Saturday, May 24, 2008

More on Addis Ababa: You really can carry this kind of a load on your back



But who would want to?

Yet they do, the women, every day, up and down Mount Entoto, which overlooks the capital. I saw women - begging women - hunched over to this extent who weren't carrying large loads of timber on their back, and spotted a sign for The Former Women's Fuel Wood Carriers Association.

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