Mrs. Rahwa Berhe is 25 years old and a mother of a child.
She is also taking care of her 72 years old grandmother with a chronic disease.
The conflict that erupted on November 2020 forced Rahwa and her grandmother to flee from their home town located in Western zone of Tigray region. Not only that, she also missed her husband amidst the conflict.
Being pregnant women coupled with bread winner of a family, made her life miserable.
When they arrived in Shire town, the only option to reside is a collective center readied to hosts many people in a narrow space.
As her grandmother is living with mental illness, Rahwa couldn’t find it the right place to stay at.
Particularly, they couldn’t cope up with noise heard from the crowd people. This also exposed her to see a further stressful situation. As a result she decided to look for a cheap rental house.
As the one and the only person to take care of her family, she opts for begging at lease for survival.
By the time, a project named as “Cash for Rent” has been implemented by Development For Peace Organization (DPO) where SWAN is the donor.
This brought Rahwa and her family good news to benefit from.
Thus, Rahwa expresses her gratefulness saying, “Thanks to DPO’s CFR program. Those worrisome circumstances get curbed. Now days, the challenges in connection to rental fee, privacy, dignity, the likely to expose for child hood disease and the anxiety of my grandmother solved.”
Furthermore she noted that, the support is a lifesaving, timely and allow feed her family.
DPO through its cash assistant program reached 833 HHs who have 5384 family members
( 2834 male and 2590 female) in western and North western Tigray region. The program the most vulnerable groups (i.e persons with disability, elderly people with chronic disease, pregnant and lactating women, child headed house hold, households with more than five families, households with members part of the vulnerability groups (infant, children, elderly).
