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
aim is to raise fish and because of the. The fish farm breeds primarily catfish until last year the fish right on organic feed this wet mud for example attracts insects they lay their eggs in it. Br
so that they can also find out what s happening on the ground. that s also a challenge for the dimitrov clubs and making themselves known to authorities and pushing their ideas and plans without us coordinators. a lot going on this is a pity so. the two young demitra club leaders from sorry booboo have been invited to take part in a chat show at a community radio station. a mother of four is asked to tell how they cleaned up the village after the rain swept garbage into their homes and connected dam talks about the brief rainy season and his dried up cornfields with. demitra club leaders hope that local radio stations will help spread their ideas and efforts to other villages. so. that s all for today on eco at africa we hope that you have been inspired to help protect the environment to find
one after another the four demitra clubs present their opinions and proposals. not all the villages in the region have been willing to join the project but here the young people like oh not too dim have made a lot of progress. well i m cool wouldn t you. say you know the environment has become an important issue in the village since the club started. we have to keep everything in and around our homes clean. without high job and there s no help and there s a community and we ve made sure we keep our wells in better condition otherwise we have no water during periods of drought not for us nor for the communal gardens look we ve already found solutions to these issues he yelled at in your report. the next day they start building the stone dikes to contain the rain water that flows through the aim is to make the soil around their village fertile again. one m g o
what i mean we ll talk about everything that affects the village with younger and older men equally. and even more importantly how we present our point of view at the village assembly along with other demitra. where our opinion is taken into consideration for decisions about adults community i mean that s the biggest challenge before we had no say at all on matters in the village. i am. sorry booboo with its one hundred sixty residents laws of the distance from the big cities. many of the crops are ready for harvesting but once again there wasn t enough rain which means not enough corn when it does rain the water rushes over the barren soil deforestation has left the soil loose and easily washed away. that s the topic of discussion at this village meeting opened by the chief.
diego and several other countries in africa where women man and young people come together to work on bringing about change in their communities one example might be developing a project to protect the soil from the erosion let s take a look at how these clubs work. and and sat in and we ve been invited to a meeting by the chief of sorry booboo village there already for demitra clubs here there are two thousand across africa set up and funded by the united nations food and agriculture organization and the global environment facility the discussion groups help promote participation and initiative within village communities. encourages the women to speak out it s still unusual for them to have a say in policy. today the young women s club is discussing a proposal made by the young men to build stone barriers to stop soil erosion see