ethiopian woman makes from cow dung fuel disks

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Ethiopian woman makes from cow dung fuel disks

Ethiopia, Oromia district, village Mojo: Oromo, largest Ethiopian ethnic population group, woman that is flattening cows flat, dung, to make a disk of it with her bare hands and adding straw. The female stacks the discs up to dry in the sun. The dry plates are used as fuel for cooking. The woman with dirty working clothes and a headscarf sells these records at her house and market and this work of this poor woman is here daily life and source of income. Making money with the collecting and recycling, reuse, of the feces, shit, of cattle. This poor woman lives in a poor mud hut, under poor living conditions she has to see to survive.