Most parents can't afford it, or refuse to do so. Sarah works with local woman's groups supported by the Irish development organisation Concern. Since the war, so many men are missing and women have had to become more independent. They always did most of the work on the land, but now many are also providing things they used to receive from their husbands. Women in our project are producing cooking oil from Lulu nuts and they are trying to sell it for profit.
Many women also make a homebrew, which they sell.
With the money earned they buy clothes and salt and sugar. Most of what they buy is for the children, but the point is that they handle money now, which they never used to in the past. She has eight children and her husband has four other wives. They have 31 children between them and all live off the land they cultivate. I am the only one who has a job and a small income.