With a population of 20 million people, 77 percent of the Burkina population don’t have the basic hygiene and security living standards set by the UN. The eco social housing project has created jobs for 30 local builders, in turn giving an opportunity for 120 trainees to learn how to construct resilient houses in a sustainable way.
Held at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, Poland’s first Kosher Expo set out to dispel myths about kosher food and to inform the food industry about the certification process and promoting their products abroad.
To restore the hurricane-ravaged forest, over 3,000 people banded together to create the huge Polish Eagle using 23,000 birches, 67,000 pines and hundreds of larches - in just one day.
The ship-building project was aimed at teaching people humility and self-respect.
The national team was just three minutes from victory in a dramatic match against Angola.
An island in a sea of forest, and boasting a history swathed in an imperial cloak, the village of Białowieża is an unmissable attraction.
By recycling ancient hard disks and floppy-disk drives a student created a rare music machine.
If you fly over Poland tonight and in the coming days you’ll see a sea of lights twinkling in the darkness. Not from cars or streetlights, but from the millions of candles that Poles put on the graves of their families. It’s the 1st of November. It’s All Saints Day. An emotional day where Poland’s past and present come together in a moving act of national and individual remembrance. In this special episode of Heart of Poland, Patrick Ney visits one of Warsaw’s most important cemeteries to take you straight to the heart of this day. Discover the traditions and origins of All Saints Day and hear from people visiting the graves of loved ones and special figures from Polish history.Share if this film moved you and share your comments below.
Despite being blind since birth the 13-year-old boy plays the piano and had always dreamed of performing live before a crowd.
According to the green-fingered organisers: “Scythe cutting is growing in popularity because lawn mowers make a lot of noise and release a lot of fumes. It is unpleasant to push a lawn mower around, but scythe cutting is a beautiful thing with an interesting history.”
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