From Denmark to Ghana: Mathias creates sustainable water supply

Mathias Thuborg Madsen works at the Danish Embassy in Ghana, where he is leading a Danish-Ghanaian collaboration to improve the country's water sector. He studied Market and Management Anthropology at SDU and has always been curious about people and the world. Imagine you're visiting North Tongu, a small village in Ghana, after devastating floods have washed away half of the village and forced 12,000 residents to flee. The floods have levelled the people's clay houses and they have lost everything. This was the sight that recently greeted Mathias Thuborg Madsen and the rest of the delegation from the Danish Embassy in Ghana when they visited the village of North Tongu. It's extremely scary. What affected me the most is that in Denmark you hardly ever hear about these kinds of disasters and also meeting the people who have just lost everything.