what secrets lie behind these walls. discover new adventures in 360 degree. and explore fascinating world heritage sites. w. world heritage 360 getting up now. 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 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 meters 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 their i think that if you will 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. is the height of 4 to 5 meter is all of the 4 metre. by the sun. like the earth. maybe it is the may 30th certainly the. he also grows palm trees and has already lost $500.00 of them to the sand the rest will also soon be parent.

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 at 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 our bill land in sudan is in danger of being swallowed up by the desert. and the region is frequently percent by sandstorms known as haboobs. fell and because. he was sure he. could true but.

the fuss over. them about that well come on how many of the lao and engineer hakim. the 2 men want to plant trees to try to hold back the sand with the help of drs 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'll be made in sudan. they will plant seeds of acacia trees. the t.v. show mash through our allows young people to showcase their business ideas unlike similar shows in western countries mash roy 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 another. car to the capital of sudan it's been 2 years since mohammed and her team won 1st prize on mushroom why 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. use the. bodies or to. the case here

scenes from the sky with this plane load to cover a wide range of the area are all of the village. houses so the movie. acacias are well suited to the task because they grow deep and extensive roots that bind sand and soil and help make it fun time again. electromechanical. if we can't find this device in the market. in many other regions of the world it will 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 that's what's 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 the national organization because we are it's with us for that i mean that the rain

is going to show. you are being lied classified us today's. the team and mohammed are all to testify that drone in the countryside. there is implying my mind. it's hard to get. by the end of the day in such a test you never. know that it will crash more than 2000. and 30 they've just got something. big is that they got called by mind. the 2 inventors have been working on the project weekends and evenings for more than 5 years by profession they're 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 not easy. maybe it'll take you to. believe in. you know. it's not cool because the road. 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 textile production. made i mean up there letty for the president of c.t.c. set up a televised contest together with the sudanese young businessman's association and the british council. to come out of that if you will probably right now with them and the whole concept of entrepreneurship at that time was not a known concept and was not one that was at all encouraged so culturally. being entrepreneurial is not part of this with anees culture no mother you know would

tell her son or daughter all daughter i want you to go and does the for a company and fail to meet never it's like study be a doctor be a lawyer be an engineer if you fail in all these all day what can we do then maybe you can go and start them and. at the beginning it wasn't clear if anybody would be interested in a show like mash or a lawyer. but really from missouri one it was amazing 2 was not only what about what 5000 participants 55000 applicants in missouri want but then the engagement wanted started to go live on t.v. and on social media. you know every one from that person's area or region would be watching and voting and they both go in again for the lead it was the wildest loses it could be like this. but in fact national oil 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. many of them don't have any steady employment and trying to get by doing odd jobs. whether young or old rich or poor almost everybody in khartoum knows mash through i . love it i go home is wrestling with the devil and 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 i mean that is you. can't see young people of mind i wish there were more shows like it because the younger generation are in a saudi state they have a lot to offer they just need some help getting started. i know what. i am one of the people who have been inspired by my choice of it he 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 i know that's what everybody here dreams of. in the couple. to make entrepreneurial dreams a reality is far from easy in sudan the government offers no grant so other kinds of support for startups match drawing tries to fill the gap it offers candidates workshops on issues such as funding planning and marketing.

she's thinking about researching this more fires for example so do your schools farm 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 rate you will be one of the towns that we can use into research that. the question is if you understand a customer who does the farmer trust a farmer process because they're already buying fertilizer from. so can you identify the people who are already buying fritters or 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 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 yours to.

the candidates might be very keen but few have any background in economics on management. i thought that i'm going to make my project and be happy and everybody goes home and book but i. shut down a lot of numbers and procedures business plans and goals in the over those days shocking i learned a lot actually like the market in i never heard the word i mean i never worried about it before i entered the story. so that was. a really big good benefit for me. it's changed scanned my life actually i'm a doctor i have nothing to do with business but when i take this lectures there used to be clear i know how to put my my plan my business done i know. my budget i know how to track. and this. measure of oil

is not only about supporting entrepreneurship it also focuses on responsibility and making a positive contribution to society. 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 who are fed up of giving money to africa we needed to teach the africans through look after themselves. we're now near the white nile and the south of sudan a world away from khartoum for. some was the winner of the 1st season of master going in 2014. it's not

normal for a nearly 80 to the jail to come into this area. i'm not saying it the moon is now it's become for me on the bench near the end of a massive area that's full of wards where i can see any ladies around so. i'm the only could see their view is moving around the. gandhi normally works in vocational training for women in khartoum but when she heard about a plague of war to hyacinths on the nile she decided to try to do something about it. i. mean that. was very interesting because last time we were in the book and i thought that they have to go under the water are difficult. i'm really appreciative of their being frank but. water hyacinths were introduced to saddam in the 19th century as an

ornamental pool plant they have since become an uncontrollable past. these wild. if he was prez like a funder it's move those growing very fast you can imagine that in one week this plant would multiply the $25.00 it's looking there are additional systems he had found the was going to move freely and even the fisherman cannot easily catch fish it's a good environment for mosquitoes on i doubt parasites who is living inside the woods oh yeah it's kind of a nightmare for the people the. attempts to cut town the spread of water hyacinths half 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 among my living these days you don't need as kind of principle as you and it can be very suitable for says can't come to life so that. you can see that i'm using such kind of a normal kind of tool you have to go forth kind of advance for example tools i'm just using a caesar's and not want to spray and even if you don't haave then you can just pray with your hands so kind of easy way i mean this is vision for people who doesn't have a fuse can be down to size and business. for now as she makes the items herself at home in her free time.

now i. think. some are all gandhi who sells her products on the internet and at a small shop. played here some of the new things that made it they should be on display here. i'm convinced 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 owing is contributing to a change in social norms and the advancement of women. we are living now in

a kind of a condition that we need the cooperation between we as women and the name for the bitterness any woman. yeah i guess ladies you know women now are very aware of their rights they are looking forward to gets what they want from the life you can see us we are part of the new 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 he was measuring to watch my journey doing that time she just decided that she has to go for those higher education she won't even to go for the 4 how moscow degree she went 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 go in for all that how did you creation and they were 2 allowed to

give her the arrange of marriage for hiding for my cousin or someone. 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 where the trees have been planted as part of the great or. in war project. the green belt was a battle by their so that if you. draw every single point every single day. another problem for the team and mohamed is failing to find an investor to back their project despite their trial on mash roy in saddam startups can't get funding

either from the government or from banks still the 2 want to keep trying. sometimes we feel like we have to give up to. be a lot of them all. but when we when we. we are fight for and was somebody i was facing the challenge face to face. they are in the fault line every day there's investigation that motivate us we have to take them you don't do. guard he 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 due to these sanctions we cannot even get absence or even information sometimes when you get into a website it's not the bill that was information that 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. but. 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 the boy while most from the british council has spent weeks working

with a candidate song that projects. when they reach a point out of sauza a 1000 i became. i wish him the best and i hope that they continue their work those older model homes and i actually this a days come if you suffer this is i've got to see for all for the new generation. of several dozen startups have been launched with the help of mash. but for the seeds of hope to sprout and flourish in saddam people will need more than one t.v. show the be. the. model.

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