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 or sorry. residents of this village trying to protect their homes but it's an uphill battle. and it's still a duck i think if you dig down 3 or 4 metres you'll find the house. or the well it's down there to. the house is totally covered. and that's the rule 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 belief as though they were 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 and so down no one expects any help from the government in the distant capital khartoum. their leader of 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. clear off the mongol is the height of 4 to 5 meter is all of the 4 meter cover by the sun. like this a 3rd. i said maybe it is the may 30th survival 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 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. little was valid because. the issue a. good true but barlow was the 1st i. remember about that welcome mohamed of the lao and engineer hakim of. the 2 men want to plant trees to try to hold back the sand with the help of drums the 11

you have 3 minutes the stage is the ones. 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 project 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 trees. the t.v. show mash through i are lousy young people to showcase their business ideas unlike similar shows in western countries mash roy ends 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. by the certification. the case here since from the sky with this pain to cover a wide range of the area are all of the village. houses so the movie. so well suited to the task because they grow deep and extensive roots that bind sand and soil and help make it fur time again.

electromechanical but. 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 in our vast technology. nothing nothing comes must and it's. so. off to you or something like that to bring everything we need we can get tell somebody of national organization because we are it's well done that's for danny what i mean is going to show. we are being like classified today's.

the team and mohamed are off to testify that drone in the countryside. there isn't flying my mind. so. it's hard to get. by the end of the day it's. just you never think that it will crash more than those are the. very latest dogs out. they need this big guy called my mom. the 2 inventors have been blocking 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. the

. good stuff it's not easy. because it's not. going to go you believe. you could go completely destroyed. back encounter. 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 their teeth 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 up with that if you bought it ashore and that was the money the whole concept of entrepreneurship at that time was not a known concept and was not one that was a tall inquiry so culturally. being one trip an area was not part of the sudanese culture nor mother you know would tell her son or daughter all daughter i want you to go and see the for a company and fail to never it's like study be a doctor be a lawyer be an engineer if you fail in all these ok 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 or a lawyer. but really from missouri one it was amazing to us not only what about but 5000 participants 55000 applicants in missouri one but then being engaged meant once it 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 vote. and they both saw him again so it really was all wow dissolute to think it would be like this. in fact natural why has become the most popular t.v. show in sudan. globally khartoum ranks among for 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 it all miserable of 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. 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. i know what. i am one of the people who have been inspired by my choice. and 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's so now that's what everybody here dreams of. to make entrepreneurial dreams a reality is far from easy. in sudan the government offers no ground so other kinds of support for startups mass drawing tries to film the camp it offers candidates workshops on issues such as funding planning and marketing. she's thinking about reaching the small farmers are in town for so doing the small farm and most of them they don't know that technology 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 frost before work across people who are already part fertiliser from. there can you identify the people who are already buying fritters or from. and if you convince them they will go to the farmer on your behalf the people attending the workshops hear much more passionate they really want to learn . they're very enthusiastic lots of questions they want to talk about it a lot and i compare it to people 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 think that they bloom i'm going to make my project and be happy and everybody goes back and look but i. was just shocked you know a lot of numbers and procedures business plans and goals and whatever those days

shocking i learned a lot actually like the markets and i never heard the voice i mean i never read that before i intend to destroy. so that was. a really big good benefit for the exchange standby life i should undertake that i have nothing to do his business but when i think. dave used to be clear i knew how to put my my plan my business plan i know i do my budget i know how to turn it. off and this. mushroom is not only about supporting entrepreneurship it also focuses on responsibility and making a positive contribution to society. through the traditional way of the wish to be not give to africa saying here's the money go

or do it is not sustainable because once the money runs out the project stops or there is a source 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. was the winner of the 1st season of master going in early 2014. it's not normal for a hero they need to deal with the parents in this area is that it's kane i'm not saying it's a business now it's become for me at the bench where the end of a massive day yeah that's what was happening i couldn't see any of aids around. and all he could see there he was moving their own damn.

god he normally works in vocational training for women in khartoum but when she heard about a plague of water hyacinth soma nial she decided to try to do something about it. would mean that. it was. very interesting because that's why we were in the book and i thought that they have to go on the boards 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 were going to spread like a funder it's really a growing very fast you can imagine that in one week this form through the month of like the $25.00 it's looking there are editions this team spirit and that was going

to be released and even the fisherman cannot easily catch fish it's a good environment for mosquitoes i got part of sides it was me inside the water oh yeah it's kind of a nightmare for the people the. attempts to cut down the spread of water hyacinth so far failed even weed killers were simply absorbed by the plant. some are 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 about my living is that you don't need as a kind of particle is you and it can be very suitable forces can come to light so that . you can see that i'm using such kind of

a normal kind of tools you have to go for a kind of advance for example tools i'm just using a caesar's not want to spray on you even if you don't hardly then you can just pray with your hands so kind of easy way of these especially for people who doesn't have a huge cabbagetown to start a business. for now as she makes the items herself at home in her free time. i. think. god is sells her products on the internet and at a small shop. here some of the new things have made it and

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 and sue down 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 all 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 i mean all of. us all yeah i guess ladies know when 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 mature she watched my journey doing that sign she just decided that she have to go for those higher education she won't even to go for the 4 how was the degree she went all the all the problem on the list of those that he faced with me i think the out there were against how go in full then how did you teach and they were allowed to get up the aryans of mary's one high before 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 my trees have been planted as part of the great green. war project. team. lose a battle to death so that if occasion strong every single point every single 30. another problem for the team and mohamed is failing to find an investor to back their project despite their triumph on mash arroyo in sudan 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 to me when we.

we are by. and watch somebody i was facing with fear is the fear is. all they are in the fault line every day there's investigation that will be with us we have to think that you've got to. surmount 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 operate due to these sanctions we cannot even get absence to even information sometimes when you get into a website it's not 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 they are 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 from the british council has spent weeks working with a candidate song that projects. for winners to reach this point out of sauza is a sawzall i became. i wish him the 1st and i hope that they continue to evolve with those old model almost as i actually this varies committees

so far this is a good to see for all for the new generation. several dozen startups have been launched with the help of mash roy but for the seeds of hope to sprout and flourish and saddam people will need more than one t.v. show. the.

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