So, this is the toilet here. When they go to the toilet, it
just falls through to the water? The canals on land link to this place. - As well?
- Yes, links to this place. - Sewage?
- Yes, yes. Crazy driver. This fish is caught
from the water here? - Your bed is here?
- Yes, that's my bed. You've got a nice view. I used to play this
when I was younger. There's people partying everywhere,
nightclubs all along the beach here. And the woman living
here, she's squatting. - Squatting?
- She's squatting with someone. - Illegally?
- She's squatting, yes. - So, you don't go to the gym?
- No, I don't go to the gym. So, this is the local bar. Maybe if you have a
few too many drinks then you might fall into
the sewage water here. We were just coming
through the canals here, and we crashed into
a young boy on a boat, and the boy fell
into the water here. So, I have to hang this
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Nigeria, biggest city in Africa and one of the biggest English
speaking cities in the world. Today we're going to a slum, one of the biggest if not
the biggest slum in Nigeria. A third of it is actually
floating next to this huge bridge that crosses the mainland of
Lagos onto the islands here. So, we're going to cross that bridge and
then we're going to go down into the slum, going to meet the people, go
out on a boat through the canals of this, what they call the Venice of
Nigeria, and we're going to explore. It's going to be absolutely incredible. Let's get on the road and see what
we can discover in this hive of life. So we just met some
guys on the side of the road, and it's a black market exchange rate. You get more for your money, and there's just some guys
sitting on the side of the road. Gave them two hundred
dollars, and we got back... How much did we get back? - ₦104.000.
- ₦104.000, massive wads of cash. Okay, so we've arrived in Makoko,
and it's absolutely incredible. You can see the boats behind me.
We're about to go for a ride. - This is Sunday, right?
- Yes. And you're going to show us around. - You live here?
- Yes, I was born and raised here. We were just coming
through the canals here, and we crashed into
a young boy on a boat, you can see it's very tight, and the boy fell into the water here. You said that happens quite a lot? Not all the time, but it
happens sometimes. He must have a strong immune system
because the water is quite dirty, right? Yes, the water is dirty, but the thing is, we are used to it and
falling into the water doesn't affect him. Nothing would happen. All he needs to do is just go back home,
wash himself and then start moving. If I fell in the water here,
maybe I get sick because... Yeah, maybe because you're
no used to this community. And how does the
toilet system work here? The toilet system,
everything goes to the water. So this is the toilet here,
you can see it's a shack. And so, when they go to the toilet,
it just falls through to the water? So the kids swimming in here
are swimming in toilet water. The kids swim in here, they
are stubborn boys and girls. They don't want to listen. We stop them from swimming in this
water, but they still don't want to hear. Yes, we stop them
because the water is polluted. The water is polluted because,
you know, all this garbage, garbage from the land, the
canals on land links to this place. - As well?
- Yes, links to this place. - Sewage?
- Yes, yes. And when rainfall, all the water from
land and everything switches to this place. A lot of sewage that comes from a
city of 20 million people ends up here. Yes, come in here. - So, very, very polluted.
- Yes, the water is polluted. And the children
don't get disease or? They don't, we don't know how
God is doing it, but even I myself, if I fall into the water or swim this
water, nothing will happen to me. You can look at my
body, I'm still okay. Is that why you're so muscular?
Because this must be the water, right? - Maybe, yeah, I don't know.
- Because you say you don't go to the gym, right? I don't, I don't, I've never
had go to the gym in my life. - Just got good genetics.
- Yes, I never go to the gym. Right, nice one. Yeah, yeah, it's impressive. - So, you don't go to the gym?
- No, I don't go to the gym, I've never been... - Just naturally like that?
- Yes naturally. - It must be the water then, right?
- Maybe. Can I try? And electricity? A few people can generate
electricity from the land. From there, you run the cable down to
this place, but few people can afford it. And how deep is the water here? The water at some places is
four feet, some places are five feet. Four, five feet. Do people own the buildings
here, or how does it work? Yes, people own the buildings. And they rent them out or...
Not rent. - The families own them?
- Yes. So Sunday was just telling
me that recycling bottles here you can see some
big bags of bottles. The locals pull them from the water,
and then they sell them to companies, so really cool to see them cleaning
out the plastic from the sea here. Hello. Bottles? How much do you think
they get for one big bag? Four thousand, yes, like ₦4000. So we've come out to
the edge of Makoko here. This goes so far into
the distance, right? - Yes, yes, yes.
- It's huge. - How many people do you think live here?
- About over 200.000 people. - Two hundred thousand?
- Yes. Wow! And that's the Third Mainland Bridge, that's the bridge that we
drove over before, right? Yes, the Third Mainland Bridge You're a good swimmer. All of them, all these guys you
are seeing, they are my brothers. Hey man, how are you, good? Sunday, this is like a
like a children's center? Yes, the building
was divided into two. I stay in one room, and the
other room is also used for class. - You live here?
- Yes, I live here. And so we're standing
on dirt right now, right? Yes, this is where
the kids play. They play, you can see, upon on it
they play football here in this place. It's like a land in the whole
community, so all of them comes here. So most children come here to play. And so, how did you build this? Yeah, we have to use some woods. We have to buy some
woods to cover it up. Firstly we have to start
putting the sawdust, and after sawdust, we
have to pay the sand diggers to go and bring sand, so we put
sand on it and it becomes land. So this fish is caught
from the water here? Not from the water here,
they actually buy this from land. The one that comes from
the water here doesn't stay, they take them to the
market and sell them at once. So, the fish that comes from
the water here is more valuable? Yes, it's more valuable. How much would this fish cost?
Like for one, what's the price? - It's like ₦150.
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Canva for sponsoring this video. Let's get back to it. - So this is your house, right?
- Yes, this room here. In here. This is my... I do play
football sometimes too. - This is my football boots and...
- Where do you play football? That's on land, we
can't play on water. This is my room, you
know, this is where I stay People, my friends,
my relatives, neighbors, they normally come to my
room to watch television. - So this is your room or?
- This is my room. All of this, you own
room, nobody else? - Nobody else.
- Your personal room. And so you let everybody
come and watch your television? Because many people
don't have television, for me to have the
advantage to have this so I have to let them in, watch
whatever they wanna watch. - It's beautiful.
- Yes. - And your bed is here?
- Yes, that's my bed. You've got a nice view. This is a bread, so I
have to hang this here because of rats, there's a lot
of rats around, and you know. And you're watching...
What country is this from? This is China. And you like watching Chinese dramas? Yes, sometimes. But you don't understand it, do you? I understand English. - Is this in English?
- Yes, the actor speaks in English. - Is dubbed?
- Yes. I have some television
with some games, a couple of friends play games
with me only on weekends. What games are you playing? - PS2.
- PS2? - Do you want to play some?
- Yeah, I play, yeah. Where do you buy
these games from? - I downloaded.
- You downloaded, wow! I'm losing. I used to play this when I
was younger, this game. I'm terrible at it, though. I give up. Who wants to play? There you go.
Thank you. Where did you get
three PlayStation 2 from? I bought two, and someone gave me one. I bought two, there's a market
on land where they sell them, so a used one from like UK, from
America, so they bring them to Nigeria. How much does it cost? I can't afford the new ones, but I
bought the used one for ₦20.000. You were saying that
crime here is very low, can you explain to me what
happens when you catch a criminal? We get a very big boat, the
person that commit a crime we're going to put him in front of the boat,
and we foot put him in the front of the boat we're exposing around
the whole community. The chief is going to be in the
boat, the elders, the youths, women, exposing the person to the whole community
that he has committed such a crime and after which he will be
sent away from the community. - You send them away?
- We send them away from the community. Wow! And people are always scared
of the punishment, so no crime. Though there's fights sometimes,
but if there is a fight within two persons, the chief has to call the
boat side and make peace, and that's that is the real duty of the
chief, to make peace in this community. - Your dad?
- Yes, yes. Beautiful. Crazy driver. The woman living here she's
not the owner of this place. - Not the owner?
- She's not the owner, she's squatting. - Squatting?
- She's squatting with someone. - Illegally?
- She's squatting, yes. This is the room. You got a little kitchen here and a stove. Yes, yes, this is a stove. And they sleep in here. There's a lot of mosquitoes,
so they have to make use of that. So, people go around
selling things on boats? Yeah, this is how they
have things on boats. You know it goes
around, people sell foods, you know, rice and some
other foods, every food, everything we get on land
we can get this on water here. You can buy cold drinks,
biscuits, noodles, rice, the clothes. They sell clothes on water, shoes on water,
phones on water, a lot of things on water, they have this, all you need
to do is to just call the person, buy from her, give her the
money, and she continues moving. And do people drink alcohol here? Yes, man, the men drink alcohol. - That's popular?
- The man drinks. I forgot there's a local bar. Yes, there's a local bar
where we fly the drone. There's a local bar around there. So, this is the local bar. Do people mainly drink
beer or other drinks as well? There are some other drinks,
but they mostly drink beer. They have speakers. They have amplifiers to play music. This is their refrigerator,
it's cool drinks and... Lots of electricity coming here then, with the
big speakers, and the fridge and everything. They have a generator. - You have a generator, and this is...
- This is a jar can for freshwater. Okay, not petrol for the... Yes, that one you see in there is for the petrol,
but these ones here are for freshen water, so you got to put all this in the boats,
and then go to where the water is, pay for the water, fresh
water and come back. So here we are at the bar. Maybe if you have a few too many drinks,
you might fall into the sewage water here. Yeah, this is
absolutely fascinating. It's very hot, but yeah, just... Hello! Young kids over there
waving, they're naked. There's lots of naked kids here,
so obviously, I can't film them, always waving, and
laughing, and things. One of the most incredible
places I've ever been in the world. So, one of the very sad things about Makoko
here is there's quite a lot of orphans here. It's a bit of a problem, and there's
nowhere for these orphans to live, so they kind of jump between houses and
sleep rough and things, and it's very sad. We're going to go and
meet a few orphans, and there is a project to
hopefully build an orphanage. It hasn't happened yet, but
it's in the works, so hopefully, we can get there going, but we're
going to go and meet some people, we're going to meet the chief of
this whole slum of Makoko here, we're going to talk to him, he's
going to tell us a bit about the issue. Sunday is actually the chief's
son, so Sunday is the prince. Okay, Sunday, who is this young man? This young man is one of the
orphans in Makoko community. - He lives in your house?
- Yes, there is a house next door. And so Segun would get to live
in this orphanage if it was built? Yes, if this orphanage is built, Segun is
going to live in the orphanage comfortably. The dad got sick because they
didn't have the money for the treatment, I think that's what
led to his death. The mother she also
fell sick and die too, so since then, Segun has been
moving around the community, not even going to school, not eating well in
the community, just moving, moving around. - Just by himself?
- Yes, by himself. And may I ask how old he is? - How old are you?
- I am 10 years old. Ten years old. He said what will make
his life better is education. He wants to go to school,
be a good person in life. If he had a good place, he could be staying,
so he could focus more on education, so he believed with education
things will turn to good for him. Thank you very much. Thank you. Lovely boy. Okay, so we've come and
met obviously Sunday the prince and would you like to introduce
your dad the chief to everybody. Yeah, his name is
chief Shemiti Emmanuel. From what I've seen, you know,
you've got a thriving community, and people seem very friendly, but there
is a problem with orphans here, right? Maybe your dad can explain, as
he's the chief of this whole community, how an orphanage would change
the community for the better and what it would bring
to the children's lives. He said it's going to bring
great joy to the community. The whole community is going to be happy about
it because there a lot of these kids around, they're moving around, they're
not sleeping in a good place, they're not eating well,
they're not going to school. When we have this house built, and these
kids are going to be happy staying there, so from there they can go to school,
and from there if they want to learn work, from there they can be going to the place
they learn works, and once they grow up and have something doing, so it's not
going to be a problem for them anymore because they have something
doing, they can work themselves. Basically, you want to build an orphanage, and in
this orphanage, you'll be feeding the children, educating the children, they'll be coming
to school here, then they'll have a nice safe place to go back to because at the moment
many of the children, the orphans don't have a place to call home and they jump between
houses or even sleep outside sometimes, right? So if you have a nice place for them,
they can go and have two meals a day. Orphanage home, if it's going to be built, so
we have to make of good materials, good woods and it had to be a house
that would last for many years. - So the wood doesn't rot in the water.
- Yes. Is there anything that you
would like to say, anything else? I want to send a message to a friend
called Ben Stiller, an American actor, so it has been long
that I have seen him, if this video should go
across him, if you see him, so he's sending his regard
to him and all the messages. - Because Ben Stiller came here, right?
- Yes. He said Ben Stiller came here
and promised to build him a school in his community, but
he has not done it yet. Yeah, he hasn't done it until now. Ben Stiller, you're in trouble. And the other message he want
to send is that whosoever it is that want to sponsor this
building of the orphanage, that he want to say to them that God is going to
be with them, that God is going to strengthen them, God is going to grant them more
money to help this community, that will be very happy to have this
orphanage home in our community. Thank you, sir, cheers. So as you can see, the need for
an orphanage here is a big need. They're looking for ₦6.000.000, which
is roughly about $14.000 or $15.000, so I'm going to leave the
information in the link below. I saw that the chief
was living very modestly. All the money that they make,
they put it back into the community. It's a huge responsibility
that they take on to make sure that the community is thriving
as much as they possibly can. If you want to tip in whatever you
want $5, $10, $20, or so then feel free. We've seen what you guys
have been capable in the past. I'm sure if we come together, we can really help
build an orphanage in this community of 200.000 people. Many kids without a comfortable
bed or a community to go home to, so no sense of identity
for these children, so this community will really
help them come together, you know, they'll have
food at night and things. Leave the information
below, and feel free and thank you in advance
if you do choose to donate. So we've just come into this
huge like beach resort kind of club. There's people
partying everywhere. It's absolutely wild. There's nightclubs all
along the beach here. This is obviously the
more middle-class area, but I'm sure people from all over
the city come here and have a day out. Entry fee was ₦2000 each. What do you think about
this place, Mohammad? Crazy, a lot of fun. I think everyone is
enjoying ourselves, so that's one thing about Nigeria, we
love to enjoy ourselves, so we love life. Okay, so we've come back to our accommodation
for the night and quite the day there. I've wanted to go to
Makoko for a very long time. I've been researching it for a while. It's always fascinated me
with that Third Mainland Bridge running by the huge
slum there of Makoko. Thinking about going was intimidating,
as what happens a lot of the time the preconceived ideas were shattered,
and I felt completely safe the whole time. We were looked after,
people were lovely. So again, I'm going to leave the
information, if you want to donate, it would be amazing if
you watching and me together we could build
an orphanage for the kids. There's many other
kids with stories like that, little boys and girls that need help, they
need shelter, they need somewhere to stay. Obviously, a fun place to
visit for me, but living there with no guidance when you're
a young kid under ten years old, and you're sleeping between random people's
houses, it could potentially get dangerous, and it's obviously
no way to grow up. So if we could build that orphanage with you
guys, and I think that would be incredible, so I think we're aiming
for around $14.000, $15.000. Please see the information below,
and it would be incredible if we could do something like that
for the people of Makoko to bring great change to that
community of 200.000 people, for the ones that get left behind
by their parents or their parents die then we could really give them
a safe place in that community. You know, these children really deserve
the help, and they deserve a second chance. In the next video, we're
going on a train journey, so that's going to be interesting, and the
trains in Nigeria have an interesting story. Some of the train tracks
have been blown up, but we'll talk about that and
the reasons in the next video. Nigeria is an insane country
in a good way, I'm loving it. Lagos so far has been mayhem. In the next videos, we're going to go
and see different parts of the country and leave the city of
20, 25 million people. Thank you so much for watching,
and in case I don't see you, good afternoon, good
evening and good night. So you don't go to the gym? No, I don't go to the gym,
I've never been to the gym. - Just naturally like.
- Yes naturally. It must be the water then, right? Can I try?
Cool, but boat travel would probably be hard to implement