Transcripts For DW Global 3000 - The Globalization Program 2

This to make a difference. And we head to the u. S. By getting seriously ill can threaten not just your health but also your life be a good. Critics say the u. S. Health care system is not worthy of an industrialized nation in one survey in the country seventy six percent of those asked said they believe the system should be radically altered or even completely replaced in the United States a major sickness can be devastating for your Financial Health as well staying in bed might be good for your body but its often terrible for your wallet its not working frequently means not being paid in the astronomy sector that up to ninety percent of workers have no rights to paid sick leave and simply cant afford to take time off long term paid sick leave is something most americans can only dream of. I do like. Stephanie tucker is one tough cookie she gets chemotherapy once a week her son marcel keeps her company stephanie lives in philadelphia and has Breast Cancer but she hasnt taken sick leave when i put in my time she for this week i will have to put mark the area this is no pay which means i wont get paid for today is it a financial strain for her. Is concerned i have a mortgage to pay you know car pain its kind of hard when it comes to your health you have no choice its something that you have to do. When to. Get. Yourself or any did move. I think. Stephanie is under tremendous strain shes struggling to survive both financially and in her fight with cancer at first it was oh my god how am i going to do with this. I cant hide it. Cant and that. But never did it cross my mind to make it true. Many undergoing chemo continue working theyre afraid of losing their jobs but such stress doesnt help their health some people we recommend that they dont work depending on their work environment. And if they cant such as you know health care some people are work at health care that does put a stress if they have to or there has been days like that that ive caught my supervisor and said look i cant do it is too tired. And again depending on if i have a sick day or a vacation day its no big deal but if i dont then its ok i. Know the consequences of not grown so i just again you deal with. People diagnosed with cancer in the us have to provide documentation that shows why they cant work and they rely on the support of hospital staff to provide proof certain employers are more generous about it and certain employers are less generous about it. But yes its a constant problem here but we its work with people on an individual basis the nurses who are sort of invaluable in helping sort of people work around the schedules stephanie gets chemo every friday she has the weekend free and uses the time to recuperate. Melanie morgan drives two and a half hours for her chemo treatments her daughter accompanies or. Theyre staying in a kind of hotel for patients and its funded by private donations. Each room has a plaque with donor names the patients can stay here for free melanie is also still working despite the chemo but her employer made a concession and allows her to work remotely. Its our way of wafa i mean you know i know a lot of people being in the Health Care Profession myself i know a lot of people that arent as fortunate as me that are unable to continue to work but i mean its a way of life for us this is just part of laugh its not anything that we look as being a burden or anything. Melanies treatment is in little rock arkansas the medical university here specializes in the type of cancer she suffers from multiple myeloma a cancer of the bone marrow. But u. M. S. Is a Renowned Research center and treats more my aloma patients than anywhere else in the world and if the treatment isnt covered by Health Insurers the hospital offers help from charitable organizations. Its in general terms of a much more complicated system and one additional burden to the patient this that the patients have to navigate. This complex financial work world goals in terms of the benefits are able to. Receive and also deal with insurance are spots which can be quite daunting. To the clinics own social Worker Councils melanie helping her to find support melanie salary wouldnt have covered her three week stay at the hotel her treatments are sometimes lengthy for me its hard to accept charity because you know im a giver. Im a big giver im a im not a real taker so. Im the one thats always the city one for everybody else high priced for children. Melanie knows that none of this would have been possible without her Family Support she proudly shows photos to her doctor ordered. Family and philanthropist support is essential as there is not a national right to sick leave in America Melanie and stephanie are lucky they can take off a couple of paid sick days or Vacation Days when theyre feeling unwell although not all employers provide this benefit but in the u. S. Few voices have been raised in protest they feel they cant make a change and they feel like if they say anything to get our government and its terrible youre going to get into some kind of trouble so a lot of people just accept it and they just say well this is what it is stephanie dreams of a Health System that would grant the sick the time they need for recovery without any anxiety about financial survival. And now we head from one of the worlds wealthiest nations to one of its poorest in africa in two thousand and twelve first rebels and then jihadi groups attacked northern regions in the country after the government failed to react there was a military coup when Islamist Groups began to threaten the south former colonial power from. Back the insurgents is the most attacks and mali is still far from stable with elections coming up at the end of july just how much of a difference can politicians make. Are essential and the man were about to meet has. Worked pains to make as many people as possible aware of their rights and responsibilities as citizens. Demand accountability from their politicians know how their taxes are being spent and where the promises are being cared. For decided to quit working as a lawyer after the Islamist Insurgency in two hundred twelve. Shocked my nation. If the group has managed to bring my country to this state and to install its own democratic north of the country. We work with Village Communities its a village elders greet us and spend a whole day with us. They place their faith in us and ask us to pass on their problems to your thirtys in the hope that their situation will improve. I think these people who give us a euro or a dollar or even a few cents. Its thanks to their donations that we can make our way there in the first place you know sort of the plus one the hospital. Is going to cease to love stop behaving like sheep. Using to take cash out of fighting back against corruption. Whatever campaigning for education and using arguments to back up their cases. I thought a part in that success. Im proud of being part of this one of the wind of change sweeping across mali and africa as a whole. Were living in the twenty First Century after all war is based Technology Enables us to see whats going on in other countries. It allows us to make comparisons and to see whether there are alternatives places where things work well the. Things which we could adapt it to only us. Like walmart he said now we see the light were going to stand up and fight for what nobody can stop the movement of people. Nature however can have a devastating effect much of mali lies in a region where conditions are harsh the sun hell stretches six thousand kilometers across the continent and people who live in the zone face months of drought every year. Meteorologists say they could be more rainfall there in future but so far farmers in mali have experienced quite the opposite lengthier dry pay. Water shortages mean. How are people there dealing with the challenges. Has all but lost hope. Once again her well has run dry forcing her to watch in despair as her mongo trees whether its a similar scene all over conical hall the village shes lived in since she was a child. And with the ground water level was so much drier when i was young it was easy to to go well you didnt have to go to the tall. Women cant dig wells anymore the waters gone because of Climate Change. Many others are suffering to this family grows corn its tough work and now during the School Holidays everyone no matter how young is helping out. The seeds theyre planting were given to them via a neighbor after the family lost their craft you to drive. This kind of seed is supposed to grow extra fast in this area the effects of Climate Change are already painfully apparent helping to combat them requires long term solutions. And thats germanys aim is to help stabilize mali by providing the country with the means to adapt to Climate Change while also keeping in mind that mali is developing on its own. Thats why we help private enterprises adapt to Climate Change but also to find new Investment Opportunities connected to the issue. Its sort of hidden. One way the German Agency for International Cooperation is helping it by working with the seed wholesaler fossil cuppa. Its advised the boss not to rely solely on maize and to think about investing in other strains of seeds. If you if there was if you can put up with. The most of. It. These days the high yield varieties are profitable because theyre not enough for our customers. And we now Work Together within our great Cultural Research institute. Identified seed varieties that respond to Climate Change. Its a shorter cycle two and a half to three months although the shorter the cycle the smaller the yield. Its half past seven in the morning in color cunny. Much of course some a key hundreds colleagues are on their way to seven to meet members of an ngo called. Which helps communities protect biodiversity. We promise to come back here we are. Five months ago members of the ngo help the local women to plant a vegetable garden in the village. Theyve come back to see how its doing. All that. You have to get down deep to distribute the fertilizer. The women use sheep dung and composite to make an organic fertilizer. And. Thanks to an irrigation System Installed by the end geo this is their Second Harvest of the year. Who would do. If i turn it on here the water comes out that. The women fought long and hard to tap into the system that supplies water to a nearby hospital. To sit in a. Vegetable garden has been designed to adapt to Climate Change but this year it hardly rained when it did it came late and didnt last long they couldnt land in the grain and there were no peanuts either. Without the vegetable garden people would be stuck at home with nothing to do and they go hungry and. Since the vegetable garden was planted the women have been missing every morning and every evening. Muscle says that strengthened their sense of community. Love going home now. Nasa has promised to help the women to get a well installed in the village. Because i can bring people together and motivate them the women came together and asked me if i wanted to let them go. Meanwhile some key is missing the man of the village theyre learning how to prevent erosion. Were going to prune the trees now if we leave just one branch will have enough shade and it will continue to produce fruit and crucially it will continue to deliver moisture into the earth. Leaving the trees standing makes planting harder still with the effects of Climate Change so apparent most people are convinced that the benefits outweigh the disadvantages. Theres never any shortage of firewood maslen the other women are now managing to survive off what they grow elsewhere of. The vegetable garden provides them with a healthy diet and an income. So wants to crack down on people who fell trees for charcoal. What if we spend so much time talking to people i think anyone caught cutting down trees should be fine and we need the wood for cooking but a few branches are enough for that one. Whos in work with n. G. O. S workers some marquee agrees hes been trying to persuade people not to cut down trees but its an uphill battle. Just a short distance away is the evidence for some marquee and massood the struggle is still far from over. And another struggle continues in this weeks global ideas to. The rain forests of columbia are home to a critically endangered primate the cotton top tom uren in just two decades the population of these elusive monkeys has shrunk by eighty percent in the region around else a bad Animal Rights activists are doing their utmost to help the surviving animals thrive and as a reporter catching a journey discovered thats not as easy as it sounds. And. Cotton top tamarin monkeys have a special significance for me i absolutely love working with them. Theyre an especially beautiful species and that enables us to generate greater interest in their preservation. You have to navigate your way through endless forests and swamps to find cotton top tamarins in the wild extremely shy theyre the size of a cat and way less than half a kilo. They live high in the tree tops and theyre one of the most endangered primates on the planet. Is no food. Cotton top tamarins are only found here in colombia. And only in one particular part of the caribbean region. In the sixtys and seventys they were used on mass for animal experiments for studies on bowel cancer back then twenty to thirty thousand of them were exported to the u. S. Today there are only around seven thousand cotton still living in the wild. Used to be a zoo director but then she sacrificed her career to help protect the species. Today she runs of. Its biggest sponsor is none other than movie and media giant disney. Our focus is made me on researching and protecting cotton top tamari. But right now the most important factor is that we have to preserve the rain forest in order to save the monkeys. For the rain forest here in northern colombia is comprised of an array of smaller forest areas much of the region has already been deforested. The ngo to link up the individual woodlands by a corridor. The team have their own Reforestation Center where they cultivate the right mix of trees and other domestic jungle plants. Our objective is to establish forests will support the survival of the cotton top tom. With the corridors will make it easier for the monkeys to move from one section of woodland to another and make it easier to reach sources of food. Growing the wooded corridors is trickier than it might sound many staff at the n. G. O. S are teaching themselves the art of gardening in the colombian jungle. Here a lot of the pond species we have in our forests are not commercial varieties so there is no Information Available on the best way to plant on a grow them. And not Everything Grows at the first attempt. We sowed the seeds two months ago and weve seen how the species didnt thrive in plastic containers. So were now having another fly over there already in the soil. Its. The gardeners will have to wait a few more weeks to see whether this option proves more successful. But we know that its difficult to restore a forest as opposed to just saving it its a complicated process if you think. That is possible to regenerate the original forest. There. For the time being the ngo staff are planting the trees themselves. But the Long Term Plan is for local farmers to play a bigger role in reforestation efforts planting new one land however is not enough to secure the survival of the cotton top tamarins proyecto also works with villages in the area such as. The residence used to hunt the monkeys for sale. B n g o team have now helped locals develop new sources of income the women in the village have set up a handy crafts group turning disposable plastic bags into colorful hand banks. That me away about. We also make these stuffed toys the message is buy a fake animal not the real thing and in the process benefit the community and help ensure the survival of the cotton top tom uren monkeys. Proceeds from sales are shared between the on prey act and the women who make the toys the ngo has been on the ground here for sixteen years there are now signs all over the village promoting the conservation of the cotton top tamarins the monkeys are also on the curriculum at the local school the students here play a game where they represent the animals. Each pupil has to fight for their treat represented by their chair and to commiserate the lack of trees in the real world there arent enough chairs to go around. Whats happening to the creatures of the forest theyre going to die theyve no food no home no tree. Nothing no. Education for the next generation reforestation for the future and new lines of work. Has a multifaceted approach to achieving its goal. Of no. People dont have a steady income and know nothing about this species or it will all be for nothing. Its the same thing if people do have information but they have no idea how to preserve the forest we hope that our vision will enable us to achieve our objective say thing the cotton top tom arinze from extinction. And thats all from global three thousand this week as always we love getting your feedback so do write to us at global three thousand d w dot com and dont forget were on facebook d w playable society see you next week. My. The future of news each time seems to be busting too much emotion to mention. The for announcing. The celebration thank you small most me. 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