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The Happy Pod: The professionals and tradespeople cleaning up Ghana
Sat, 04 Jan 2025
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, I'm Ryan. 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 a collective to get the results we are all 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.
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