 We're at the Pyramids of Meroe, the graves of the kings and of the queens of Meroe in northern Sudan along the River Nile. An empire which stretched from here in Sudan all the way to Jerusalem to the southern Lebanon where the 25th dynasty of the pharaohs was contesting the world with the Syrians. So we're in a very very historic place in a very symbolic place as well for this ancient civilization of Sudan. What's not obvious is the diversity of the people first of all but also the diversity of the landscapes from a basically tropical full of water south to a desert. This is one thing. The other thing is also the depth of history. It's easy to hear that yes there are more pyramids in Sudan than in Egypt but you really have to ask people and to read up in order to understand if you're not a specialist of this history in order to understand what this actually represents here. And it's not just a place we are here now at. Simply one of the great civilizations of this world which has conquered and defended and conquered again and lost and conquered again big swaths of the antique world and was measured itself against the other big civilizations at the time and somehow there is no way this cannot have an impact until today and I think that's part of what you feel simply as you walk around but you need to dig a little bit or to travel a little bit to places with hardly ever anybody comes to like the one we are here the heart of an ancient super king. In Sudan you can walk in Khartoum night you can sit down anywhere drink coffee or a tea and nobody will bother not because they ignore you or they disrespect you but they don't bother you're just you're just part of being there and that's fine for everybody. It's this incredibly generous open-hearted atmosphere of people who are just incredibly nice. I have not seen that anywhere else and it's something I personally have the impression nobody knows who has not been to Sudan. You really have to be here to understand what it means to encounter people who are so at ease with themselves that they can be so generous with everybody else. It's fascinating it's absolutely fascinating. We have seen over recent decades a brutal civil war in the south which has led to the split up of the country in two then everybody is aware of Darfur with untold suffering and we are still in a situation where you have both in Darfur ongoing remnants of this big conflict it's smaller now but it's still there and where you have in the south of Sudan in two states Blue Nile and South Codafone particularly where you have a combination of displacement refugees and ongoing fighting which continues to affect tens and hundreds of thousands of people in this country. Yes we are assisting with food yes we're assisting with health or education or bringing families back together but in the end it's about the dignity of the people where you see it may be most in the work we're doing here in Sudan most immediately is when somebody who cannot walk anymore because he or she lost the leg is then suddenly able to lead a normal life because this limb has been artificially replaced and it's not artificial dignity it's real dignity but through an artificial means so this giving back some self-respect to people who have gone through the worst in life is something which which makes you get up in the morning and want to do more of that. What gives me in the end that the biggest joy is to be able to make a difference for individuals for an individual human being who is affected by a horrible environment. Yes we do work for numbers but in the end you you look at the difference you can make to one person and to these many one persons.