Is helping to provide basic education to kids living in the slum. Plus 3. Gigantic but these drop school also will be facing extinction if we dont make some important changes very soon. Its great to have you on the program so how prepared are we in our virus. In this show for now africa has been spared by e. Major outbreak of the disease so far they have been just 12 confirmed cases thats in egypt tunisia algeria morrocco nigeria on senegal but is this because that is these houses now. Spread or because it has not been detected thats the 1000000000. 00 question the World Health Organization has warned that countries with Poor Health Care systems may not be able to cope with an outbreak would mean africa being of particular consent. Screening has been introduced at most major african airports and border crossings theyre using mechanisms already established during the a ball outbreak in west africa from 2014 to 2016. Comes to the new Coronavirus Health officials know Early Detection is vital if an epidemic is to be avoided. Even if it Even Airlines normally somebody loving a fluke of their lives in 4 months and they begin from the air but all its taken for them to go negative. So as we talk in uganda we still dont have anybody thought about us in senegal which has so far reported 2 confirmed cases people are buying up sanitizers and must some pharmacists say theyre running short already. Theres a certain panic which even though it doesnt look too serious for now seems to be increasing. The airlines from many african countries have suspended flights to and from china now kenya has also cancelled flights to and from northern italy. Testing facilities on the continent have been increased meaning by now most countries able to test. The capacity of countries to address this article has improved extremely in the last few months while weve been working with countries however as medical workers across major cities are preparing isolation wards and hospitals their concern remains most african Health Care Systems do not have the capacity to deal with a large scale frankl coronavirus. Now lets go have a quick chats with dr mary stefano Regional Office for africa in brazzaville republic of congo doesnt marry many thanks for your time now africa has recorded very few cases by the International Community is awarded why. Good so as you know where the outbreak started in china and it does spread to Different Countries and of course africa is also at weeks because of the volume of travelers between africa and order affected areas so the like you would that would be importation of kisses into a half week is very high and they might also be worried because. Of the for ideality of the systems enough. And also the population we have in africa but just to assure the world that we are enhancing our level of preparedness in africa so we can take and also respond appropriately ok now some of our 14 african countries are not have are testing the equipment for corn our virus that obviously is a challenge how prepared are we. Oh ok so you are right we have right now 34. 00 countries that have the capacity to test. And know in many countries oh we are helping them to prepare and their capacity to confirm 1000 well for dos do not currently have the capacity for christine. We are encouraging them to send big habits of search suspected cases to say they are samples to their new born countries and also the kind of send the samples to the Reference Number at least in south africa and still in dhaka so in terms of weve heard it is at the beginning of the outbreak we have assessed the capacities of all the 47 countries still fall under the age of literature you know office for africa so we pretty much ignored because it is that the country is half and so we are helping them enhance capacities in places where they have some weaknesses so we have already deployed response to some of these countries and they actually opened then we were really pleased to do assessment again to see how far they have poor girl is in terms of ok. Clearly theres a lot going on ok in an hour now and lets get a bit practical here a lot of people are panicking we see that all the time people are in face march here and they Hand Sanitizers have run out so so give us 3 major points for individuals how they can prevent him saw some contact in a virus. So to prevent. Oneself from conducting no clo no by us 1st of all we talk about a sore show this season so you still want to me because they were good and also hand washing with soap and water or we used Hand Sanitizers to make sure that clean and also if one is coffee in upward use of. Coffee in socal by your north we dish you on book really disposing of the words or use the. Call to sort out we prevent spread of insoles to people around us ok ill tell you what im going to wash my hands and use a Hand Sanitizer right after his interviews are ok. You know ready to go ok im ready to go thank you very much. Mary stephen with a w. H. Or Regional Office for africa in brazzaville many times for a time. Now basic education is very important so it becomes a challenge when many across the continent can not afford to be educated that is the case and i jerry where many children are unable to make it through primary or secondary school bought thanks to remarkable individuals theres always hope our correspondents flourish to go out takes us to lagos where one young woman is providing basic education for kids living in a slum. A quiet stay in the jungle where one of the most notorious slums in lagos gangs drugs and street fights i usually the order of the day at a very young age kids must learn how to make it through this tough streets going to school is a privilege that many cannot afford a 20 year old teacher our rules our museum was among the lucky ones with the help of a sponsor she was able to make it through secondary school and university but it was a real shocker. So it was all for me i got experience School Children fights in one cor. It was hard for me get its a fine people going. After. The School Everybody seemed to want to. Now rose is committed to helping other kids from unity together with her sister and weve helped from several n. G. O. S she set up is really nice schools its a no cost school that provides basic education for children in the song was. Overwhelming getting this kid. Again right im not conduct takes weeks im no longer a right. Auntie auntie anthea decided this is done. Thanks to some of them are giving us textbooks now parno us promotes tristan who are so skewed parents only have to pay 15. 00 us to last part and many of them still go to make up rows recently introduced the recycle pay system to high school its a system that allows parents to pay for their childrens fees using recyclable materials that are easy to find here like plastics on my lawn mrs carr is one of the beneficiaries of this program a single mother of 7 children she says she can now dream of a Brighter Future for her children. Here. Because when my own time youve been a soldier like this. No respect to me this june issue. Im very happy and rose hopes to build a bigger facility that can accommodate more children. They are very beautiful creatures right but giraffes in Subsaharan Africa i think landing up more than 10 percent a decade according to Giraffe Conservation foundation the Gentle Giants are already extinct in 7 nations but only around 100000 left in the wild a group of african nations including kenya ethiopia and zimbabwe are working together to help stop the giraffe becoming extinct altogether it is silent extinction according to Cancer Patients thats getting too little attention well giraffe populations are plummeting over the past 30 years weve lost about 5 percent of the dreadful pollution we now have about a 110000 euros for meaning in the wild so in direct language that means weve lost weve lost about 35 percent of the population in 3 generations so thats a quite steep decline. Tallest and emails are disappearing many of you choose a loss of the natural habitat but not only just stick it through it its michelle to fall giraffes is the unsustainable hard to buy the process of. All saw. Is a big number we sent a very very we fall that a number of. Giraffes. Imported to europe. You know this is what miracle saves is you wraps 7 african countries proposed a concerted action plan kenya cameroon chad if you project turns any end zimbabwe are now working together to collect information protect geographic migrations routes and secure funds for their conservation one hope that the decline of the syrian giant will be halted. Well about the phone now from did news africa you can catch all austar is on our web sites on the Facebook Page so well leave you now with some more pictures of the Gentle Giants called the giraffes to the next time spy for now. Im david and this is a Climate Change sex. Happiness increase book. This is the book for you. Smarter for free to go where you go on. Earth home to millions of species. Worth saving. Google ideas tell stories of creative people and innovative projects around the world. That protect the climate boost Green Energy Solutions and reforestation. Interactive content to inspire people to take action the indians the environment series of global 3000 on t. W. And online. For the 1st. Greetings from the land and a warm welcome to the latest news from arts and culture i can house that and heres a quick look at whats coming up on todays show. Maybe german is back panda owner of International Womens day my colleague Rachel Stewart gives us the lowdown on how it is to push females in germany today. Meeting up with a photographer on a mission to find the hidden and unlikely place that classic cars go to. We start with an explosion of energy in the form of one Nicholas Kurla he hails from fire in southern germany and even though hes only 15 years old hes got star quality on stage as a dancer at the recent world dance cup in baja guy in puerto rico he was named dancer of the year from a field of 6000 participants not poetry in motion doesnt come easy. You let go you let your body do what it wants. And can do everything to take the audience with you. When you