“Certain events caused my husband and me part our ways. prompting me to move with children to my mother's place. Right now, it is just me and my five-year-old daughter, Nilufar, living together. She is at her preschool studies, while my fourteen-year-old son, Mammad, is away at high school. We are currently staying in an IDP settlement. We hope that once the land is safe again after the mines are cleared, we can return to our homeland.”

Narmin is a deminer, dedicating her days to the crucial task of clearing our precious earth from mine contamination. She needed a job, so when she came across an online job opening for recruitment of women deminers she felt compelled to apply. Despite knowing it is a tough job, Narmin believed she could handle it. While the decision to apply was not hard for Narmin, her mother worried about the choice.

“After submitting my application and passing the exam, I felt relieved and grateful to be chosen for the position. Joining this project has made me feel like I am part of something truly meaningful. Luckily, I was the first among our group of women deminers to discover a mine. It filled me with an immense sense of pride and shifted the way people treated me, and those around me started to express their pride in my achievement though initially, my decision to pursue this challenging profession was not welcomed by my mother and relatives.”