Closer to town, the trucks with relief grain drive towards us. The war against Eritrea seems to be extremely popular - even here in the South where people traditionally do not have very warm feelings for the ruling group, the Tigrineans from northern Ethiopia. Now we re all equally poor. We have lost all our cattle and we can no longer feed ourselves. Usually, we would help each other cope with hard times but everyone is under this pressure so we all have to fend for ourselves.
Every day is a fight for survival and for food.
If you re strong enough you can try to find work. Or go to the woods for firewood to sell. If we do not find any we ll just have to starve. Back then before the drought we did not loose our cattle. Now we ve lost everything.