Woman carrying water back to her shelter
{"Image ImageDescription": "Amina Ibrahim, 50, mother of 12 children originally from Qararo (about 30 km from Gunagado). She came here in 2017 after drought killed her family\u2019s livestock and an outbreak of AWD (probably cholera) endangered her family.\r\n\r\n\r\n\u201cWe lost our livestock, and we came here in search of food and water. We can\u2019t go back because we lost all our livestock. We are hoping for help from the government and NGOs.\u201d\r\n\r\n\r\n\u201cNow our children are in school here, and we feel like our life is starting again here.\u201d\r\n\r\n\r\n\u201cWe get food from DPP (Ethiopian government program), it\u2019s not constant (every one or two months), usually about 10kg of food, sometimes we get porridge from NGOs.\u201d\r\nShe says they have no transport, no way to travel to look for food or transport water. She adds that Oxfam helped her and others with installing a water tap, but that is not a constant source of water, \u201cso we go to the river\u201d which takes 1.5 hrs by foot round trip. Oxfam also provided soap, trucked in water, cash, plastic sheets and other shelter material, and public health promotion.\r\n\r\n\r\nBefore the drought she says her family had 150 sheep and 15 camels, they lost all of them. \u201cWe raised animals, we sold them to buy what we need, and we had water, nothing was missing at that time. We had what we needed. \r\n\r\n\r\n\u201cAfter that there was a cholera outbreak, it was the worst thing ever, since I was young I have never seen anything like it. We lost everything to eat and drink, then it was the worst disease I have ever seen in my lifetime. I was thinking I would die, thank God we are still alive.\u201d\r\n\r\n\r\nIn 2016 and 2017 she says \u201cthe rain was less and less, and the weather is a lot hotter now. We have no idea what is behind this, but I can tell you there is a lack of rainfall and it is a lot hotter climate now.\u201d\r\n\r\n\r\n\u201cWe want to stay here and live, so the children can go to school, diversify our livelihood and live near town.\u201d\r\n\r\nIbrahim is thinking about the future, since she and her family know about livestock she thinks they could possibly be livestock traders, but also thinks that to be doing more than just that she should get some training and also engage in petty trading in other things. \r\n\r\n\r\n\u201cI am starting to recover from the drought,\u201d she says, noting that some here are getting business training and can get a loan to start a food business and start making the cash to pay back loans.", "Image XResolution": "300", "Image YResolution": "300", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered"}