A Woman’s Life in Rural Ethiopia She is uneducated, married at a very young age to a man she has never met. She performs hard
work daily to get through the day. Before the sun rises, she wakes and prepares breakfast for the family. She fetches water from the river, often miles away, carrying her large clay pot on her back, walking barefoot for hours daily. She collects firewood from the forest, carrying the load on her shoulders through mountainous terrain. She carries the young on her back while she makes “injera”, the staple bread, inhaling the smoke from the open fire in the corner of her windowless one-room mud “tuckul”. She repeats this daily from sunrise to long after sunset, 365 days a year while bearing multiple children and hoping that she has earned the good will of her husband at her time of need.