We used to travel to faraway towns such as Zalambessa and Adigrat in order to buy cereals which were carried on the backs of donkeys for days, up and down the mountain paths.

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When the Adigrat Diocese Development Action (ADDA) project, with support from the Catholic Church, started working in the Irob area in the mid-1970s, it stimulated community action to make larger dams more quickly in order to create more land that could be used in ways determined by the community.

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