials which are still in the vehicle we are taking it upstairs, where it is much more effective. >> how do you do that? it doesnt work with cars. naresh gela: no, after that we are moving it up there. >> by motorcycle? naresh gela: by motorcycle, or even by people who will carry it. so we will manage to do it however it is possible.

manuel: even if it means people walkig for two hours with a 30-kilo sack of rice on their backs. we set off for kathmandu again. on the way we meet these boys. clowning for our camera makes a welcome change. thoughts about what the future may bring are far away -- for now. >> if the most vulnerable are to survive, then private interests must make way for the common good. it's a rule which plays itself out in the wake of disasters, and also in the world of conservation. with over 100 different types of landscape and over 7,000 different species, the south caucasus is one of the world's most important biodiversity hotspots. all that, however, is under threat: in the republic of armenia, the biggest danger is posed by deforestation. now, a local organization -- the foundation for the preservation

of wildlife and cultural assets -- is trying to sell conservationism to the public. no easy task where 30% of the people live below the poverty line >> an early morning celebration in a small village. young and old are on hand, as are all the tv stations, to listen to the man responsible for the festivities. ruben khachatryan studied biology in germany and set up the fpwc, a conservation foundation, in armenia. with its help, the village of arazap has running water for the first time in its history. ruben khachatryan: we in armenia say water is life.

if there's no water, there's no life. >> arazap lies at the foot of mount ararat, on the border to turkey. khachatryan found sponsors, got government support and turned arazap's dream of its own water supply into reality for the two thousand villagers. just as water is life, so are forests and wildlife. khachatryan is constantly working to raise awareness of the environment in his country. ruben khachatryan: unfortunately, nature conservation is very unpopular in armenia.

hardly anyone cares about it. we live in a poor country. and armenia has environmental problems that urgently need solutions: intensive farming, poaching, illegal clear-cutting of forests. loving nature also means loving your home. we still have to learn that. >> the best place to learn that is near the village of urtsadzor in central armenia, where the fpwc has set up the sunchilld eco-club -- a place where young people can learn about nature and use their creativity to protect it. the project brings young filmmakers together with would-be filmmakers. khachatryan, a documentary-film maker himself, explains their task: to photograph indigenous plants from as many angles as possible. two teams, ten minutes. and they're off!

ruben khachatryan: kids like to play. and to play, they need toys. we try to make video and still cameras available to them as toys, so they connect with nature. these toys help them get closer to nature. >> time's up. lilit ghazaryan's team gets back first. lilit ghazaryan: i like the eco-club. i've found out about new plants and made new friends. we're protecting nature. that sets us art from otr teenagers.

razmik khachatryan: i want my green home to be even greener. i think about health. if i protect nature, i'm also protecting my own health. >> these mountains aren't just home for the kids at the eco-club, but also for hundreds of species of plants and animals. to raise awareness of that, they're shooting short films that also point out problems -- like "silent scrm." at first it shows armenian paradise, with animals and humans in harmony. then there's this. a bear confined to a cage to entertain its owner. unfortunately it's not unusual in armenia.

the film has won international awards. the capital yerevan. here we get to know yet another side of ruben khachatryan. the businessman and foundation head is also the director of yerevan zoo. 15 hectares are in the process of being redeveloped. the animals will have more room, and for the first time in more than 70 years, their own veterinary clinic. more than a thousand animals live here. after the collapse of the soviet union, there were fears that the zoo would go under as well. now it's considered a source of income for conservation. the number of visitors tripled

in a very short time, to more than 300 thousand a year. ruben khachatryan: it opens new opportunities for us to breed endangered species and reintroduce them into the wild. >> the wild means huge areas that ruben khachatryan and his foundation have leased for many decades and turned into a protected zone. ruben khachatryan: this provides a habitat especially for indigenous animals that have been driven away for years by humans. when we arrived here six years ago and tried to find animals, we found a single wild goat. now we have three groups of them with sixty animals each. and that shows we're succeeding with our project. so there's hope that the environment won't be completely neglected here, in a poor country that's rich in biodiversity.

>> and you can follow the latest dw biodiversity coverage on twitter. look for @dw_globalideas now, put on your best smile and don't forget to wipe your feet on the doormat: it's time for global living rooms. this week we're the guests of ivette cob and her family, who live in sarteneja, a small fishing village in the north east of belize. it's a region rich in mayan heritage, and the cob home is no exception. ♪ >> good morning, good morning everybody. please come inside to meet my home and my family. let's go to my kitchen- this is

my living room, my children's room. let's go to the kitchen because right there is where i spend most of my time. my friend lina. lina. come lina. ven! ven! she's lina, she's a good friend and a good cook, when it comes for parties, lina is the one i usually go for. this is tian my second child. he's twelve years old . this is the map of belize. okay, like here, my child was assigned to put name and color and where you live. here is sarteneja, this is the northern part of belize. mostly mestizo people live in the northern part. and they speak spanish and english also.

i think my children feel good when they see their good work hanging there. maya, which is our ancestors' language. and its very sad that it is just being forgotten. good morning: malob kin. come here: "koten-waye" come eat: "kotenhanal" you know belize once was an england colony. so the english people have the tradition of having tea. so we grow with that also.

i'm preparing a very traditional meal, which is the tamalitos con salsa de tomate, which involves the corn, the beans, fresh young beans und plantain leaves. we usually cook them in the fire hearth. so right now we bring them to the fire hearth. >> education may be an internationally recognised human right, but that doesn't mean that everyone has access to it. according to the un, almost 60 million children worldwide have no access to schooling. in zambia, primary school is free but the cost of school uniforms and materials are often more than poor families can afford. then there is the problem of transport: for rural communities, government schools are often simply too far away. in the village of chikuni in the south of zambia, however, children don't have to go to school to learn, because school

comes to them instead, via radio. >> this sound signals the start of their school day. when the little blue radio is turned on, it's time for these pupils in chikuni to get going. >> children, j -- today were going to learn about a visit. >> lessons from a loudspeaker. a bit of english, a bit of arithmetic, and some very practical knowledge: how to protect yourself from hiv, for instance. an hour every day, then the radio moves to the next classroom. >> it's good that we come here, because we learn to read and write here. >> school may give me a chance to get away from here someday.

>> a voluntary mentor from the village helps the children understand and work on what they hear on the radio. christopher chizanda: this radio is a vital tool for the children, and their best opportunity to escape poverty. without the radio school, these children here in chikuni would have no future at all. chikuni radio wants to give them a future and broaden their horizons. this teaching program has been running for fifteen years. the individual lessons are produced by the zambian education ministry and broadcast by chikuni. they now reach two thousand children every year in 18 remote villages. jyde hamoonga: the schools are far apart. the distances are long. so we decided to bring these schools closer to them through radio, and over the years these schools have grown.

some of those that started have gone through secondary school and teacher education. they have graduated and now they can earn a living of their own. >> 80% of the children here in the countryside, far from the capital lusaka, wouldn't otherwise learn reading, writing or arithmetic. nine-year-old betty tells us she might want to become a teacher when she grows up -- preferably mathematics. betty: today we had addition and subtraction. that's the most fun because it's easy for me. >> without lessons from the radio she couldn't do that. betty and her three siblings live here, 15 kilometers away from the nearest primary school -- much too far to walk every day. besides, her parents couldn't afford even the low tuition

fees. everyone has to lend a hand to help the family get by. that includes the children. that's how it is for most rural families. betty's sister prosperina tells us she cleans the house before school, and that when she comes home, she tends the plants in the fields, fetches water and helps her mother cook. in the afternoon the family works in the corn field. everyone is needed. but it's been dry for too long in chikuni. this autumn's harvest will be poor. the parents are worried they won't have enough to feed their four children next year. chris mapanza: i pray that, through the school, the girls will have a better life and be able to support us later on.

eunice cheelo mapanza: the radio school is good, because the children don't need any uniforms. we couldn't afford them. i hope they might even get qualifications so they can go to a real state school. >> in addition to lessons, the children also get a free lunch. usually there's porridge made from the corn they grow themselves, in their own school garden. christopher chizanda: we want the children to succeed. that means they have to attend regularly. and we've noticed that works better when they get something to eat. besides, this way we're doing something to combat malnutrition.

>> after a hearty lunch, they're ready to go again. and some of them may yet fulfill their dreams of a better life -- whatever those dreams may be. >> and that's all for today. thank you for watching global 3000. until next time, goodbye. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org]

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