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“This workshop came along at the right time”
![Expert on mission Clayton Covel readies a drone to collect a water sample from the crater of Santa Ana. Photo: WFP/Katarzyna Chojnacka](/sites/default/files/inline-images/1_JLP5fyM9TDty7t7hRbcW_Q.jpeg)
Eduardo Gutiérrez works for the volcanic monitoring agency in El Salvador, a country with 23 volcanoes, six of which are active. Last Saturday, the participants and training team hiked to the top of Santa Ana volcano to take a water sample from the crater, which can be used to track seismic activity. This usually requires a team of firefighters to descend into the crater — a high-risk mission into poisonous water and gases that is scheduled every couple of years.
Read the full story here written by Tej Rae, who covered the first-ever Regional WFP Drone Workshop in Central America during June 2019.