so. in 45. dollars. what secrets lie behind these walls. discover new adventures in 360 degree. and explore fascinating world heritage site. d w world heritage 368 getting up now. in northern sudan for centuries people have lived in this area region eking out a modest living despite all odds but it is being buried under more and more sand blowing off for some. residents of this village trying to protect back home

but it's an uphill battle. and it is a duck i think if you dig down 3 or 4 metres you'll find the house. they live in the well is down there to. the house is totally covered. and that's the real for. some families have built 3 more stories on top of their original homes in less than 20 years everybody is battling the sand. there with. as they're going to do well because 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 who sign he moved here with his family 15 years ago. this is. 3 off the mongol is the height of 4 to 5 meter is all of the 4 metre of our. sun. like there is a 3rd. i said maybe it is the may 30th certainly the no further. he

also grows palm trees and has already lost $500.00 of them to the sand the rest will also soon be buried. at at the end it's hard to maintain them. it's hard to water them you need to use a lot of water for it to reach the roots at a depth of 3 metres and. at some point you just feel desperate. and he's one of countless farmers have acted about 70 percent of our bill and in sudan is in danger of being swallowed up by the desert. and the region is frequently percent by sand storms known as haboobs. the.

letter with a live feed. him assure you how good true but mom i was the 1st i. remember the other well come on ham it up below and engineer hakim. the 2 men want to plant trees to try to hold back the sand with the help of drums and i think you have 3 minutes the stages the ones. over the rubble but 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. our projects sap smart agriculture pilot will be the 1st airborne system in the world and it will be made in sudan it will plant seeds of acacia tree is. the t.v.

show mash through our lousy young people to showcase their business ideas unlike similar shows in western countries mash roy anxious 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 2 years since mohammed and her team won 1st prize on mash rely it brought them a 1000 euros a lot of attention and new contacts now they're working hard on finishing their prototype drone. that would.

have to pick asia. spread the case here since from the sky with this bailout over a wide range of the area are always if they didn't. house is. moving . so well suited to the task because they grow deep and extensive routes that bind sand and soil and help make it 1st time again. electromechanical but. 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 lost ecology. 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 the that national organization because we are in sweden that's for danny but i mean his country shall. we are being like classified us to today's. the team and mohammed iraq to testify that drone in the countryside. there isn't flying my mind. it's hard to get. by the end of the day it's just you just. never think that it will crash more than 2000 pounds very they've just got up. and they need this big guy called my mom. the 2 inventors have been working on the

project weekends and evenings for more than 5 years by profession that actually i.t. specialist. it's windy so the conditions for a maiden flight are far from perfect. me . because it's not it's nothing. they keep. wanting to go. you know. it's not completely destroyed.

back in khartoum. at the edge of the city of the headquarters of c.t.c. sudan's largest agro 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 textile production. are made i mean up there are t.v. the president of c.t.c. set up a televised contest together with the sudanese young businessman's association and the british council at the moment that you probably already know this and that the whole concept of entrepreneurship at that time was not

a known concept and was not one that was a tall encouraged so culturally. being entrepreneurial is not part of the sudanese culture is no mother you know would tell her son or daughter old daughter i want you to go and does the for a company and fail to never it's like study be a doctor be a lawyer be an engineer if you family and all these all day what can we do then maybe you can go and start. at the beginning it was unclear 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 those 5000 participants 55000 applicants in missouri one but then the engagement wanted started to go live on t.v. and also show me the. 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 wildest losing

to feel like this. was in fact national or has become the most popular t.v. show in sudan. global a cartoon 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. and. many of them don't have any steady employment and try to get by doing odd jobs. whether young or old rickshaw almost everybody in khartoum knows masher oh i.

love it i go miserable i'm with the devil in the show inspires you to work on your ideas in education and plans and to make something of yourself rather than just work for somebody else. young people of mind 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. on the work that. i am one of the people who have been inspired by my choice of it 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 so that's what it is and that's what everybody here dreams of a lot of in the couple of sudan. to make entrepreneurial dreams a reality is far from easy in sudan the government offers no grant so other kinds

of support for startups mass drawing tries to fill the gap it offers candidates workshops on issues such as funding planning and marketing. she's thinking about reaching this more fires for example so do you just call spam and most of them they don't know that acknowledge you and they don't have t.v. so what she thought about we thought about you know the radio will be one of the towns that we can use in to reach them. the question is if you understand your customer who does the farmer frost before work cross people they're already buying fertilizer from. the journey you identified the people who are already paying for it or those are from. and if you convince them they will sell to the farmer on your behalf the people attending the workshops here are much more passionate the really want to learn. they're very enthusiastic

a lot of questions they want to talk about it a lot and i compare it to be like a sponge and they want to treat it 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 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 words i never read that before i was roy. so that was. a really big benefit for me. it was changed my life actually i'm a doctor i have nothing to do with business but when i take this lectures they've used just to be clear i know how to work my my plan my business done i know how to

put my budget i know how to track. the addition of investors. smasher of oil is not only about supporting entrepreneurship it also focuses on responsibility and making a positive contribution to society. through the traditional way of the west giving the gift to africa saying here is the money go or do it is not sustainable because once the money runs out the project stops or there is exhaustion from the west people that 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 khartoum. summer

was the winner of the 1st season of national oil in 2014. it's not normal for a deer a lady to the jail to peer into this area that's ok you know i'm not saying it's a business now it's become for me on the bench or the end of a massive area that's all it's now at the end of it is around so. i'm the only crazy lady was moving around. the normally works in vocational training for women in khartoum but when she heard about a plague of water hyacinths on the nile she decided to try to do something about it . because i'm. confident with great interest because last time we were in the book and i thought

that they have to go under the water are difficult. i'm really appreciate the good they are doing fine but. water hyacinths were introduced to saddam in the 19th century as an ornamental pool plant they have since become an uncontrollable past. these was a misprint. lack of funding it's growing very fast you can imagine that in one week this plant would multiply the 25 it's looking there are differences team spirit and that was going to move freely and even the fisherman cannot easily catch fish it's a good environment for mosquitoes are part asides was needed inside the woods oh yeah it's kind of a nightmare for the people here. attempts to cut town the spread of water hyacinths half so far failed even weed killers were simply absorbed by the pond.

some oligarchy 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 among my linen is that hugh don't need as kind of principle as you and it can be very suitable forces can come to life so that. you can see that i'm using such kind of a normal kind of tool you have to go for it kind of felt a vase for example tools i'm just using a caesar's and not want to spray out and you know even if you don't haave the thing you can just spray with your hand so kind of easy way of business especially for people who doesn't have a huge cabbage does decide to mutiny is. for now she makes the items herself at home in her free time.

i pod. gardenias sells her products on the internet and at a small shop. play here are some of the new things that made it. they should be on display here. but i work in the can we make some space for them i can set them up for you cannot of you. a quarter of the contestants on mash are on are 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 oir 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 bitterness of the woman. who was all yeah i guess ladies now and women now are very aware of their rise they are looking forward to gets what they want from the life you can see us we are part of the new we man 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 he was she was sure she watched my journey during that time he decided that he has to go further out how to fish and she won't even google for the world how must only be. when it's all the

all the problem on the list to go that he faced with her family i think the out there will again is how growing folded her education and they were allowed to give her the a range of areas were high therefore i wasn't someone. while masher or i may have opens new horizons turning a vision into reality remains a challenge my team and mohammed to been trying for months to get a permit to deploy their drones even as the desert keeps advancing like here where trees have been planted as part of the great green wall project. being built to lose a battle there so that if you get. stronger you every single point every single 30.

another problem for the team and mohamed is failing to find an investor to back fam project despite their triumph on masher oil in sedan startups can't get funding either from the government or from banks. the 2 want to keep trying. sometimes we feel like we have to give up. here a lot of them all. but when to me when we were going to be able. we are by fall and was somebody i was facing the challenge face to face. all the faultline every day facing death of a geisha in that market where those we have today that 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 to stop to upgrade you to these sanctions we

cannot even get abscissa to even information sometimes when you get into a website it's not available to forage in 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 guardian has come to cheer on the candidates and in this case to offer consolation and encourage. don't be upset.

just keep working on your project. the jury said you should carry on after the contest is over. while mossad from the british council has spent weeks working with a candidate song that projects. winners they've reached this point out of sauza a sawzall i became. i wish him the best and i hope that they continue to work through those older model homes as i actually this is a days for me to suffer this is. the c 4 or the new generation. several dozen startups have been launched with the help of mash royal but for the seeds of hope to sprout and flourish and saddam people will need more than one t.v. show.

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