Global Us: What connects us all

Senegal is one of the world's leading peanut producers. However, the industry has taken a huge toll on the soil. Peanut farming has led to a lack of soil nutrients and erosion, and now much of the country's farmland is infertile.

Arturo Duclos is an artist and also loves to spin discs as a DJ. He and his wife live in the historical center of Chile's capital, Santiago. Their living room is filled with his artworks, as well as pieces from all over the world.

The Chile, or southern, Darwin's frog is an endangered species, mainly because of a skin fungus. Scientists in Concepción are trying to save the small amphibian by breeding healthy frogs and sending them to Europe.

The young writer Nir Baram has done what hardly any other Israeli has dared to: he spent a year behind the barrier in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, visiting places farther from fellow Israelis than the moon, and speaking with Palestinians who know Israelis almost only as uniformed soldiers.

He also criticizes the Israeli left, which still dreams of a two-state solution. Baram shows clearly that the idea is long obsolete: that the West Bank is a patchwork, strewn with settlements now inhabited by more than 550,000 Jewish settlers. Together with Palestinians and Israelis, Baram has founded a peace initiative advocating coexistence of both peoples in one homeland.

Sumedha Joshi and her husband Santosh live in the village of Velas. They prefer to eat vegetables from their own garden. They use cow dung as cooking fuel.

Glittering palaces for the rich and squalid huts for thousands of children and teenagers living on the streets: that's Nairobi. High school teacher Clifford Oluoch is one of those who refuse to accept the misery of homeless young people. He wants to rescue them, or at least make their lives more bearable.

He says they all have dreams: the teenagers he teaches at the high school where he works by day, and the kids on the street, whom he helps by giving them meals in the evenings. To do so, he's rented a room from the Catholic church. Here they cook, play and talk. For most of them he's the only father figure who's ever played a role in their lives.

Otar Phareulidze is 52 and lives in the Georgian village of Alvani. His family have been sheep herders for generations. He's named his dogs after Georgian film stars. They're his favourites. Without them he couldn't keep his flock together.

Glittering palaces and squalid huts: that's Nairobi. High school teacher Clifford Oluoch wants to help homeless teenagers. He says they all have dreams, just like those he teaches in school.

Writer Nir Baram has done what hardly any other Israeli has dared to: spent a year behind the barrier in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The Palestinians here know Iraelis almost only as uniformed soldiers.

Ati En lives in Lonton in the north of Myanmar. He likes playing football, watching matches on TV and listening to hip-hop.

He's concerned about climate change and the volume of plastic waste in the world.