After the IRC rehabilitated a water point closer to her home, 25-year-old Sheyte Amdu was able to stay in her village—otherwise, she would have been forced to flee.
Sheyte Amdu, a 25-year-old farmer and mother living in southwest Ethiopia, would start her trek for water at midnight, walking for hours in search of puddles that hadn’t yet dried up, or else committing to the grueling 12-hour round trip with her donkey to the nearest working water point.