 Limpopo River, a lifeline to many farmers living near its banks. But come dry season, most of the river dries up, resulting in low agricultural productivity. Prolonged droughts due to climate change make farming extremely difficult, if not impossible. However, under the seemingly dry riverbed, nature has a surprise. Below the sand lay vast reservoirs of fresh water ready to be used. In the local community, there's a local knowledge where people used to go to the sand and scoop the holes. And they used to drink that water and also to use that water for multiple uses in domestic level. From that local knowledge, we tried to see how we can bring the science in order to make it sustainable and also develop the local community. So that's why we became fascinated and we started to understand the Sand River Hydrology System. Now sand rivers are in fact systems that have developed in big rivers through weathering and erosion of rock and then transport of sand over large distances and accumulation in the riverbed. And that storage is very significant, it's nature-based storage that counts, that is replenished every year by high flow of river water. So already back in 2016, we started working together on research of these systems and because there was an idea that there's great potential in these river systems that in some countries is used, but in Mozambique it's still heavily underused. And the main idea was to see its potential for small scale irrigation for individual farmers and water supply of small communities. So around 2019, we built a training program to train trainers at the Polytechnic Institute who then would further develop those trainings towards these district officers. The training is aimed at capacitating our professionals at ESPG in the technology which was developed for manual drilling of boreholes in aquifers from sand rivers to ensure that there's multiple use services for the development of rural communities. After the training of trainers was done at ESPG, then these trained professionals then go out into the community to train the rest of the community. In this case, we had two TMTs. The first one we trained technicals from the Stai STPE from the north of Gaza province as well as three Polytechnic institutions which are here in Mozambique. So with the TMT too, we're training the rest of the province of Gaza including people from the province and national side. So there is a great challenge to find alternatives to be able to ensure water supply in the communities of the region. And this alternative can be found with the help of underground water. And as we can see from the training we had at ESPG, that in the next three years it will be possible to find it. One of the best advantages of this system is that it is very simple and all the material can be acquired locally. We have just the normal PVC pipes which can be used in the drilling system. It doesn't require a lot of force in order to drill a borehole, especially when it's in a sandy region. The equipment which is required to extract the water, in this case it's a solar powered pump. The advantage is it doesn't need to use any fuel so it's really environmentally friendly. And it's easy to carry, it's easy to use, which is why anyone can be able to use this technology, even the elderly. To get support in order to allow us to continue with this training we should have support from the national government because this is all about helping them to achieve what have been planned for the development in different regions of Mozambique. So with this training I think that we have shown the community and also the local government that yes it's possible to have the semi-added areas contributing to the socio-economic development of the country. It's very important for us to be able to work together and to have the opportunity to work together. It's very important for us to have the opportunity to work together and to have the opportunity to work together. So the principal question at the end of this TMT, what was the impact? Four team districts were trained in the province of Gaza from the district services from agriculture and from infrastructure which services targeting agriculture in the communities and rural water supply. So other projects also saw the benefits of what we're doing and so we had spin-off from other projects who are adapting the technology. We've got other people thinking the same way that we're also thinking of developing the rural communities. To facilitate uptake, we linked the trainings to local suppliers and businesses such as well-training services, PAN and solar panels supply companies and potential donor and credit programs. The message I have for this course is to thank you. We learned what we didn't know. We're seeing that this can bring us a lot of advantages. We're going to produce a lot without spending a lot of fuel. So the message is that it will always continue to give us training of this nature that is to awaken the interest of agriculture. As a result of all this training, there is going to be a center of excellence in ESPD. So there will be more trainings that are going to happen in this technology. We want to go nationally and that is our intention. We play the important part of this training so that we can be able to respond to this deficit. It's a congratulations project, it's a congratulations project. And I took all of this out to win as a province. Thank you very much.