2008 African Women and Water Training
Building Relationships and Self Reliance to Support Tech Transfer
the African Women and Water Program. This is an annual 5-day gathering that provides thirty African women with the tools to implement a water service project from start to finish. The conference design is holistic, in that women not only share proven and appropriate water technologies, but they share valuable organizational skills and strategies to full ...learn more
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The next time you peel a banana, just stop and think for a second. What
has had to be sacrificed for the pleasure? The environment...local
people's health....workers rights? The chemicals that are sprayed on
the banana are so poisonous that they not only damage the environment
but seriously threaten the banana picker's health. And even then they
don't earn enough to live on, they are among the poorest in the world.
Workers are prevented from forming unions to demand better pay and
working conditions. Every time we eat a banana produced under these
conditions we are supporting exploitation of the poor and environmental
destruction.
In this pod we see the hard work, the sickness, the prohibition of unions, through living with the workers. We see the relations with the plantation owner, the lack of healthcare, the backbreaking work, the worries of feeding a family, or repairing the house. The day to day grind of poverty. This pod will show the reality of what is sacrificed every time we eat a banana that isn't fairly traded.
In this pod we see the hard work, the sickness, the prohibition of unions, through living with the workers. We see the relations with the plantation owner, the lack of healthcare, the backbreaking work, the worries of feeding a family, or repairing the house. The day to day grind of poverty. This pod will show the reality of what is sacrificed every time we eat a banana that isn't fairly traded.