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During the communist regime, women from Metaj, a small village in central Albania, were milking 25 cows 7 days a week from 3:00 a.m. until sundown. They were not allowed to own livestock larger than a chicken and could not take home even one liter of milk from work to their families. In 1993, Land O'Lakes, with support from USAID, trained more than 8,000 women in sanitation, milk quality testing, preventing mastitis and other diseases, dairy breeding, and business management skills. The Woman's Metaj Dairy Cooperative began in 1998 with 15 members. Today 45 women from Metaj have 3 to 6 cows each and have created a cooperative where they profit from immense effort, proper sanitation methods, and advanced technology. The women realized that instead of selling their milk individually to local businessmen for low prices, they could share a cooling tank and sell their milk at double the price. In the photo, members of the Women's Metaj Dairy Cooperative show off some of their dairy cows.
Source: www.USAIDAlbania.org
Photo Credit: USAID
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