The Happy Pod: The professionals and tradespeople cleaning up Ghana

快乐豆荚:专业人士和商人清理加纳

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2025-01-04

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Meet the Buz Stop Boys, a group of volunteers helping to clean the streets of Ghana. Also, the treehouse escape for people with chronic illnesses, and the Hawaiian crow which went extinct in 2002 returns to the wild. Presenter: Nick Miles. Music composed by Iona Hampson
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  • Hello, I'm Amber.

  • Hello.

  • And you're listening to the Happy Pod from the BBC World Service.

  • I'm Nick Miles and in this edition.

  • We are doing this every day, every day, every day.

  • And I tell you right now in Ghana, we've got a lot of youth rising up to do the same.

  • No one man cannot do it all.

  • It always takes the collective to get the results.

  • We are looking out for the movement of young professionals sweeping Ghana clean.

  • Also, there's lots of magical ways of opening and turning off the lights, different illusions around the place.

  • Even for an adult, it gives them that feeling of the wonder of being a child and of being excited about things.

  • We go to the tree houses for people living with chronic health conditions and.

  • Getting to this point was a long process.

  • So to them it was just a very amazing feeling to finally see the birds flying free in the wild.

  • The Hawaiian crow, which has been released back into the wild 20 years after the species went extinct there.

  • We start in Ghana, where a group of boys have formed a clean up crew to tackle the out of control mounds of rubbish that had become an eyesore and a health hazard in cities and towns across the country.

  • In the capital, Accra, waste has been clogging up drains and spilling onto the pavements, helping spread waterborne diseases like cholera and malaria.

  • Only 10% of waste there is disposed of properly.

  • The new group, called the Buzz Stop Boys, want to change that.