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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-14-11 08:15 PM
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ETHIOPIA: Somalis living from drought to drought
BISLE (SOMALI REGION), 12 July 2011 (IRIN) - Every day, 500g of boiled wheat is divided up between two adults, four children, a calf, a goat and a donkey in the Farah household. It is the only food they have had after rains failed for the past two seasons.

The 15kg sack of wheat is provided to about 1,200 people in the Bisle area, which has four settlements, under the government-run Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP) as payment for work, such as digging water holes.

"It is boiled wheat for breakfast and for the main meal – we don't have anything else – no milk, no meat, no vegetables, no oil," says Maria Farah, the mother. Not surprisingly, two of her children are severely malnourished.

The calf and goat that share their "ari" - a collapsible egg-shaped hut made of sticks and covered with sheeting – are emaciated. It is too hot for them outside, in temperatures that soar beyond 40 degrees Celsius.

http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93200
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