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On the edge of Gargaara, where the wind blows dust through shelters made from scraps of cloth and sticks, Awo Awale stands outside her makeshift home. This fragile structure is so weak that even light rain sends her rushing outside with her two children.  

“When it rains, I take the kids out,” she says softly. “My house is made of cloth. I have no strength to build anything stronger.”  

For Awo, a widow and mother of two, the drought did more than dry up water sources; it uprooted her life completely. She moved from the mountains above Gargaara after losing both her parents, her livestock, and any source of support. She arrived with only her grief, remarried, had a daughter, and then faced another loss—divorce.  

“This drought separated families,” Awo explains. “It starves us. Everyone here has been affected the same