When I call the project unit, they always send me a doctor or an agriculture engineer immediately, especially for vaccinations. These services are provided without any charge. Adnan Hawry runs a cooperative that has 80 members. He explains how the cooperative has become central to the project's aim to promote income-generating activities for local people, particularly for women. The locals love it.
Women are members of the cooperative.
During the war, we had nothing to do and since some people here had the idea of forming a cooperative, I decided to join them. I am very happy because it gives me the opportunity to have work and also to meet other women. I did a training course for an NGO called YMCA for three months, three times daily. When the cooperative started, I could apply what I had learnt, such as the techniques for different products. There were seven women in this training, and afterwards we trained the other women of the cooperative.