About environmental degradation. First in nigeria in the country around just to be precise its a wetland area where they also used to be mined say now and the governments and local organizations are trying to create new jobs by helping people set up face fox lets go take a. Chill my okafor does what she loves the most nature watch him she runs a Conservation Organization in a former mining area near the city of just one of the projects of the even Creation Care Initiative is a fish from commercial business includes a vision ism is a perfect fit for careful the site has an old team Mine Insights Alice Transform into a fish farm in One Thousand Nine Hundred Six to produce fish for commercial purposes there was a change in management and left to deteriorate but we have come into management and
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two jell-o. supervises the more than sixty demitra clubs in the region he s managed to enlist the local farmers association to help the villagers set up the system of trenches. nearly all the small channels that collect rainwater from the surroundings and up here it s like a delta and evil at this point the water has enough force to wash away the fertile soil from the cultivated land. and. soon they ll plant trees here to restore the areas around the village the head of the dimeter project in senegal says this is an ideal case the two biggest challenges for the villages are getting local authorities to help and sourcing materials. yeah. and the but died before in the long term there has to be a direct exchange of information between the village communities and the authorities
he is only half a minute. for most villages the batteries can only power the light bulbs and radius so we are taking and the must be continually reaches. up now in fact they don t have enough power so we have agreed that they are going to recharge and bring more power to help the community that change from england will develop more powerful batteries in the coming months but first they ll have to solve some technical problems in the system. then all users will contribute about four euros a month into the village electricity community project manager john henry says it takes about five years for the investment to pay for itself and then the local power station going on through the community it s already been able to acquire an electric incubator and a grain mill that the villages can vent these business services create an income
stream that income stream cannot be used to pay for the costs of the of the capital building the having the fast pace of buying all this equipment and for the continual expansion a maintenance of the system when i m curing services the million devices it s much too small to meet launched unmanned many sonas consecrating instead they still drive into the city to have the. most the project generates more revenue they ll be able to get a larger. when kerry is already thinking about ways to use the green electricity they generate in the village for commercial use it s. now we had west a semi go where people are trying to take fate into their own hands when it comes to fighting climate change and environmental degradation mt knows them all that s right sharon local organizations called dimitrov clubs are being set up in san
a new one in colleagues and caroline hansen wants to take a look at the battery years on the site. user feedback is key for further project development. connect into the national power grid is too expensive for most of the villages and very one juror couldn t afford the one hundred fifty euro price tag plus another monthly fee for power consumption of. the rooftop solar cell can t even power three. d. he might be in the bulbs that i received a much brighter than the one i had before and the battery is an easy time. in the air now when i love the. committee meeting in the village provides feedback. people were expecting.