in northern sudan for centuries people have lived in this area the region eking out a modest living despite all odds but it is being buried under more and more sand blowing officer. residents of this village trying to protect their homes but it's an uphill battle. and it is they they are i think if you dig down 3 or 4 meters you'll find the house . or the well is down there to. the house is totally covered. and if that's the will for. some families have built 3 more stories on top of their original homes in less than 20 years everybody is battling the sand.

the way they believe as though they do know that it started with this crack the entire wall could collapse these wooden joists are all that's keeping the house together i had to move into the new house over there. a number of villages have moved away those still here don't know where to go fertile land is scarce in sudan no one expects any help from the government in the distant capital khartoum. and there we are the forgotten people life is hard in these parts. of. the desert is also taking over entire tracts of farmland. this is the plantation of our own mohammed al hussein he moved here with his family 15 years ago.

this is. 3 of the mongol wilds is the height of 4 to 5 meter is all of the 4 metre of our. sun. like this. i said maybe it is 3 i'm a 3rd a 3rd of the government. he also grows palm trees and has already lost $500.00 of them to the sand the rest will also soon be buried. at their heads hard to maintain them. it's hard to water them you need to use a lot of water for it to reach the roots that a depth of 3 metres. at some point you just feel desperate. and he's one of countless farmers have acted about 70 percent of the arab oil land in sudan is in danger of being swallowed up by the desert. and the region is

frequently present by sandstorms known as haboobs. it was a lead because. it was sure. good luck barlow was the 1st time. that my brother welcome mohamed up to loud and engineer hakim. the 2 men want to plant trees to try to hold back the sand with the help of drought if you have 3 minutes the stages the ones.

over. we're developing smart systems and bots capable of going to remote areas that are hard to reach by truck or on foot in order to plant seeds from the air chetry is. the t.v. show mash through i are lousy young people to showcase their business ideas unlike similar shows in western countries mash roy and aims to make a serious contribution to socio economic development. your presentation was comprehensive and speaks for itself. i congratulate you on your immense effort. it shows that for young people in sudan there are no limits to hope. and a. car to the capital of sudan it's been a year since mohammed and her team won 1st prize on mushroom i brought them a 1000 euros

a lot of attention and new contacts now they're working hard on finishing their prototype drone. but the certification. the. scenes from the sky with this plane took over a wide range of the area and all of the village. houses so the movie. suited to the task because they grow deep and extensive roots that bind sand and soil and help make it photon again. probably going to come about. because we can't find this device in the market. in many other regions of the world it would be easy to find the parts you need to build a drone but in sudan it's a huge challenge. we can buy or sell anything and i've watched

technology. nothing go out with nothing coming months and it's. so. poverty or something like that to bring everything we need we can get help from day of national mobilization because we are in for that that's for danny to write his continued child. the art of being a lie classified us to today's. the team and mohammed are off to test friday a drone in the countryside. there isn't flying my mind. so. it's hard to get them go. by the end of the day it's just a test. every time you know that it will crash more to do something

i am very they've just got something. they need that's the big i called my mind. the 2 inventors have been working on the project weekends and evenings for more than 5 years by profession that actually specialist. it's windy so the conditions for a maiden flight are far from perfect. people . because it's not it's not easy. to eat.

you know. it's not completely destroyed. back encountered. at the edge of the city of the headquarters of c.t.c. sudan's largest and grow chemicals company this is where the final selection round is taking place for the latest series of. 24 out of a 1000 applicants have made it this far they have thought up all kinds of projects ranging from an electronic health care card to sustainable text on production. made i mean up there latif the president of c.t.c. set up

a televised contest together with the sudanese young businessman's association and the british council hope that a lot of that if you bobbie i'm sure you know within that the whole concept of entrepreneurship at that time was not a known concept and was not one that was a tall encourage so culturally. being entrepreneurial is not part of the sudanese culture no mother you know would tell her son or daughter all daughter i want you to go and start the for a company and fail to never it's like study be a doctor be a lawyer be an engineer if you friend you know all these all day what can we do then maybe you can go and start. at the beginning it wasn't clear if anybody would be interested in a show like mash arroyo. but really from missouri one it was amazing to us not only what about but 5000 participants 55000 applicants in missouri one but then the engagement once it started to go live on t.v.

and also she'll need. you know every one from that person's area or region would be watching and voting and they both go in again so it really was the wild dissolute do think it would be like this. but in fact national oil has become the most popular t.v. show in sudan. globally khartoum ranks among the cities with the poorest quality of life it has a population of between 6 and 8w2w of them are people displaced from their home regions because of desertification of the civil war. 60 percent of the country's population are under 30 years of age. many of them don't have any steady employment and try to get by doing odd jobs.

whether young or old rich or poor almost everybody in khartoum knows mushroom i. live in i go miserable and the devil in the show inspires you to work on your ideas and education and plans and to make something of yourself rather than just work for somebody else. it hurts young people a lot i wish there were more shows like it because the younger generation are in a sorry state they have a lot to offer they just need some help getting started. and the work that. i am one of the people who have been inspired by my choice of it they gave me a great push. i want to launch a project that's unique in sudan. and i want to win a trip to london and that's what it is and that's what everybody here dreams of. danny. to make

entrepreneurial dreams a reality is far from easy in sudan the government offers no grants so other kinds of support for startups mash rawya tries to film the gap it offers candidates workshops on issues such as funding planning and marketing. she's thinking about reaching up as a small farmers going down to sun to eat a small farm and most of them they don't know that acknowledging and they don't have t.v. so much she thought about we thought that because you know the radio will be one of the towns that we can use in 2 weeks that. the question is if you understand your customer who does the farmer trust before work because people who are already part of fertiliser from. so can you identify the people who are already buying for those of from. and if you convince them they will soldier the farmer on your behalf the

people attending the workshops here are much more passionate the really want to look. very enthusiastic a lot of questions they want to talk about it's a lot and i compare it to a lot because they want you to know as much water as possible. from your food. the candidates might be very keen but few have any background in economics on management. i thought that a boom i'm going to make my project and be happy and everybody knows that and but i . just shut down a lot of numbers and procedures business plans and goals and there are those days shocking i learned a lot actually. the market in i never heard the voice i mean i never read that was there before i interrupt mr roy. so that's was it. a really

big good benefit for the. exchange student my life but should i'm a doctor i have nothing to lose business but when i take these lectures there used to be clear i know how to put my my blood my business done i know how to put my budget i know how to turn it. off and just. mushroom is not only about supporting entrepreneurship it also focuses on responsibility and making a positive contribution to society. food the traditional way of the west giving the gift to africa saying here's your money go and do it is not sustainable because once the money runs out the project stops or there is exhaustion from the west people who are fed up of giving money to africa we needed to teach the africans to look after themselves.

we're now near the white nile and the south of sudan a world away from continent. was the winner of the 1st season of master going in early 2014. it's not normal for a girl 82 with the parents of this area is that it's kane i'm not saying it's a business now it's become for me on the bench where we are in a very massive area that's full of wards that i can't see any babies around. and all we could see their view is moving around the. county normally works in. keisha training for women in khartoum but when she heard about a plague of want to hyacinths on the nile she decided to try to do something about it. let me laugh.

about that. and. we're very interested because last time we were in the book and i even thought that they have to go under the water difficult. i'm really appreciate the good they're doing for. water hyacinths were introduced to saddam in the 19th century as an ornamental pool plant they have since become an uncontrollable pest. these what i think is spread like a funder and it's really a growing very fast you can imagine that in one week this plant would multiply the $25.00 it's looking there are additional systems plant and that was going to move freely and even though the fisherman cannot use the catfish it's a good environment for most kids that part aside was even inside the woods oh yeah it's kind of a nightmare for the people here. attempts to

cut down the spread of water hyacinths have so far failed even weed killers were simply absorbed by the plant. some are all god he had the idea of using them as a free resource to make decorative items back some small pieces of furniture out of their stamps. i think this is the unique amongst my business that you don't need as kind of prize ecology and it can be very suitable for says can country life so that. it gets you i'm using such kind of a normal kind of tools you don't have to go for it kind of felt advanced for example it's tools i'm just using a caesars and not want to spray out and use even if you don't haave then you can just spray with your hand so kind of easy way i mean especially for people who doesn't have a huge cabbage down to size

a business. for an hour she makes the items herself at home in her free time. to. put. some al-ghamdi sounds her products on the internet and at a small shop. play here some of the new things are made that they should be on display here. i we can this can we make some space for them i can set them up for you to come out of. a quarter of the contestants on mash or on our women and that mark something of

a revolution in sudan just a few years ago young women were still expected to marry and raise a family going to college or setting up a business was practically unheard of measure oil is contributing to a change in social norms and the advancement of women. we are living now in a painful condition that we need the cooperation between we as women and the main for the bitterness any woman who was young i guess lives now and women now are very aware of their rise they are looking forward to gets what they want from the life it is the us we are part of so the news is that women and we are proud of that actually. many women have reached out to the t.v. contest winner to tell her she has been a source of inspiration among them a young woman who wanted to drop out of school. after hugh was mature as she

watched my journey doing that so i she just decided that he'd have to walk her down by the fish and she won't even go for the 4 how must only be. when it's all the all the problem on the bus to go that he faced with me i think the out there will again is how growing folded her education and they were allowed to give her the arrange of mary is what i do for my cousin or someone. while masher or i may have opens new horizons turning a vision into reality remains a challenge the team and mohammed to been trying for months to get a permit to deploy their drones even as the desert keeps advancing like here by trees have been planted as part of the great grey. in wall project. the greenbelt was a battle there so that if you. destroy every single point

every single city. another problem for the team and mohamed is failing to find an investor to back pham project despite their triumph on mash royale entered on startups can't get funding either from the government or from banks still the 2 want to keep trying. some buying through feel why we have to give up to. be a lot of them all. but when to me when we are going to be when. we are fight. and was somebody i was facing the jelling face to face. they are in a long line every day there's investigation that will get with us we have to take them you don't do. gardy has not been able to expand her business

either due to the still fragile state of a sudanese economy. many factors were just up to operate due to these sanctions we cannot even get absence to even information sometimes when you get into a website. information the country so you can imagine how we are suffering. meanwhile candidates for the latest series of the show are hoping to make it into the final 12. this team wants to develop an iris scan as a diagnostic tool. i am not among those chosen by the jury to appear on the show some are

gardy has come to cheer on the candidates and in this case to offer consolation and encouragement. don't be upset. just keep working on your project. the jury said you should carry on after the contest is over. while most a from the british council has spent weeks working with a candidate song that projects. when they reach this point out of sauza a sawzall rb case. i wish him all the best and i hold up because he knew them all with those old bottle albums that i actually this is a days come if you suffer this is. the sea for all for the new generation of the. several dozen startups of involved with the help of natural laws but for the seeds of hope to sprout and flourish and saddam people will need more than one t.v.

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