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service by their own cars (minibus, Lonchina, IVECO trucks) dairy farming bake enjera for others, work as farm labourer, cutting wood for others, they plaster a house with mud etc How do poor people get by? They take grains on credit, some engage in farm labour, stone production, and assistance from relatives within and from other places outside Sirba They survive by farm labour, and other labour work like fencing, doing labour work during construction of a house, by extracting stone, by getting grain from relatives as assistance These people beg by moving from door to door. Community members give them food, clothes and also people from church sometimes give them money Changes in last 10 years in propns of each category (more or Those who were very rich in the past 10 years, became richer but a Those who were rich at that time now Those who were middle class ten years ago, mostly became poor ten years ago most joined middle class and few Some became middle class mainly those who are able to plough Those who were destitute in the past ten years were about 6 all died and the last death was
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