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Article about living on a rubbish dump in Indonesia. Living off the landfill: Indonesia's resident scavengers | Landfill | The Guardian

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They call it "the mountain": a sprawling, 110-hectare mound of Jakarta's rotting rubbish that stretches as far and nearly as high as the eye can see. Dark clouds of flies hover over decaying vegetables, cloth rags, mattresses, plastics, broken tables, medical x-rays and greasy car parts. Squelching among it all are the mountain's stray cats, goats, rats, cockroaches - and thousands of men and women, rifling through the rubbish to find their own personal treasure.

"Woo hoo, a mobile!" cries one 20-something scavenger as he pockets the phone with a blackened hand and, with the other, flings a plastic bottle into the wicker basket on his back.

All around him, scavengers are loading their baskets with aluminium tins, glass bottles and plastics of every variety. Some dance among the mountain's many bulldozers, their mechanical arms busy flinging rubbish skyward, while others scavenge the fresh loads of trucks that wind around the mountain's base and deposit the 6,250 tonnes of Jakarta's daily rubbish anywhere there is space.

Scavenging at Bantar Gebang, Indonesia's largest trash dump, is a 24-hour business - and business is booming. "I came here because the work is good and I can be my own boss," says Umi, a 47-year-old former paddy farmer who, after living on-site for 20 years, proudly declares herself the mountain's resident trash lady. "When you farm rice you have to wait for the harvest and the work can be backbreaking. Now I work when I want to work. There's always something to find."

Bantar Gebang, 20 miles east of Jakarta, is a peculiar case of Indonesian self-enterprise. Built in 1989 on rice paddy fields, the tip today is awash with former rice farmers who once dug the earth for their food and now dig the "mountain" for their earnings, with many of them living atop the tip in constructions made from the rubbish itself.

Their one and two-bedroom huts, fashioned from scrap wood, cardboard, rugs, plastic advertisements for credit cards and nails rummaged from the tip, blend like ragtag camouflage into the mountain's hillside. Cafes furnished with abandoned tables and sofas offer tea and biscuits to scavengers, while fields of trash are levelled at dusk for ad-hoc volleyball games. A small outdoor cinema, boasting scavenged speakers, shows films once a week, and the call to prayer by resident imams often wafts over the mountains of rotting waste.

Around 2,000 families are estimated to live and work at Bantar Gebang, but as Jakarta's waste increases, so does the tip's population. Most are unskilled workers from Java, some of whom have been scavenging in streets and rubbish bins their whole lives. But life here, says new resident Dadi, 25, can be a difficult adjustment. "I couldn't eat properly for weeks when I arrived, the smell was so bad," he says of the tip's stench of curdled milk. "I vomited every day."

Despite a strong sense of community on the tip, many also find that they are stigmatised when they cross its borders. "For a long time, it was hard to go back home," says Sar Jok, 59, a "boss" who recruits new residents into teams of scavengers and sells their findings to independent recycling companies. "People would say, 'Why do you live on the dump? It smells bad, you smell bad'. But when they saw I made good money, their opinions changed." Scavengers, some of them children as young as five, make around 30,000 rupiah (£2.20) a day. Like the few paddy farmers who still till what's left of the neighbouring rice fields, many of Bantar Gebang's residents must do all they can to survive off the land. Nila, 31, a mother of three, regularly scavenges for her family's dinner. "I'll find vegetables, and fish or meat on the mountain," she says, cooking dinner over an open fire. "If it looks and smells OK, I take it. So far we've been lucky - nothing's happened to us."

Local charities have lobbied for greater healthcare for scavengers, who are at risk of everything from minor skin irritations and vitamin deficiencies to tuberculosis and tapeworm. Landfill landslides can be deadly. But the municipal government already faces difficulties just dealing with Jakarta's waste. Recent initiatives to trap the tip's methane production and build on-site recycling facilities have eased Bantar Gebang's pollution. But the Indonesian Solid Waste Association recently admitted that the capital city of 10 million may need another decade until it can fully manage its own rubbish. Renie Elvina Tiurma, head of a Jakartan household and corporation-targeted recycling initiative called the Green Project, says that the unofficial reliance on scavengers to remedy the problem cannot continue.

"Scavenging is not optimal because 40% of the 'recycling' is still not recyclable, it's too dirty to be processed," Tiurma says. "If Jakartans just sorted their own trash, we wouldn't have landfills like Bantar Gebang. Around 48% of a household's waste is recyclable and another 40% is compostable. But there's not much awareness or understanding here about recycling, as it's not yet government policy." While Jakarta is still years away from diminishing its rubbish to a level that would pitch the scavengers into other work, just the thought of a different future is too much for some.

"I met my partner here, my life is here," says Nila. "I honestly don't know where else I would go."

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An article about people who find it difficult to access education in Japan. Educational Poverty in Japan | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News

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Some find even basic Japanese difficult

Kosuke is a 19 year old living in eastern Japan. He rarely attended school after the second grade. Although he can read, he is unable to properly write hiragana. All he can manage to write in kanji are his name and address. He can't do multiplication or division.

Last year, Kosuke took up a part-time job in the delivery business. He says he was scolded by his superior because he couldn't write delivery reports.

Some paper in his home shows how hard he practiced to write kanji characters needed to fill in memos for people who were not home to receive his deliveries.

But Kosuke quit his job in about a month, as it made him increasingly uncomfortable.

Kosuke and his brother were raised by their mother. She moved from one part-time job to another to look after them, and now lives on welfare, as she cannot work due to multiple illnesses.

Kosuke was regularly beaten by his brother, who is 6 years older. The stress caused by poverty and abuse made him lose his will to go to school.

At first, teachers and officials from his municipality visited his home and tried to encourage him to go to school. But they gradually stopped.

Kosuke says he can't think about his future. He grew up without a proper education, and he is now at a loss over how to go on living.

"Education opportunities are not equal"

Hitomi, a 21 year old living in Osaka, lacks self-esteem because she didn't receive a compulsory education.

When Hitomi was in elementary school, her mother, who was raising her alone, suffered a stroke. Hitomi started missing school to look after her and help her do the chores.

When she was in the 4th grade, they moved to another city due to debt. Her mother failed to take procedures to transfer Hitomi to another school, and she has never attended since then.

Hitomi says she has nothing to write on her resume. She says she feels like an outcast, and it makes her miserable.

Hitomi also faces problems in various areas of her life due to the lack of education. She is interested in fashion and beauty, like other women her age, but she has not visited a hair salon for a long time. She says she is afraid of conversing with the stylist as she doesn't want to open up about herself.

When she goes shopping, Hitomi always uses a calculator to check the money she needs before going to the cashier. She doesn't want others to see her in a flurry over not having enough money.

Hitomi avoids interacting with people as much as possible, and doesn't have any friends her age.

She studied kanji on her own, using a dictionary made for elementary school children. Using what she learned, she wrote, "Why is it so difficult to do anything without a compulsory education? I don't think educational opportunities are equal."

Educational poverty spreading

To get a clearer picture of young people suffering from a lack of education, NHK questioned officials in charge of helping the needy find jobs. Surveys were sent to such officials at about 800 municipal facilities nationwide, and 40 percent responded.

The results show that 597 young people who came to receive assistance had missed a compulsory education. 78 of them said they find it difficult to write and read, and 69 don't know how to do math. 208 said they have trouble interacting with others. Many also said they lack self-esteem, suggesting that a lack of education has an adverse psychological impact.

Asked why they failed to attend school, 101 said they were bullied. The same number of people gave a disability as their reason, and 71 said it was due to illness of one or both parents. 67 answered abuse or lack of understanding by their parents, and 51 responded that it was due to poverty. This shows that the family environment is a major contributing factor in a lack of education.

The government last conducted a survey on the Japanese literacy rate in 1955. Since then, officials have believed most Japanese have no trouble reading and writing.

But a census in 2010 found that more than 120 thousand people had failed to finish elementary school. About 20,000 were below the age of 40. No further details are available, but the figure likely includes people like Kosuke and Hitomi.

Most of the people I interviewed appeared to keep a distance from society. A lack of education doesn't result only in inconveniences in everyday life. Having no academic record makes it difficult for people to land jobs and function as members of society, depriving them of the power to lead productive lives.

Municipality Efforts

To prevent educational poverty, the city of Fukuyama in Hiroshima Prefecture is coordinating the efforts of the welfare division and the board of education.

The 2 sides now share information about families on welfare and single-parent families, and on children who are not attending school.

They created a list of families with children who require assistance, and welfare officials made visits to them. They provide support, such as waking children up in the morning and seeing them off to school, if parents are unable to do so due to illness and other reasons.

Fukuyama City currently provides such support to 71 children, but it plans to increase its staff to offer more assistance.

Night schools help take the first step

Night schools are offering help to those who could not receive a basic education.

In the past, students at night schools were mostly elderly people who could not attend school in the confusion after the war, and foreign residents. Recently, however, the number of young students is said to be increasing.

Hitomi, who could not finish elementary school, began attending night school in Osaka 3 years ago at the age of 19.

Since then, her academic ability has improved dramatically. At first, she could bearly recite the multiplication table, but now, she can solve complicated math problems.

She has also become able to express herself through writing. By engaging in conversation with classmates of various ages, the way she interacts with others has changed as well.

During an interview, she revealed that she wanted to visit the elementary school she attended until the fourth grade. As she approached it and saw children practicing for an athletic event, she appeared to be recalling the past. Hitomi said memories of those days used to torment and keep her awake at night. This was the first time she was able to visit her old school.

"Something has changed, although I don't know exactly what. Attending night school has given me courage, so that might be it," she says.

Measures to prevent educational poverty

To support those who haven't received an education and those at risk of not receiving one, it's important to create an educational safety net that can support everyone.

In 2017, the government enacted a law to guarantee all citizens a basic education.

Following this move, authorities have also instructed regional governments to set up at least one publicly-run night school, like the one Hitomi is attending, in each prefecture. At the moment, only 8 out of 47 prefectures in Japan have such schools.

According to the Educational Ministry's survey, 6 prefectures, including Kochi and Kumamoto, and 74 municipalities are considering building night schools. Support from the central government is crucial in having other regions take part in the initiative.

It's also necessary to provide adults with free study support if they can't attend evening classes due to work or because they have small children.

It is not easy for people who have trouble reading or writing to find the assistance they require. It will be helpful to provide information about learning opportunities when they come to job placement centers looking for work.

Sophia University Professor Akira Sakai says that the most important thing is for authorities to understand the severity of the situation.

He says, "The country's public education system must be reexamined to provide all children with educational opportunities guaranteed in the Constitution. Coordination between the government and the private sector is also indispensable. Until now, authorities have focused on providing education to children who come to school, but they must also consider offering other ways to learn."

To learn is to live your own life

Hitomi says she had been harboring a desire to study again since she saw a poster of a night school in a street. She agreed to be interviewed by NHK in the hopes that "people in a similar situation who are struggling will find a place to study again."

Hitomi has taken a step forward, as have others who were interviewed for this story. Hearing their stories made me realize that learning is crucial for us to live our lives with dignity.

A place for learning isn't just somewhere to study reading, writing, and math. It's also a place to meet friends and teachers who will provide lifelong support. And it's the starting point of a journey to fulfill dreams and ambitions. I will continue to investigate what is being done to ensure everyone can enjoy the right to an education.

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Every citizen in Japan is guaranteed the right to an education. But interviews conducted by NHK have revealed that some young people lack access to this basic right. Some have missed elementary or junior high school, and are unable to do simple math or write hiragana -- the easiest form of Japanese writing.

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An article on the effects of plastic waste from the ocean on a Pacific island Henderson Island: the Pacific paradise groaning under 18 tonnes of plastic waste | South Pacific | The Guardian

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Henderson Island, uninhabited and a day's sea crossing from the nearest sign of civilisation, should be an untouched paradise.

Instead its beaches, which were awarded Unesco world heritage status in 1988, are a monument to humanity's destructive, disposable culture.

Along a 2.5km stretch of sandy beach, an estimated 18 tonnes of plastic has accumulated over decades at a rate of several thousand pieces of plastic every day.

Because of its isolation in the Pacific, little is known about the island and the origins of the rubbish that gathers around it. So in June, a team of scientists, conservationists and two journalists from New Zealand's Stuff.co.nz spent two weeks collecting six tonnes of the rubbish to gain more insight.

Henderson Island is a speck of land deep in the southern Pacific Ocean, part of the Pitcairn Island chain. It lies in the world's third-largest marine protected area, so commercial fishing and seafloor mining are illegal. With swaying coconut trees, pink-tinged sand and turquoise waters breaking over a coral reef, it is an important sanctuary for breeding seabirds and home to four endemic land birds: a fruit dove, lorikeet, reed warbler and the plucky flightless crake. The atoll lies low in the Pacific, almost 10km long and 5km wide.

Much of the debris drifts ashore on East Beach, bordered by an unforgiving coral reef and prone to strong winds, making access feasible only via a 75-minute, 5km hike through dense vegetation and craggy and slippery coral.

Henderson Island is a protected world heritage site. Photograph: Iain McGregor/The Guardian

The clean-up started with marine conservationist Johnny Briggs measuring out a stretch of sand using his running app. The first task was to remove all the fishing buoys from that area.

In total, 1,200 were gathered.

Next come the larger pieces of rigid plastic. Containers, water bottles, laundry hampers, and toilet seats are crammed into sacks. Anything larger than a bottle cap is picked up.

"It takes a lot of time on your hands and knees just shuffling through to grab it all," US environmentalist Brett Howell, who leads the clean-up, says. "You certainly feel more impactful when you are going after the buoys and the big stuff because you really see the difference."

On alternate days, rigorous data-gathering techniques are used. Every item is counted, catalogued, weighed and recorded by Briggs and British recycling expert James Beard so scientists can compare the data with that collected in 2015.

Before the long trek back, the end of each day is marked with a photo. "It is so rewarding to see the progress ... you can see that there is a real difference in how the beach looks," Beard says.

Despite the protection afforded to the region, the team estimates 60% of what they pick up appears to be associated with industrial fishing.

Fishing buoys totalled about 40% of the weight, while rope and nets made up 20%. There were also about a dozen fish-aggregation devices (FADs), rudimentary rafts with netting that could hang as deep as 100 metres below the surface. A satellite-linked buoy relayed the location to a fishing vessel. Some came to shore even as the clean-up team worked.

Since fishing is banned in the 830,000 sq km sanctuary, New Zealand police and the British government are now investigating the FADs found by the clean-up team, with a view to prosecuting the owners.

James Beard picks up rubbish on East beach. Photograph: Iain McGregor/The Guardian

In 2012, the Pitcairn council voted to create the marine reserve, but is powerless to stop wave after wave of plastic junk washing on to Henderson's shores.

The rubbish is carried there on the powerful South Pacific Gyre, a giant current that moves anti-clockwise across the ocean.

It is believed that most of the plastic is from South America or from passing ships. But the team found spirits bottled in Japan, Scotland and Puerto Rico; a rubber boot manufactured in the Netherlands; and a hard hat from the United States.

Everyday household items covered the beach: laundry baskets, toilet seats, razors, toothbrushes and dozens of shoe laces.

On a 600-metre stretch of sand, the team counted 909 bottle tops. The separation of the caps bothers recycling expert Beard. What happened to the rest of the bottle?

"My guess at this point is that the PET [polyethylene terephthalate] is heavier than the plastic lids ... and they sink," he says. "So, for every bottle top we are finding there is a bottle somewhere out in the ocean that has sunk to the bottom."

As well as being unsightly, the litter can be deadly. Single-use plastics are often found in the stomachs of dead sea birds and whales. Other marine creatures become fatally ensnared.

Hermit crabs climb into plastic containers, become trapped and starve to death in the hot sun. The decaying stench attracts other crabs, who also perish. One pesticide container upturned on the beach held the corpses of 500 creatures.

Plastics break down and end up as microplastics, defined as items less than 5mm in diameter, and nanoplastics (less than 0.001mm), which end up in the food chain.

Although the crew remove all visible junk, most of the pollution lies hidden, disintegrating on the shoreline, with an estimated 2,000 tiny items per square metre.

Plastic waste poses a danger to wildlife on Henderson island. Photograph: Iain McGregor/The Guardian

The oceanographer Simeon Archer-Rand, from Britain's Centre for Environment Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, searched for seabed litter. His underwater camera captured 4,000 images that were analysed to track how the junk might have moved on the tides and its effect on marine life.

He also took samples from the beach and will coat minuscule plastic particles - some as thin as a human hair - with a red stain that will make them visible under ultraviolet light, to allow for counting.

The weather worsened over the course of the expedition, and so the clean-up team was forced to leave the collected rubbish on the beach. Only some samples for research were removed. The rest now sits in 13 collection stations, dragged up past the high-tide mark and piled in the beach scrub.

Another 14 large pieces of plastic were deliberately left on the beach, so four digital cameras could track what happens to them.

Pitcairn's deputy governor, Robin Shackell, and beach clean-up leader Brett Howell, were looking at options to move the rest of the rubbish.

In time, Howell hopes it can be shipped to Costa Rica and transformed into a low-cost housing material. The non-recyclable plastic is heated and crushed into lightweight fine particles called aggregate that is then added to concrete.

Items taken from East Beach could one day end up as a low-cost housing material. Photograph: Iain McGregor/The Guardian

Howell says Henderson's pollution is a stark reminder that plastic waste never truly disappears. To solve the problem, and keep debris from the oceans, there must be a change in how consumers use plastic, which is currently treated as a cheap commodity, to be thrown away after a single use.

"If this isn't a wake-up call that we need to change our global supply chains, get to a circular economy, I don't know what is."

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An article about the difficulties faced by four people living in South Sudan. 4 untold stories of life in South Sudan (globalcitizen.org)

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As Obama visited Kenya and Ethiopia in July, civil war raged on next door in South Sudan. An estimated 2.2 million people have been driven from their homes as a result of the conflict, 600,000 of them to neighboring countries, including the two Obama visited. More than 4.6 million people are facing severe food insecurity and 250,000 children are severely malnourished, as markets collapsed, food prices rose, and crops went unplanted due to fighting and displacement.

Concern Worldwide has worked in South Sudan for 30 years and is providing food, water and sanitation, and treatment for malnutrition to thousands of people who fled their homes because of the war. Because Obama could not see the humanitarian catastrophe in South Sudan and hear from the South Sudanese people firsthand, we felt a responsibility to share some of the stories of people we have spoken to and the conditions they have endured as a result of this war.

An estimated 166,000 people are living in camps on UN bases, which are known as "Protection of Civilian" (PoC) sites. More than 100,000 of them live on the PoC in Bentiu, the capital of oil-producing Unity State that has been a flashpoint in the country's civil war and the site of some of the fiercest fighting. In May and June, more than 28,000 fled onto the Bentiu PoC seeking protection. Many homes were destroyed and looted, giving people no option but to leave to survive.

Last year, Bentiu PoC heavily flooded during the rainy season, collapsing latrines and leaving people to wade in often waist or knee-deep open sewage. The site is now being expanded in an effort to reduce flooding and preserve human dignity, but the fact remains that people living in the Bentiu PoC are not there because of choice, but because they fear for their lives outside the base and have little to no means to survive.

When fighting erupted near their home in Unity State on January 9, 2014, they fled to the bush. Nyadom and her sister first carried James, who was born with a disability and is unable to walk, into the forest and then went back to collect their other seven children. They lived there until April 2014, when they returned to Bentiu, the state capital, but it was not long before heavy fighting erupted once again, forcing them this time to flee onto the UN base for safety.
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Nyalada Maluit holds her two-year-old son, Lat Machar, in front of their home in the displacement camp on the UN base in Bentiu, South Sudan.
This piece was written by Crystal Wells, Senior Communications Manager at Concern Worldwide. Nyaruach Yuk and her one-year-old nephew, Taboum Dhil, visit the Concern Worldwide nutrition center in the UN base in Bentiu.
Two of Nyaruach's brothers were killed when fighting reached their village. They walked for two days to Bentiu town, but the fighting soon followed them with conflict breaking out around the base sporadically. Her nephew, Taboum, is among the hundreds of children whom Concern has treated for malnutrition in Bentiu PoC.

Nyalada Maluit was shot three times by crossfire when war descended on her small rural village of Kyergeng, just three kilometers south of Bentiu. She fled with her children 135 kilometers south to Leer, where she sought treatment at a medical clinic. The war soon followed her there. Five days later, while still healing in a hospital bed from the bullet wounds on her wrist, back, and leg, fighting sent Nyalada and her family once again running, this time deep into the bush. With no food, water, or shelter, Nyalada and her family had no choice but to survive off the land, drinking from the stream and boiling water lilies for food.

Nyalam Lleu made a decision no mother would want to make. After fighting consumed their village south of Bentiu, Nyalam decided she needed to get her children to safety, but with nine children, she could not bring them all at once. She took her youngest five children with her to the UN base and left the eldest four behind. It took them four hours to walk to the base, where they saw bodies littered on the ground along the way. Clashes around Bentiu then made it impossible for her to make the journey back to her other four children.

Our teams have been on the ground in Bentiu since January 2014, just weeks after the civil war first erupted. We are currently providing clean water and latrines for more than 23,000 people living in the PoC in Bentiu. We are also treating moderately and severely malnourished children, with approximately 200 children currently in our care for severe malnutrition and 3,500 for moderate. Our teams are also building new shelters for families in the Bentiu PoC, with approximately 7,000 already constructed and another 3,500 planned.

Concern is also working in the capital, Juba. We are distributing food and vouchers to displaced families and treating malnourished children in the camps and in three primary health care units. We are also continuing our long-term development work in Northern Bahr Ghazal, which has stayed relatively stable throughout the conflict. This includes improving access to treatment for malnutrition through the local health system as well as agriculture and livelihoods initiatives.

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Which country  is the happiest ?

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According to the World Happiness Report, Finland tops the charts for happiness, for the 5th consecutive year. We share the highest positions with other Nordic countries with similar societies. The main reasons for success are our high standard of living, social support, low corruption and high social trust and freedom.

https://esignals.fi/en/category-en/sustainability/finland-the-best-in-the-world/

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Finns love country rankings. For such a small country, with just 0.07 % of the world's population, Finland is high up on many lists. Visit Finland, Business Finland, Helsinki and all travel and event companies are using these rankings in their marketing.

As we live in a VUCA world (=volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous), the contents of the rankings offer great comfort and clarity.

Well-being surrounded by nature

According to the World Happiness Report, Finland tops the charts for happiness, for the 5th consecutive year. We share the highest positions with other Nordic countries with similar societies. The main reasons for success are our high standard of living, social support, low corruption and high social trust and freedom.

Finnish happiness is being content, calm, cool and collected - rather than ecstatic all the time.

Last year, Finland was the country closest to achieving the United Nations Development Goals, joined by other Nordic countries for the top positions there as well.

Our rankings on cleanest air in the world (WHO), cleanest food in Europe (European Food Safety Authority) and the most saunas in the world - with a population of 5.5. million, there are around 2.5 million saunas in the country - all help to keep us happy. Our tap water is cleaner than bottled water - and you can save a lot of money drinking it.

Finns live surrounded by natural elements. Our country is the most water rich in the world with its 188,000 lakes. Finland is also the most forested country in the world as 75 % of the land area is covered by trees. Being surrounded by nature helps us to unwind and let nature heal us from the worries of the world. Finnish Lapland is one of the best places in the world to see the spectacular northern lights.

Finland has also ranked top on the safest countries in the world and has the least organised crime in the world. Should we still feel a bout of aggression, we can turn to our music. Some choose the soothing sounds of Sibelius and others heavy metal. After all, we have the highest number of heavy metal bands per inhabitant in the world.

Reading and learning future skills

Getting informed is a big thing in Finland, the world's most literate nation, that also ranks second in the press freedom index. Newspapers play a big role in the lives of Finnish people with a combined 93 % reach of printed and online newspapers.

Maybe coffee helps Finns to stay alert and informed. Finns are quick to wake up to the news of the world and react with agility to changing circumstances as our coffee consumption is highest in the world, with an annual average of 10 kg per person.

Finns want to keep up with the times. According to the World Economic Forum, Finland is number one for future skills education. Our kids learn 21st century skills starting from primary school and are equipped with the kind of competences the future of work demands and expects. In the Global competitiveness report 2020, Finland is on top in digital skills among the active population.

Ready for unicorns, innovations and sustainable transformations

We are big on equality, too. In 1906, Finland became the second country in the world to adopt universal suffrage. Today, Finland squeezes to the top positions as one of the best countries in the world for gender equality and women's rights.

Helsinki has the best work-life balance in the world and Finland offers the best quality of life in the world - and we are ready to let others come and enjoy the perks with us. Helsinki has been marketing its 90 Day Finn programme for foreign talents to come and taste what it is like to live in the world's happiest country and the most livable city.

Even though Sweden can still boast with a higher number of unicorns, this may change soon as the world's start-up scene finds out firsthand what a good place Finland is. There are other times to visit the city than during SLUSH in November!

Finland has a lot to offer on a more permanent basis as the country has a well-developed network of public institutions that create scientific and technological innovations. Public institutions work closely with research organisations and the private sector to test and implement these innovations.

Finland is among the countries that are well prepared for an economic transformation and we seem to be well under way in creating vibrant business environments for the future. This is backed up by providing the best conditions for new technologies to be introduced.

According to the European Chamber, Finland has a highly developed economic environment, which is one of the reasons we are among the best European countries for business. We have top positions in corporate ethics and sustainability is in high regard in today's business environment. For a small country, Finland has managed to squeeze quite a few companies on the list of Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World.

In fact, Kesko, a Finnish grocery store chain, has been ranked as the most sustainable company in the world in the Grocery and Diversified Stores category and for the seventh year in a row. This makes the achievement quite remarkable. Fighting climate change and reducing emissions are the key issues for Kesko. The entire K-Group intends to be carbon neutral in 2025 and to achieve zero emissions from its own operations by 2030.

That is even more ambitious than the targets for the country of Finland, which wants to be carbon neutral and the world's first fossil-free welfare society by 2035. The only way to also top the charts in the future, is to have high ambitions and meaningful goals to live up to.

When times get turbulent in our VUCA world, Finland is simply the best!

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Finland - The best in the world - Haaga-Helia eSignals

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Finns love country rankings. For such a small country, with just 0.07 % of the world's population, Finland is high up on many lists. Visit Finland, Business Finland, Helsinki and all travel and event companies are using these rankings in their marketing.

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Which countries have the highest energy consumption?

China.
China is the largest consumer of primary energy in the world, using some 157.65 exajoules in 2021.

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How much is caught in other countries?

Fish catches are increasing worldwide, but declining in Japan.

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How many people work as a fisherman in Japan?

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Bantar Gebang is one of the world's largest landfills. Located outside of Jakarta, Indonesia the pile stands more than 15 stories high and 200 football fields in size.

It accepts up to 7,000 tons of garbage every day from Jakarta and provides livelihood to thousands of poor families located around its base.

For the past 30 years, scavengers - including children as young as five years old - have scoured through massive heaps of garbage to look for cardboard, plastic, wood, and even bones to sell.

But the coronavirus pandemic has made their work even more difficult since many recycling companies have shut down and stopped buying scraps.

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The overwhelming stench of rotting food is just one of the many challenges that come with working on the mountain of trash at Bantar Gebang.

Scavengers are also faced with the possibility of illness, landslides, or coming too close to bulldozers dropping massive amounts of waste across the site daily.

But the thousands of families located at the base of Bantar Gebang are willing to face whatever dangers are necessary in order to collect cardboard, wood, metal, plastic, or anything else that can be recycled and sold for cash.

The scavengers, known as "pemulung," in Indonesian, typically make between $2 and $10 dollars a day, according to the New York Times.

Since the site first opened over 30 years ago in Bekasi, a city located east of Jakarta, farmers from surrounding areas and those desperate for cash transitioned their lives into working on the dump, searching at all hours of the day for items that can bring them an income.

But now, the coronavirus pandemic has threatened that livelihood, as many of the recycling companies that would pay them for scraps have closed their doors.

These harrowing photos reveal what it looks like for trash pickers living on Bantar Gebang.

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Photos reveal a harrowing look at Indonesia's 'trash mountain,' where thousands of poor families make a living by picking through heaps of rotting garbage

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Bantar Gebang is one of the world's largest landfills. Located outside of Jakarta, Indonesia the pile stands more than 15 stories high and 200 football fields in size. It accepts up to 7,000 tons of garbage every day from Jakarta and provides livelihood to thousands of poor families located around its base.

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Why is the number of sea creatures decreasing?
What other marine issues are there besides plastic waste?
How is plastic recycled in most countries outside Japan?

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Why is there an education gap in Philippines?

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Which social enterprise in America is working to solve education problems?

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What are the differences in compulsory education between Japan and Philippines?

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What kind of aim or goal do most social enterprises have in Philippine?