Spinners

Inobat is 32 years old. She is an orphan and cannot remember her parents who died when she was two years old. She was brought up by her grandmother who gave her away in marriage. Her husband does not have a permanent job. He earns money by repairing or building people’s houses in the village. They have two

I was born in 1983 in Oshoba village. I was a good student and studied at a high school in our village. But my father died early and I could not go to college. For that we needed money. When I was 20 years old, I was married to a man from Uzbekistan. In 2005, I had my

Gulchechra is an energetic, social, cheerful 38-year-old woman. She is the eleventh of twelve children. Many of her brothers and sisters are educated and successful in their work. Gulchechra also wanted to get a higher education but when she finished ninth grade the times were very tough and her parents did not have money to send her to

Gulchechra is 50 years old which makes her the oldest spinner. She is does not have many needs and prefers a simple life. Her father was a shoemaker and she has an 80-year-old mother who she loves very much. Her father died a long time ago but she still misses him and thinks about him often. She has

Dildora is 29 years old. She considers herself an egoist because she never asks anyone for advice and likes to do things her way. She is grateful to her husband that he puts up with it. She has three sons and her husband works in Russia. She loves to read books and loves music very much. She worked

Farzona is 25 years old. She is calm and not very talkative. They married her as soon as she finished school. She always hoped to be a teacher and she started attending a pedagogical institute after the birth of her first child, with the help of her mother. Now she is in her fifth year of studies. She works

Anora is a 35 years old, quiet, shy woman. She has three children, two daughters and one son. Her family gets most of their income from Russia. Her husband works in Russia six months out of the year and sometime he stays there all year. Anora grew up in a remote mountain village and could not get an