Women have been raising livestock for years, but hardly own them under their name or be the one buying it. For most of them, even this decision is made by the ‘man of the house’. Recently, in the first ever women-led livestock market at Marui,.
Women In Rural Pakistan Reap Kitchen Garden Advantage
Women In Rural Pakistan Reap Kitchen Garden Advantage
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KARACHI, Pakistan “My five children often slept hungry when my husband did not get work,” Khadija Bibi, a 37-year-old from Thatta in Sindh province of Pakistan, told Zenger News.
“He is a mason helper and earns PKR 7,000 ($45.35) a month when he is lucky to get work,” she said while working a small kitchen garden. “Not everyone gets lucky. Unemployment is high. The city is far. At times, he didn’t have the money to buy a bus ticket to go there in search of work.”
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