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Gaza sisters win prize for turning rubble into reusable bricks
Key takeaways
- Farah and Tala Mousa, who live in a tent and have been repeatedly displaced since their home was bombed, have been named the Middle East regional winners of the youth-focused Earth Prize.
- "After our entire city turned into rubble, everything around us pushed us to think about a solution," 17-year-old Tala told the BBC.
- The sisters plan to use their $12,500 (£9,245) prize to teach others to produce the bricks and "participate in reconstruction themselves, instead of waiting only for outside help," 15-year-old Farah said.
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Danny Aeberhard,BBC World Serviceand Maia Davies The Earth Prize Tala and Farah Mousa said they had "refused to see rubble only as a symbol of destruction and loss"Two teenage sisters from Gaza have won an environmental award for turning rubble into reusable bricks, saying they wanted to "turn destruction into something useful".
Farah and Tala Mousa, who live in a tent and have been repeatedly displaced since their home was bombed, have been named the Middle East regional winners of the youth-focused Earth Prize.
"After our entire city turned into rubble, everything around us pushed us to think about a solution," 17-year-old Tala told the BBC.
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