Impacts of Drought: Zahra's Story Print E-mail

 

Zahra Roble lives in Kalabaydh Village in Shinile Zone of Somali in Ethiopia. She is 30-years old and has 10 children. She used to be a pastoralist woman.

 

She said that this year, the Dera rains that come from March to May failed and so her and her family are experiencing drought. She observed that temperatures seem to be getting higher and higher every day, and obeserved that the Karan rains from July to September were not any better.

 

"The whole village is scared that this season the drought might be worse than last year," she said. "At the moment, we don't plan to migrate, because it is dry everywhere, unless we decided to move outside our normal territory. This would mean that we would have to move out of the country to Somali or Djibouti, which would be really hard."

 

"With the changes in climate, we have had to change our lifestyle including how we eat. I can no longer afford milk and meat. Now I feed my children on injera and black tea. I just hope that they don't become malnourished before the rains."

 

This short story from Zahra is part of a longer video by Save the Children UK in Ethiopia and CARE Ethiopia entitled: "No Time to Recover: The challenge for Borana and Somali pastoralist communities of Ethiopia to adapt to climate change."