 Howdy, this is James with Dry Land Solutions. We are a new ecosystem restoration camp in Garoway, Somalia that is working to care for people and the planet by creating a demonstration site for sustainable development. We aim to forge a better future based on ethical and sustainable livelihoods for all and to mitigate the climate crisis via the restoration of degraded landscapes. In coordination with the local government, we have been granted 866 hectares to begin our work. The climate is arid and rainfall is erratic. When it does fall, it can cause flash floods. The landscape is severely eroded. Overgrazing, the consumption of wood for fuel and climate change have all reduced the capacity of this land to sustain life. The establishment of basic amenities such as human needs infrastructure based on appropriate technologies as well as the reinstatement of ecological cycles via earthworks and tree planting, the establishment of an ecotourism center, food production, and animal husbandry are all among our primary objectives. We will develop diverse income streams with our work in ecological restoration which will serve as a means for education, marketing, and community functions of the camp by regenerating the site's natural resources over time. To restore the hydrologic cycle of this landscape, we need to slow, sink, and store all the water that we can. We will do this by installing check dams and the goalies that run through the property. Each check dam will have a spillway where any overflow water will feed into swales which will spread the water across the landscape. Roads throughout the property will be positioned on contour wherever possible and can double as swales to harvest all runoff. Wells will be required for the tree nursery and for staff use. A water budget has been calculated to ensure more water is harvested by the landscape than would ever be extracted via a well. The entire water system will harvest up to 710 million liters of water per year which would otherwise have ran off the property, taking valuable topsoil with it. Here you can see all the elements which will be included in the camp. A tree nursery, housing for staff, a chicken coop to supply eggs and compost, paddocks for grazing animals, a multifunctional windbreak which can be coppiced periodically to supply livestock with fodder, as well as an agroforestry system to supply fruit, nuts, and other goods. We will plant 150,000 trees and develop cropping and holistic grazing systems which will not only secure ecological abundance on our site but can be replicated on other sites in similar bioregions. Our aim is self-sufficiency, although initial funding will mostly be from external sources. We have partnered with ecosystem restoration camps as well as keratos, Somalia, and are looking for other organizations that share similar environmental and social responsibilities. Via the sale of plants from our nursery and sale of produce such as locally harvested frankincense resin, we can bring money into the local economy. We will train members of the community in fields such as regenerative, agriculture, and natural building and support the creation of cooperative business models and marketing systems that benefit everyone involved. If you would like to learn more about the project, please visit the website www.drylandsolutions.org. On the website you will find sustainably sourced frankincense resin, t-shirts, as well as our donation link. You can also follow us on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram. Thank you.