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Lokol remembers how happy her husband was when the rains started.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After three years of drought, this rain would help provide nourishment to their 200 goats and it meant that Lokol could plant a small garden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe were very poor,\u201d Lokol says. \u201cWe started with just a few goats right after we got married. My husband was able to grow our herd tremendously over the years.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These goats were everything to Lokol and her family. More than just providing income, the herd would act as a marriage dowry for one of the family\u2019s four daughters. Lokol\u2019s husband was working hard to
increase the herd so he could provide the same for his other daughters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The rain was going to help make everything better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As the drops began to fall, Lokol\u2019s husband left the goats to graze by the river, the only place with grass for miles around, and returned home for supper, his first and only meal of the day. He was a happy man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But when the rain started to fall more heavily, Lokol\u2019s husband grew concerned and returned to the river with a few other men to check on the goats. He never returned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The entire village went to look for Lokol\u2019s husband and the other men the next morning but found devastation instead. The heavy rain had caused flash flooding along the once dry river. Not only had the flooding taken the life of Lokol\u2019s husband, but it had killed all 200 of the family\u2019s goats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe flood destroyed everything I have. My whole life was done in a matter of minutes. I don\u2019t know what to do; I am hopeless.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Just like that, a disaster that didn\u2019t even make a headline where we live made Lokol a widow with no way to provide for her daughters. Sadly, disasters impact people like Lokol the most. Poverty multiplies its effect, often with devastating consequences.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Una cat\u00e1strofe no tiene por qu\u00e9 aparecer en los titulares para devastar las vidas a su paso. Quienes viven en la pobreza sufren m\u00e1s y necesitan ayuda urgente.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28284,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[615,589],"tags":[6,8,36,1135],"class_list":["post-20651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-livelihoods","tag-disaster-relief","tag-emergency-response","tag-flood-flooding-floods","tag-goats"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20651"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45936,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20651\/revisions\/45936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}