Ethiopia Family in Crisis - Joaquim Carlos Vieira (cameraman) & Mary Ferreira (producer)

Ayatu Nure lives is an ethiopian that followed an old traditional from his people and took more than one wife. In fact he crossed all bounderies. Married with 12 wifes he has 78 children. Once a healthy landowner, today he hardly feed his family.

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[eneideias]

It's easy to realize that Mr. Ayatu Nure is handling a family of more than 100 people. This man had lots of proporty and catle. Today he has small portion of that and no income enough to feed his family and he is willing to put his chilren for adoption. IMAGINE! Mr. simonlives, what else is needed to make him exceptional?

[Qu3enz]

@GULABARISO Ye, muslim oromos not christianz, u won find a lot of dat around shewa, buh 78 iz juzz toooooo much

[GULABARISO]

@MrBiniMan

Thats how we oromos are, my grandpa had 5 wives and 26 kids not much but still big family. You'd most likely find this happening in Harargee oromos, Arsi and bale oromos too. Other places usually hav a max of 5 - 6 kids.

[simonlives]

The Fertility rate is measured by the number of children per woman, so his 12 wives with 78 children comes out to about 6 children per woman. The fertility rate in Ethiopia is 6 per mother, so actually, the family is average for Ethiopia. 6 per woman is too high ofcourse, my point is the video is inaccurate to make him and his wives as unusual.

[MrBiniMan]

12 wifes and 78 children ????????? that is sick!!! 10 years after would be Ethiopian population number become more than 100,000,000...this problem has India and China...this old man is Duruye nothing else.

[anitaalford]

He is a vwery handsome 65 year old man.