Kristian Buus

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Rabia is handing up a bowl of muddy water from below the river bed. It's dry season in Afar and water is hard to come by. Here a hole has been dug into the river bed to be able to find something to drink. Both animals and humans suffer in the dry season and travel long distances to find water and grassing. Rabia and her family are pastoralists and have come to water their goats. Action for Integrated Sustainable Development Association (AISDA) work in the AFAR region of Eastern Ethiopia, based in Delafagi. The Afars practise an old tradition of Female Genital Mutilation where the baby girls has her clitoris and labia cut away and her vagina sewn up. The day before her wedding day the girl is un-stiched ready for marriage. Its a brutal and barbaric tradition which AISDA is challenging with great effect, now more than a hundred girls in Dowe district have been saved from the knife and AISDA is now rolling out the scheme in Delafagi. Delafagi is where the oldest ever human remains have been found, the found is thought to be 4.5 mill years old.

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Delafagi, Afar. Ethiopia. IMG_9347.jpg
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Kristian Buus
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2012 STARS Award shortlisted organisations in Africa and Asia
Rabia is handing up a bowl of muddy water from below the river bed. It's dry season in Afar and water is hard to come by. Here a hole has been dug into the river bed to be able to find something to drink. Both animals and humans suffer in the dry season and travel long distances to find water and grassing. Rabia and her family are pastoralists and have come to water their goats. Action for Integrated Sustainable Development Association (AISDA) work in the AFAR region of Eastern Ethiopia, based in Delafagi. The Afars practise an old tradition of Female Genital Mutilation where the baby girls has her clitoris and labia cut away and her vagina sewn up. The day before her wedding day the girl is un-stiched ready for marriage. Its a brutal and barbaric tradition which AISDA is challenging with great effect, now more than a hundred girls in Dowe district have been saved from the knife and AISDA is now rolling out the scheme in Delafagi. Delafagi is where the oldest ever human remains have been found, the found is thought to be 4.5 mill years old.