Kavar as a development model
“Here, from June through September, women go to the mountains and highlands to milk the cows. We set off on foot at 10 am and reach the cattle in about an hour. We milk them for half an hour and then walk back home with 10 to 25 liters of milk on our backs. We reach home at 12.30. There is more work at home, such as cooking, caring for the children and boiling the milk, all of which occupies us until 5 pm. Even more work awaits us, as we spend two and a half hours milking the sheep and goats.1 In total we need five hours for milking the animals... Rural development, you say—what is that? We women would be very pleased if the road we take to get to the animals for milking could be improved. It’s full of rocks which cut our feet. If the road were fixed, the work would be much less tiresome... I wish we had a tractor to take us to the animals.”2
