Thu 30 Apr, 2009

In her own words Humaira tells her story and how CDP has helped her childrens education.

I was born in 1957 in a poor family in Qezil village. My father engaged me with Ahmad when I was 9 years old. It was common to engage the girls before she becomes puberty in the village or even in the country. My husband was from TarteJar village. After marriage he took me in his village too.

When I was 13 years old I delivered a girl. Right now I have 9 children 4 daughters and 5 boys. My biggest daughter is 22 she is married and my biggest son is 19 years old but both of them are illiterate. My son has gone to Iran in order to make some money for his family. My other child is 5 years old. He is a student but some time he goes to school and some time he doesn’t go to school. My second daughter is 13 years old. I don’t really want to marry her until she gets puberty. So she is studying for 4th class. I wish she becomes an educated girl and gets paid by the governor in the future. Indeed a few years ago we were indifferent for sending the girls to school but now we try and wish for them to be literate. My small children are going to school as well and i hope for them to become literate and make a better future.

My husband is a very good person. When we married he was selling flour and animals. But now he is labouring and loading and unloading peoples things. He can get 100/150Afs per day. ($2-3 USD) I can weave rug and I also know embroidery, but since 8 years I am not feeling well therefore I can’t do any work. My son sends money from Iran and we use that money for my treatments and for supplying the daily needs. I wake up early in the morning I pray first and some time I bake bread and bring water at home.

We thank CDP for repairing the pipeline from the Hinduyak spring and for the electric light project in the village. I sweep and brush away the house dirt and I wash the cloths and give bath the children. I have two goats. My small child takes the goats out to feed. He likes to take the goats out for feeding and he prefers feeding the goats to going to school. The village has electricity in the evenings now from a generator. My children do homework under the light. We have drinkable water. It comes from the Hinduyak baba’s spring. CDP project distributed mosquito nets for the people in Myandara valley and no one gets malaria disease now.