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13/20

Ethiopian woman in brightly coloured headscarf, crouches on dry, cracked earth in a dried riverbed, surrounded by five of her children. Parched ground stretches into the background, with sparse scrub and a few distant trees.

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Extreme weather events hit the poorest hardest. Orbisa and her children are shown here in a dried-up riverbed in a drought affected area of Ethiopia, where Tearfund responded by working through a local partner. | Photo credit: Chris Hoskins/Tearfund