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Item New life from a dam(2018-10) Hamid, Awadalla"My position in my community has given me a power to participate in different issues related to livelihood and services that needed by my community, such as discussion on water for agriculture and domestic use". Hawa Zakeria – 32 years Hawa is married with 5 children (all boys), she lives in Majdoub village about 25km in west of Elfashir the capital city of North Darfur state in Sudan. Hawa said "before the construction of Seil Meit water weir I was poor, I have not been able to produce any agricultural production for several years, due to the drought and lack of rainfall, and in addition to that water goes through deep gulls thus water cannot be spread over our farming fields. One of very important meeting that I was involved in; the meeting regarding the construction of water weir. The participants were native administration, community leaders and Practical Action. When all the partners decided to construct the water weir my role was to mobilize the local resources and as well as the mobilizing the community to participate in weir construction. Hawa said when the flood came for the first time over our fields we came out to welcome it as we usually go out to welcome Eid Al-adha". She went saying the first flood brought a lot of dead trees that we used for cooking purposes for three months, she said the project also endowed as with different skills such as extension packages that related to agriculture and animal husbandry, in the past we depend on only one crop which is Tabaco, the problem with Tabaco it is long seasonal crop that last for seven month before you get the crop ready for market, in this long season we suffer a lot we work every day, we get hungry during the day because none part of the crop is eatable. But the situation has change now; we grow different short season crops such as sorghum, sesame, watermelon, okra groundnut, these crops have helped us to fight against hunger, poverty in addition to that we have good access to market due to the crop diversification. Farmer field schools approach: I have learnt new technologies through farmer field schools, these technologies are; certified seeds, crop diversification, pest control, land preparation, appropriate timing for plantation, seed propagation, agro-process and crop harvesting techniques. These technologies have helped me a lot to increase the production both qualitatively and quantitatively. Crop diversification has helped me a lot to have a varied meal and soil conservation through cultivating the legumes. During the rainy season I used to take sweat sorghum (the stem not seeds) to the nearby markets; revenues vary between 300 -500SDG per day, I have been able to buy goats for dairy production for my children, benefiting from plant residues, other than in the past because Tobacco does not fit as animal fodder, from the revenues also I paid school fees for three of my children