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Halima Bare walked 50 kilometres with her seven children to get to Elado village, after the drought killed 35 or her 40 livestock. The five remaining cows are too weak to stand. Her husband has gone away to search for pasture, and Halima is alone struggling to support her children:

“I don’t have enough for these children. We can’t get cash to purchase basic food items so mostly I rely on relief food. Our journey here was slow, we moved a small distance each day with the small children on a donkey and the elder children walked. Where we came from, water was the biggest problem. But here I can take a bath and wash our clothes - there is at least a water source here.

“My children used to be dependent on those animals. We used to sell them and buy them some clothes, buy them some rations. Now we are trying to find an alternative. When I was 18, 19, 20 there was plenty of milk, plenty of meat. Now things have changed, and a very big change for our lifestyle. Now we rely on a very small amount of powdered milk we buy from the kiosks. We have one meal a day – lunch. My children were used to milk and were brought up on that, but with the changing environment we are changing the food we eat. They have had diarrhoea for some time. The children are learning how hard it is.”
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