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was fortunate to recently sit down with sasha cramer founder and executive director of scheuer soil stands for sustainable organic integrated livelihoods i caught up with saussure at the world economic forum i can't wait for you to hear this interview. our organization has been working in haiti since two thousand and six as you said transforming waste into resources but we primarily focused on is developing dignified sanitation solutions for very dense informal urban areas and finding an alternative to sores and a way to actually get those wastes out of the community and into a compost site where we transform them into compost and get it back on to the soil from whence they came so i showed the haiti has to. i think one of the highest mortality rates for kids in the world why is that i was being dealt with.

so surprisingly haiti is a very small country but does have the highest rate of diarrheal incidence among children in the world and the primary reason for this is the has there really is effectively no sanitation system so there are no source system anywhere in haiti and prior to two thousand and nine there was no treatment of human rights and then this. problem as many people know was greatly exacerbated in two thousand and ten with the introduction of color which as people may not know was actually brought to haiti by the u.n. mission there were peacekeepers who were infected with cholera and they had faulty sanitation systems on their u.n. bases that waste got into the waterway and since that time over ten thousand people have died it's amazing and i think people will find this sort of mind boggling no

place in haiti and you mention two thousand and nine we waste water plant human waste plant didn't exist when you started how the heck did you do that yeah well i actually interesting that i never knew that i would get into sanitation my my degree is in ecology and i was brought to sanitation by an interest in compost and soil fertility and so as i came to haiti in two thousand and four as a human rights observer and spent several years really working on human rights issues but over time it became very clear that really the most prevalent human rights abuse and poverty and all of the things that come along with poverty so certainly as an ecologist i was initially focused on agriculture and nutrition but we're all humans and i think everyone can relate to that moment when you really

need to use the bathroom and you can't find one and just the impact that that has on your dignity so that happened to me on occasion and it was also an issue that people often brought up you talked about soils philosophy as a fusion of ecological theory i'm interested melech logical theory and also liberation theology explain what that means source so when i went to haiti in two thousand and four i. i went because i had been very inspired by the liberation theology movement throughout latin america and also in haiti and really the root of that theology is the belief that every single human being has value and worth and as an ecologist i believe that natural ecosystems are the same in the sense that one organisms waste is food or fuel for another so really there is there is no

waste everything has value and so i think there's a very nice alignment between liberation theology and ecology in the sense that we look for the value in everything so sure you know we are course a business and finance show we like to cover the spending did are interesting and informative for viewers tell us about the business model here we've designed a household tie that because we feel people will be more willing to pay for the private good as having an in home type it than a public toilet and people pay a monthly fee for this tie that which is around three or four dollars us and we use the revenues from those service fees to pay the people who collect the waste and get it to the compost site ten years ago it was strictly humanitarian or public finance and recently have for the last five years there has been this interest and can we make sanitation into

a business and there was so much enthusiasm about this that everyone thought this is the next big business and people are going to be making money hand over foot in it and i think we're now coming sort of down the other side of that mountain where there's a realise they should and that in every country where there is a functioning sanitation system it is publicly financed and often to a very large extent so i think now we're recognizing that what we really need to be looking at is splendid fine. mance models where consumers are paying some of the fees and the public sector is also contributing because from an ethical standpoint it's very unfair to ask the poorest of the poor to pay for something that the wealthy don't pay for he has had a super tough time in recent years you mentioned the earthquake but there's been two really large hurricanes that have impacted the country. what's your take on sort of the long term impact of that it has faded from the headlines of course but

i know it's still having real residual impacts on people tell us what your take is well haiti is one of the most climate vulnerable countries in the world and i think we've certainly seen that over the last decade with the earthquake and the hurricanes as you mentioned and like you said there there's a great. swell of public interest and willingness to donate and support and then that fades but the effects of these disasters take much longer than not to go away so i lived in port au prince for the last eight years since the earthquake and although i have seen some significant changes there are still thousands of people who are homeless and living in tents that the south of haiti was decimated by these hurricanes and it will take decades for those trees to grow back and so although haiti has faded from the public view haitians are very much

still feeling the effects of disasters josh i want to talk with you about something a little bit that i've not talked about on boom bust on this program i really want to dignify it and i don't want to use the words but president trump use some vulgar language and inappropriate as far as i'm concerned about haitians not too long ago and i wonder if you can comment about that and about you know the history of of haiti and and why that is such a piece his comments were really so injurious and wrong so i'd like to start by saying that those comments i don't know if everyone knows this but they came on the eve of the anniversary of the earth quake and. i woke up the next day and went into a meeting with professional colleagues and people were coming in late to the

meeting and i had numerous patients say to me that they just felt like they couldn't get out of fab in the morning that they had already prepared themselves to mourn that day and to hear the president of a country say that they were not welcomed just by like they had taken a double blow and my experience and hating has been that i'm sad i'm so proud and honored to have lived in such an incredible country for the last fourteen years i think that it's a beautiful country and it is a country that has always been an example to the world so haiti led the struggle against slavery and colonialism and i believe that haiti will continue to lead by example and i think. the country of haiti is anything but what we heard in those remarks my take is your maternal optimist and i think our viewers are

probably getting that from you let me just ask you what do you think the future holds for haiti. now that that's a good question and you snuck back question in on may because that's a hard one i think that what the future holds for haiti is that because there is so little infrastructure right now i think that what may appear to be haiti's largest disadvantage right now could actually be its largest advantage in the sense that many technologies are coming in that are leapfrog technologies so if for instance we and our colleagues working in the sanitation sector are able to develop a waterless so the action to sanitation if the energy sector in haiti is driven by so that or i think that haiti has a chance to jump ahead and turn that this is vantage into and it. it's but such if people happen to listen to this interview and there is inspired as i am is there a way that they can help out what you're doing help soil in some fashion yes so i

had said earlier that we're working on a blended finance model and our ultimate goal is to set up a public private partnership whereby the haitian government can actually finance and support this work because we're not able to raise all of the all of the revenues that we need to cover the costs of this but in the interim because i although i am an optimist i also try to be a realist from time to time and i recognize that putting this public financing in place will take some time so right now we have a group of individual donors called the cultivators and soil cultivators donate monthly and that gives us a sustained revenue source that allows us to continue to grow without losing money for every household and till we're able to put this long term solution and is there a web site that they can go to yeah our web site is w w w that our soil

or so i should cramer executive director of soil thank you so much for being here and thank you for your inspiration thank you so much. it was such a kramer from haiti she's obviously someone who's trying to do good with the business attitude in that interview incidentally was done the day before president trump's good davos speech and while some of the attendees spoke we spoke with said they were going to walk out not many did but sasha cramer did and she wore this t. shirt that said simply i stand with haiti. sure. it's. worse. we did this just in universities in the world. and before we go h.b.o.

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a glittering opening ceremony of the twenty eight winter olympics in south korea but as people celebrate the event protesters take to the streets angered at the participation of the north koreans in the games. i. bought for dozens of russian athletes feeling of the games is overshadowed by friday's decision of the court of arbitration for sport at the last moment can't dismiss their appeals against a doping related. both city probably face one of the biggest urban warfare since world war two and unicef's representative in iraq speaks to think humanitarian group raises the alarm over three quarters of

a million children struggling to get basic medical services in the city of mosul seven months after the u.s. led coalition's victory over islamic state. good evening and well. you're watching international. the winter olympics in south korea have officially begun and all kicked off with a grand opening ceremony in the host region pilling chang and the three thousand athletes from ninety two countries took part in the ring ceremony of what is the fifty third win to games i'll correspondent in a bit trying to has more from the than the young chang is flashing lights i've heard it roar a few times it is happening at the opening ceremony of the winter olympic games twenty saying oh the korean these guys definitely know how to put up

a show and stun the audience just take the famous rapper sy who wants to rock the world with his band of. bud to this opening ceremony special for many other reasons so let me just name a few that is the north and the south korean team was marching under the same flag then oh a our team or the olympic athletes from russia marching without their flags and this is the first time we don't see the washington at an olympic opening ceremony nine hundred ninety two back then the athletes from the former soviet republic march under the i.o.c. flag after the collapse of the soviet union also at today's ceremony the american team consisting of exactly two hundred forty two athletes the biggest national girl again in the history of the winter olympics i can tell you that most people don't have that seeing around me are three or four perhaps the only reason why they're

a little bit disappointed is that they're not inside that arena but believe it or not just meters away from where i'm standing right now locals are protesting instead of watching the opening ceremony of the olympics being glued to their t.v. in just a couple of hours. i saw punchers flags being burned and pepper spray being used by police. just hours before the opening ceremony protests have erupted outside the olympic stadium as you can see this group of people that's carrying american and israeli flags south korean flags as well are protesting against the invitation of the north korean team to the piano chuang a lympics. though

it looks like the small market trying to use the opening ceremony to deliver their message we have two countries south korea and north korea we didn't make we are not to cater. through the regime's brutal. regime. trying right. now at the very same time on the other side of the street there is a rival protests a much smaller one but the slogans there are completely different it says against war for peace young to go home so these people it looks like they're in favor of the steps that the governments of north and south korea have made to make sure that something is happening between the two countries during the winter olympics and

young chang the number of police officers is growing so is the number of protesters these people are definitely going to stay here during the opening ceremonies so this is going to be the background of the opening of young chang twenty eight. he completed over the korean peninsula is casting a shadow over the games and it's not only add to this clashing over the crisis but politicians as well. school to put the economy to. today's military parade will show off the powerful status of the democratic

people's republic of korea as long as hostile policies from the u.s. continue and mission of the korean people's army can never change. the. united states of america will indeed to stand shoulder to shoulder in our effort to bring maximum pressure to bear on north korea until that time comes when the finally and permanent in your reverse of what abandon their nuclear and ballistic missile and. the of. the.

of the. north korean leader kim jong un's sister arrived in south korea friday to attend the opening ceremony top south korean officials greeted her at the airport where she arrived on her brother's private jet in north korea kim yo jong is responsible for propaganda and you take she's the first member of north korea's leader. family to visit the south since the one nine hundred fifty s. . meanwhile the south korean president shook hands with north korea's ceremonial head at the opening ceremony reception athletes from the two koreas are marching together under a single flag at that opening ceremony which is well underway decision was reached that breakthrough talks initiated by the north early last month. earlier a last minute appeal from forty five russian athletes and two coaches the ban

preventing them from competing failed the court of arbitration for sport secretary general announced the ruling with just hours to go before the games got underway at least lawyers have branded the decision sanctions in disguise because arbitrators of concert that the process treated by the hour you see to establish an invitation list of russian athletes to compete as olympic athletes from russia could not be described as a sanction but rather as an eligibility decision. applicants did not demonstrate that the manner in which two special commission system but do you see was carried out in a discriminatory arbitrary or unfair minutes my colleague here and discussed the cast this isn't with our teeth daniel hawkins the reaction from the i.o.c. and water certainly would have been positive they would perhaps have viewed this as a victory for sport as justice served against doping if you will from those of appeal from the laws of course perhaps when one of surprise those forty seven

russian athletes and coaches have appealed based on the grounds that a large part of the group initially didn't face any sanctions from the i.o.c. whatsoever and another part of the group of course did receive bias had their medals their awards from sochi two hundred fourteen taken away but those were subsequently overturned because of lack of evidence by that cast this isn't just about a week or so ten days ago the coach is representing the athletes of course pulled no punches in criticizing this cast this isn't a take a listen i don't know what to say i'm really disappointed i can't understand the cast decision first he cleared the athletes and now they see sorry you can't go to the olympics this is some kind of madness it's terrible not just for our athletes but for all of international sport did i expect cas to reach this decision fifty fifty especially after thomas back in one of his later speeches pressured the court of arbitration for sport after rule in our favor he was literally threatening the

court he was almost seeing he would dissolve the court it would rule again in favor of russian athletes who have been claims from the head coach of russia's news team that the i.o.c. was pressuring kathe in this decision is that the case that the i.o.c. president thomas spock was certainly scathing about the decision when that came through it would have been viewed very much as a decision that undermined the i.o.c. is all thirty and also very much put a spoke in the wheel of one of their investigation and undermining also the credibility of the mclaren report house a decision is a. he stream really disappointing and surprising for. the i.o.c. we would never have expected these these decision shows so the urgent need. for reforms in know the internal structure of cas that was thought sparks report out of original can.