>> hello and welcome to "global 3000," your weekly check on the issues that move our planet. and here's what we have coming up for you today -- diy development -- meet the rwandan villager who designed his own hydro-electric plant. emergency art -- how creatives from around the world help aids orphans in kenya. and welcome to the green school how privileged kids in indonesia learn to think about sustainability.

the european union runs the largest emissions trading scheme in the world. the idea is to use market forces to make it more expensive for companies to pollute. the hope was that they would then invest in more green technology and reduce pollution. for now, the scheme is failing to deliver. that's because prices for emissions rights are so low that it is cheaper for companies to keep polluting, than to actually cut down on co2 emissions. still, the money is making a difference elsewhere. authorities in rwanda are convinced that offering projects that comply with the emissions standards can help development. we caught up with a man who got the financial boost he needed at just the right moment to put his ideas into practice, and deliver green energy to a whole community. for people in the village of nasho, 60 year old anastase tabaro is a hero. he brought electricity to the small hamlet three months ago

when he supervised the building of a small hydro electric power facility. now tabaro has come back to nasho to check that everything is working properly. he constructed the plant with men from the village. here at the water's source was where it all began. >> at the start my wife thought i was crazy. the neighbors all told her, divorce that guy. your husband has lost his mind. but then they saw that i could earn money from hydro-electric power. our neighbors suddenly came to me and wanted to buy electricity. >> the most amazing thing about the story is that tabaro taught himself how to build a generator to convert the power water into electricity. the self-taught engineer spent years learning about the technology so he could give his nine children electric light in their home village.

>> we were poor and we wanted to earn money and get electricity for our village. we had nothing other than diesel generators and petroleum. so i thought, why shouldn't we use the power of the water? that could make our lives easier. >> 200 households in nasho now enjoy electricity. that amounts to a revolution in a remote region beyond the electricity grid, where people live from what they grow in fields or gather from the forest. small-scale initiatives need support if they're to succeed, and the rwandan ministry of the environment helped tabaro's project become reality. yves tuyishime advised tabaro on how to create hydro power plants in villages. rwanda says it plans to increase its support for renewable energy sources.

>> they help protect the environment. you know, when you are using renewable energy like this hydro power plant, we are reducing dependence on fossil fuel and that's why we encourage this type of project. we've come here today to see whether anastase's idea would be could help the carbon market. this way they could get carbon traded, to finance this project. >> in the past, there were no small businesses in the villages. now young people like eric munjaneza see a future here. at 20, he has opened up a barber's shop. >> i used to use diesel generators. that was loud and expensive. it also stank. everything's better using hydro- power. i've hired assistants to cope

with demand. sometimes customers have to stand in line to get in. >> the "land of a thousand hills," as rwanda is known, has been partially deforested. tuyishime is also traveling around the country to see what can be done about it and improve people's lives. one of his success stories has come to the village of mandela outside the rwandan capital kigali. many of the residents are women who narrowly escaped ethnic genocide 20 years ago. the war left a village full of widows and orphans. tuyishime introduced them to the "wonder bag." it's an insulated cooking bag that means the women can cook in the morning and put the pots in the bag. it conserves heat so the food continues to simmer. when mukamana zura returns home from the field at midday, lunch

is ready. it saves both work and resources. >> it used to be very difficult to find firewood. with the wonder bag we save a lot of energy. now i can cook for a week with the same amount of wood i used in a single day. that means i can make something warm for the children every day. >> the average price for a wonderbag is 25 u.s. dollars -- well beyond these women's means. tuyishime and his ministry are trying to get rwandan villages to save enough energy for the country to be able to sell carbon emission credits. >> carbon finance helps to cut down the price. the wonderbag is very expensive for people to afford, but through carbon finance, carbon

money comes to subsidize these wonderbags so people can access them free of charge. >> back to anastase tabaro in nasho. he's looking forward to returning to his home village -- around 300 kilometers away. he also has a dream for the whole of rwanda. >> i'm old now. i'd like to teach the next generation how to build small hydro-electric power plants. i'd like them to continue my work and use all the water power that rwanda has at its disposal. >> before anastase tabaro sets off back home, he takes one last look -- and one last picture -- of the power plant. that way he can show other villages how easily the facility works.

>> when the global financial crisis hit in 2009, it put only a slight dent in the demand for diamonds. unlike many other costly goods, the diamond trade is back into double digit growth. along with brazil and the african continent, india has some of the largest deposits. desperate for the one find that could secure food for days, weeks, or even months, many sift through the rubble of abandoned mines. we meet those who try to survive by finding the raw materials for the insignia of the rich. >> the indian state of madya pradesh. diamond mining has been thriving here for around 6000 years. diamond extraction is still the main source of income in the city of panna. there are no jewelry shops on these streets, but panna is a center for smuggling and black- market activities. meet human rights activist yousuf beg. he works for the environics

trust in delhi. one of their focuses is the people who work in india's diamond mines. yousuf beg is a regular visitor to the diamond mining areas located some 20 kilometers outside panna. a lot of illegal mining goes on here. the workers here are normally farmers and day laborers. they try to bolster their monthly income by earning a few rupees here and there. now, in the dog days of summer, the river is dry. and mining requires a lot of water. >> usually the workers collect soil and whatever else they find from the pit back there. they mix it with water and stamp it with their feet. gravel and diamonds sink to the their hands.e they're heaviesti

they pick up everything left over and dry it in the sun. >> yousuf tells us this man has been mining for diamonds for more than six years, despite his age. he says it's enough to get by on, and that in the past he's found some decent sized diamonds. >> if there's a diamond under the stones, the workers don't have to look long. you see them immediately because they gleam in the sunlight. >> but there's nothing's gleaming here today. these young people too are hunting for diamonds, breaking rocks even though it's more than 40 degrees celsius in the shade. the youngest of them is 13. his brothers say they're 16 and

21. the girl doesn't want to say how old she is. >> workers often have dust in their lungs. that clogs them up and they have serious trouble breathing. unfortunately, they have no health cover. doing this work without breathing masks and protective clothing is dangerous. i was at a funeral recently. one of the workers had died of silicosis. >> yousuf beg has achieved some small triumphs in his fight for improved working conditions for these people. the national human rights commission of india is demanding that the health of diamond mine workers be better protected. but that's not enough for yousuf beg. he estimates that up to 70% of panna's diamonds are extracted illegally, often by children.

>> at the root of all these problems is corruption. the government supports a lot of good projects, but the help never gets to the people who need it. the government needs to come up with a plan to give children here an education so that they can get a decent job later on and lead a good life. >> yousuf beg says the problem is the lack of schools in the region. local families have no choice but to send their children to work in the diamond fields. they need the money to feed their younger siblings. >> it's difficult for these families to break the cycle of poverty. in fact the u.n. children's agency unicef estimates that there are some 150 million child

laborers worldwide. we've spoken in the past to children who have no option but to work. many are against making child labor illegal, but they do want to see better working conditions. in africa many children find themselves orphaned by the aids epidemic. if they are lucky, their extended family takes them in. but the trauma of losing their parents stays with them. we caught up with young artists in mombasa, who are working with kids who have lost their parents. most of these children's parents have died of aids. jee min is one of 15 international artists who have come to kenya hoping to use their talents to help such kids. the artists hail from south korea, the united states and britain. they're holding workshops. the point is not just to teach the children painting, but also to get them to express their dreams and hopes. it's the first time many of these orphans have ever held a

paintbrush. the artists are working in three villages near mombasa. jee min has been working with the project since 2011. >> they can express themselves and something they hold into will naturally come out. when i look at children's drawings, it's very touching. one kid has hiv and his portrait looks different from other students.♪ ♪ let's close your eyes. first, rose, close your eyes. think of yourself in the future. open your eyes. remember the imagination when you close your eyes and now draw

your hope. >> i'd like to be a veterinarian because i like animals. animals should live a long time. >> i painted a plane. i love the sky, the moon and the sun. >> a farm. >> the course gives the children a break from the harsh realities of life here and teaches them how to be independent. >> i don't think this short five-day workshop will change their entire life right away but this will definitely influence them to think differently and

let them have imagination. >> the organizers hope that interacting with the artists will allow the orphans to get a better start in life, here in their villages. >> who knows, maybe one of them will be able to live off their art one day. oscar peren chunai in guatemala has managed to live his dream. to him a good painting is "a message without words". we asked him for his take on globalization. >> my name is oscar eduardo peren chunai. i live in comalapa and i'm 62.♪ ♪

>> i make my living from my art. of course, tourists don't come in and buy three of my paintings at once. usually only one. but i get by. and i'd rather live from my art than do other things. >> i heard of it, but i know nothing concrete.♪ ♪ in terms of expenses, we sometimes have more money, sometimes we have less.

but my wife and kids and i all help one another out. i don't think there's any reason to worry, and i hope a lot of people feel that way. we don't worry. life is good.♪ ♪ a little bit of everything. health, money, love. that's my personal ideal. no idea how others see things.♪ ♪ i like well-done meat.♪ ♪ talking. i enjoy talking with young people, and i've also got a regular group i meet up with to chew the fat. that's what i do in my free time. ♪ ♪

i see my art as the future. recently i read somewhere that when oscar peren dies, so will his type of simplistic painting. but i don't believe that. i think that successive generations will preserve my style. >> indonesia's island of bali today is almost solely known as a tourists' paradise. when you mention the name many who've been there start to wax lyrical about the amazing sunsets and wonderful beaches. once a proud kingdom, large parts of bali have become tourism hotspots with concrete challenges like waste and water management. these issues are part of the curriculum of the island's "green school". the future graduates of this international private school are all about sustainable living. >> ta-e joon is doing his best

to save the planet -- or at least one part of it. this pond. ta-e joon is learning about environmental preservation and sustainability. on the agenda today -- how frogs survive in ponds. this is the green school on the indonesian island of bali. the bamboo paradise is located around a quarter of an hour south of the small city of ubud. there's no central school building. instead, individual classrooms are spread across an eight- hectare "campus." some of the lessons, for instance in "green studies," take place outdoors.>> what do you think? should we do rows?

>> in no time, a bit of biosphere is ready. >> i'm playing the role of a customer whose pond is supposed to be cleaned up. i've given a couple of instructions. we've been at it for two weeks. we've learned that frogs die in ponds, if they don't have any way of getting out. >> this gravel will allow the frogs to reach land. >> it's really fun having classrooms right next to nature. you can just look out and nature is just right there and you're, like, growing plants. >> solar panels provide 80% of the school's power. the rest comes from a biogas generator that is fuelled by composting toilets. each class has its own garden and supplies the school canteen with food. on today's menu is fresh tomato salad.

along with ecological subjects, the school also offers standard courses in math, grammar, philosophy and physics. the students come from almost 40 different countries. the curriculum is internationally certified. >> right now in physics we're dong a sort of lab, slash, what do we call it? yes, we're doing a whole project where we're doing a rollercoaster made out of rattan and bamboo -- and glue, of course. we have to build it and make it float. >> the idea was to take something from the natural environment, from the jungle, and construct from scratch a rollercoaster that shows all the different points of physics and motion along the way. they have time and space to be creative with the bamboo, with

the rattan, with each other and the whole group dynamic. it's just a much more thematic approach to teaching than you would get in a traditional school. >> it's recess -- a chance to check out the local surroundings. here, concrete takes the place of bamboo. bali's environment has suffered greatly from unbridled tourism and the rapid growth of the island's population. new settlements and streets have been built where palm trees used to grow. sometimes, religious rituals are all that remain of the "old bali." bali lacks an efficient waste disposal system. garbage is simply burned. back at the green school. after recess, it's time for

math. but class begins with an israeli folk dance. ♪ ♪ at the green school, the emphasis is on combining practical skills with an awareness of the importance of our environment. >> there are so many synesthetic aspects that i can teach through the folk dance -- moving forwards, moving backwards, keeping a beat, stepping to the right, stepping to the right. all amazing skills for the human body. it's a sustainable education. it's an education for human beings, not for universities. >> lunchtime. the kids are enjoying some

balinese dishes, italian pasta, and, of course, fresh tomatoes. the food is served in wicker baskets lined with banana leaves. they don't need to be washed. that saves water. tuition fees are 10,000 euros a year. balinese families can't afford that, so the green school remains an oasis for the children of wealthy foreigners. still maybe one day they will share the ecological knowledge they learned here back in their home countries. and if you want to see any of these reports again or to join our global discussion you can find us online. that was global 3000 for this week. thanks for watching and from me and the whole team here in berlin bye-bye. captioned by thenational captioning institute-- www.ncicap.org--

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