Dependent on livestock

This is my son Miloudi. He is taking the sheep to graze before he goes off to school. Miloudi and his brother Abdullah are the only ones who go to school. My other children are illiterate.

We are farmers and have the sheep, a couple of cows and veal calves, as well as a bull and chickens. We don’t own any land but my husband farms the land next to our compound. It belongs to his father and in return we have to give him one third of the harvest.

My husband has health problems, so often the children have to help look after the animals. When he is well he sometimes works on other farms as a day labourer.