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Caption: _______ Just the Beginning Change and Community in
Haralo, Ethiopia
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Caption: Until recently, during the dry season, the women of Haralo left their homes each day before both the sun and their children awoke to begin a ten mile walk.
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Caption: Esnino, a mother to seven, used to join in the daily twenty-mile trek for water. She returned each day to unfed, unhealthy children whose faces she did not have enough water to wash.
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Caption: Not anymore.
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Caption: When asked what has changed since the people of Haralo established a year-round source of safe water last year, an older man named Turo replied...
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Caption: “This is just the beginning
of the change.”
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Caption: Education has become a priority.
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Caption: With their owns hands
they built a one-room school for their children.
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Caption: They are the
first in their families
to attend school.