24h Europe: The Next Generation

23-year-old Gordon lives in Derry, Northern Ireland. He has a brother and a sister and is supposed to take over his parents' farm. Now is the season for shearing sheep. Gordon not only shears the wool from his own sheep, but also from many sheep in the wider area. Economically, shearing is not worthwhile. The wool of a black shearling brings only 30 pence per kilo, which barely covers the costs. But shearing prevents parasites from settling in the wool, and they could also infect the sheep's skin. Marta and Natalia, a lesbian couple from Wroclaw, are promoting an all-out women's strike at a congress for women's rights in Lodz. STRAJK KOBIET - Women's Strike is to take place on Women's Day on 8 March. The demands: Equal rights, equal opportunities, equal pay for women. Khalifa (23) was born and raised in the small town of Rambouillet southwest of Paris. At 17, he became the father of a daughter, Inaya. He is a Muslim, works as a social worker and likes to rap. He lives apart from his daughter's mother, but he still makes a point of being a good father to his child. His biggest dream is to build a house in Senegal. Carolina works as an account manager in London. But this morning she made the 1,500-kilometre journey to her home in Italy by plane and is now exchanging news with friends who have stayed in Italy. All of them have tried dating on Tinder. Radio ecologist Katya from Kyiv regularly visits people living illegally in the forbidden zone around the Chernobyl atomic power plant. Today she visits an old woman. Like most of the 150 or so "samosely" - "self-settlers" - she is self-sufficient, living off the yields from her garden. Together with her daughter, she was evacuated after the 1986 explosion; but she returned not too long after the disaster. She lives all alone. The Ukrainian government tolerates these few old returnees while the influx of younger people is not tolerated. When the last Chernobyl Samosely have died, the area is to remain uninhabited for 1,000 years. *** Book recommendation: Bound to the Ground, with photographs by Esther Hessing and texts by Sophieke Thurmer. The book chronicles the life of the Samosely in the Chernobyl exclusion zone and portrays people who work at the decommissioned nuclear power plant today. http://boundtotheground.com/