The Firewood Women in Addis
On the road up to Entoto, which goes up past Shiro Meda, many women can be seen carrying these huge loads of firewood.
They go up to the forest to collect it and then carry it down on their backs. They take it to sell in the city, to earn a few birr.
No men do this to earn money - I've only ever seen women, and girls, doing it. The loads they carry must be so heavy, they are bent almost double carrying them down the hill. They walk several km carrying the load.
I don't think this is going to change until there are better opportunities for women to earn a living. Why the many unemployed young men hanging around Shiro Meda don't try it, I don't know....I think this society sees the gathering, and therefore carrying, of firewood as a woman's job and that's not going to change any time soon.
They go up to the forest to collect it and then carry it down on their backs. They take it to sell in the city, to earn a few birr.
No men do this to earn money - I've only ever seen women, and girls, doing it. The loads they carry must be so heavy, they are bent almost double carrying them down the hill. They walk several km carrying the load.
I don't think this is going to change until there are better opportunities for women to earn a living. Why the many unemployed young men hanging around Shiro Meda don't try it, I don't know....I think this society sees the gathering, and therefore carrying, of firewood as a woman's job and that's not going to change any time soon.
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