We visited Cerima Spahic on the 20th November 2012. She was actually at the home of her daughter-in-law Aida Spahic who lives next door. Cerima received a loan of just over £700 in April 2012 which she used to buy a Busa cow. This is a common native breed of cow widely kept by farmers throughout the Balkans. Although they are not as productive as other varieties such as Holstein-Freisen or Simmental, they are hardier and require less feed and care. She has made six repayments already and also received training in making cheese and ensuring that her cow produces as much milk as possible. Cerima initially sold the milk for between 20-40 euro cents per litre to a local dairy. However, after about five months she decided to sell the cow making a profit of 100 euros. The main reason was that the price of milk was falling and she felt it would cost more in buying feed than she would make from selling the milk. With the income she bought food in bulk for the winter months - particularly cooking oil and flour. Cermia's husband finds work occasionally as a labourer and is paid 10 euros per day. Cerima also makes some income from knitting and selling thick socks. She makes the socks from either wool or polyester and they are commonly worn at home in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where shoes are left at the entrance in all homes and winters can be very cold. She makes the socks to order in various colours and patterns according to each customer's tastes. In between other tasks the socks can take 2-3 days to knit and she sells them for around 3-6 euros depending upon whether they are children or adult sizes. They were certainly of good quality and I bought two pairs (shown in the photograph). She would of course be willing to make more if she could find a market outlet. Update by Ajaz Ahmed Khan, Ajsa Sacic and Melnisa Begovic.