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A profit from their communal garden the two biggest challenges are getting local organizations to help and sourcing materials. and the long term there has to be a direct exchange of information between the village communities and the authorities so they can also find out whats happening on the ground thats also a challenge for the dmitri clubs. making themselves known to authorities and pushing their ideas and plans without us court nadirs if youve made it. the eloquence on this is a pity that t...

A winning approach to community activism for the past twelve years the uns food and agriculture organization has supported local discussion groups known as demeter clubs the idea is to give rule communities a forum to talk about their everyday problems the program was especially and is empowering a young people and women to promote change they w has been to senegal to find out more. its a big day for these young residents of saddam booboo village theyre going on air for the first time at the com...

Dried up corn fields. a mother of four explains how the rain swept garbage into their homes and how they had to clean everything in the village. she hopes the local radio stations will help spread their ideas and efforts to other villages. and with us and. our discussion groups have carried out a lot of important projects most of them concerning climate change that what were doing affects the whole community but one person on their own cant solve the problems of these clubs have become a vital p...

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 lets take a look at how these clubs work. and and sat in and weve 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...

Day-to-day lives. steve: what about the movement now across the country, a lot of communities are saying maybe we should start thinking about it. lets go ahead and talk to folks and break into discussion groups and well figure out sooner or later whether or not those things should come down. >> i think community discussions is what we need in this country. if communities want to decide that they want to that i can them down, so be it. you just cant go around vandalizing and taking them down. ste...

Equals b, -- >> if you ban smoking on airplanes, what next? will they ban it in central park? >> good point. >> you just shot me dowp. -- down. >> i had a whole point to make on that. >> what precedent do you set? >> you punish this guy for lying, and you will not punish your dentist. thats ridiculous. >> and the slippery slope, if you slip and fall, can you blame it on the person whose property you sliped? america should be dwelling on everything i just said. >> america should not dwell. >> we ...

Equals b, -- >> if you ban smoking on airplanes, what next? will they ban it in central park? >> good point. >> you just shot me dowp. -- down. >> i had a whole point to make on that. >> what precedent do you set? >> you punish this guy for lying, and you will not punish your dentist. thats ridiculous. >> and the slippery slope, if you slip and fall, can you blame it on the person whose property you sliped? america should be dwelling on everything i just said. >> america should not dwell. >> we ...

That contacted me and wanted to be coaches and weve grown from 27 members to now were over 200 members. >> alisyn: in fact, i think you have a graphic that we designed, showing the exponential growth and this you did out of the goodness of your heart and doing this to help people. >> exactly. and when youre-- to the folks that are getting out of the military, its a difficult transition, especially if af been in a-- in it for a career. so we bring together civilian coaches from industry, many of ...