page_title: Melfa (Dogu'a Tembien)
section_title: Livelihood
hierarchical_section_title: Melfa (Dogu'a Tembien) / Geography / Livelihood
caption_attribution_description: English: signboard for Melfa School WatSani
context_page_description: Melfa is a tabia or municipality in the Dogu'a Tembien district of the Tigray Region of Ethiopia and ancient capital of Tembien. The tabia centre is Melfa village itself, located approximately 3 km to the west of the woreda town Hagere Selam.
context_section_description: The population lives essentially from crop farming, supplemented with off-season work in nearby towns. The land is dominated by farmlands which are clearly demarcated and are cropped every year. Hence the agricultural system is a permanent upland farming system.
  Melfa, and more precisely the May Sa'iri school is one of the first places in Ethiopia where Ecosan toilets were built.
caption: Signboard for Melfa School WatSani
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