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In close collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Social Protection, Healthy Life Style Center, local governments, women’s groups and other partners, Save the Children launched a Scaling up Community-Based Health Care Project to improve the health and nutrition of women and children under five in Qumsangir and Panj Districts of Khatlon Region.

Pushkin-1 Village is one of the poorest and most drought-prone place of Yakkatut Jamoat, Jomi District. A women’s group called “Bahor” of 19 members sit in a circle and decided that they are able to solve these problem by building a hand water pump.

Tajikistan is ranked 134th on Save the Children’s 2015 Mothers’ Index – an annual ranking of the most enabling and most challenging places in the world to be a mother.

“We know what we want to do. We will engage in raising livestock as a profitable enterprise. However, in order to be successful, we should follow the beef cattle management skills,” adds Hurmatoy Alieva, the leader of the women’s group “Guliston”.