My name is Carlos Chercoles, I am a photographer and filmmaker. I travelled to Sudan and Ethiopia in 2019. I found communities at the very edge of extintion. Konso is a town in southeastern Ethiopia and the administrative center of the special region of Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples. An area with such diversity and cultural richness that it was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2011. The need to empathize arises from a fundamental problem that we cannot ignore. It is our way of life that endangers these populations. It is the factories that they do not have, the excessive modern consumption that they do not enjoy and irresponsibility with the environment that create adverse effects on the climate and, paradoxically, it is these peoples, who live in complete unity with the environment, who the more they suffer and the more vulnerable they are to these changes. THE PROBLEM In 2019 I conducted a study in 3 villages out of 44 in the Konso region. The three of them have the same problem: the growth of the city, deforestation and climate change reduced the flow of the river to a minimum; at the same time that the rains are increasingly scarce, and fires proliferate, even in the rainy season. This hinders access to drinking water and to that intended for animals and crops, which worsens the quality of life of the entire population, which is around 180 people. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: www.carchercoles.com
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