Photos depicting the life of the people Berta, dresses diggers 'gold living north of owest' Ethiopia bordering Sudan riverside Wenghele.
THE GOLD OF THE BERTA PEOPLE
I've been to the North West of 'Ethiopia on the border with Sudan to search for the Tribe Berta.
The People Berta lives in some villages along the river Wanghel near the border of Sudan in an inaccessible area about 50 km. North of Assosa.
The Berta are a nation of diggers 'gold that always dig into the narrow river Wanghel of huge holes and wash the debris with the' water using as sieves of large wooden bowls. This task is entrusted to the women at the end of the day, if they are lucky, leading to the village to their men straws d 'gold found.
The head of the family sells the earned gold to buyers who turn in the villages to collect.
Women are the river throughout the day with an infernal heat that often reaches 40 degrees, work eat, breastfeeding and caring for their children and sometimes sleep on the spot while the husbands to the village involved in trading of 'gold and waiting for buyers drink and playing cards discussing at 'shade of their tents.
Unfortunately the Government Ethiope sold concessions for the exploitation of the goldfields to a multinational company while performing surveys for assessing the extent of the groundwater is also buying from local areas.
This is one of the last frontiers Ethiopian that, like the Omo Valley, desert of salt in depression Denakil and Water well who sing in Somaly , are gradually disappearing overwhelmed by' relentless urge of Western cultures and modern technologies.