Khorosan: Ododgoroy Mahmaliyeva in her new home remembers the terrible event four years ago when a landslide buried her family’s house in Tajikistan with onions.
Heavy snow and rain dumped rocks, water and mud on land in the Central Asian country, which is considered more vulnerable to the effects of climate change, it said.
“We live in fear until the mountain collapses and destroys our home,” said the 61-year-old, wearing a shiny hijab.
Mahmalieva and her husband, Jamoliddin, fear the landslide will destroy their house and are now among the thousands of Tajiks displaced by the number of natural disasters.
Leaders in the nearly 10 million countries of the former Soviet Union believe hundreds of thousands of people live in areas at risk of landslides, landslides, floods and earthquakes.
They chose to move people to safety – a difficult task for one of the world’s poorest countries.
The Makhmaliyevs settled in the new village of Khuroson Etrap, 70 km (43 miles) south of the capital Dushanbe.
A group of simple houses built for “eco-migrants” lined the road, dotted with mountains.
Mahmaliyev said the couple’s parents’ house survived several landslides before being leveled in early 2020.
“When we lived in the tent for a week, we dug up everything that was dirty,” said the retired music teacher.
“We don’t know where we’re going to live,” said his wife Mahmalieva.
A year later, the couple shared a house in the village for people facing natural disasters.
