Aminat keeps her family secure in a house with a zinc sheet roof.A zinc roof is a sign that Aminat has succeeded in gaining assets that usually only men control. Photo: CHF
in Afar region and Djibouti in search of jobs to support us, while I stayed home and took care of our family,” Marem says. In 2005, Marem and her husband, Mohamed
Abdi, participated in a series of PFS Project training workshops that taught them how they can respond to their poverty collaboratively. Together, they learned every management aspect of goat husbandry during the training sessions. “I was provided with five female goats from the
PFS Project, then my husband bought one male goat,” Marem says. “My husband planted a backyard forage tree species to support our household-level goat husbandry. He also constructed a separate house to better manage the goats and maintain the sanitation of the household compound in accordance with the training offered to us by the PFS project.” The family now has two oxen, one camel and forty-
five goats as their basic assets. This is allowing them to support their three daughters at school, while their son is under school age. What makes Marem and Mohamed Abdi different from others is that both husband and
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wife are working in a collaborative manner to rise out of poverty. “I had all of the responsibility and my husband had
all the authority—it was keeping our whole family poor. Our situation changed when my husband and I attended gender equality training. This gave us the time, skills and space to make some changes in our relationship, especially around decision-making,” says Marem.
Aminat Yimar Aminat keeps her family secure in a house with a
zinc sheet roof. A zinc roof is a sign that Aminat has succeeded in gaining assets that usually only men control.
Aminat Yimar is a resident of Mohamed kebele in
Bati district. She’s 36 years old, and has four daughters and a son. She lost all of her extended family during the 1984 drought. Although she married and had five children, she
and her husband couldn’t make their marriage work and he left her. After the entire household burden was
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