However soon, after obtaining the necessary equipment and creating the needed conditions, the volumes will increase and new employment opportunities will be available. Moreover, the issue of wool procurement will be solved. This will enable the opportunity to sell the items at a lower price" says the head of the village. Until present, the orders of the Council of Norway in Armenia were supplied: knitted dolls for export.

Aside from the fact that the women from Aregnadem village, Armenia, have to take care of their households in the absence of their husbands, they also are engaged in the unique 'entrepreneurship' of felt-making; they make wool dolls, which are then exported to Norway.

Aregnadem Village, which has 500 inhabitants is located in the beautiful mountains of Shirak region - 145 kilometres from Yerevan. It is one of the few villages of Armenia where the head is a woman. Like many villages, this one too, has an employment problem. Due to the latter, the majority of men leaves the place for guest work.

Those who remain in the village are engaged in cattle breeding. When the men are away, it's the women who take control of the household. They never rest here.

With the request of the head of the village, and with the support of World Vision, felt production was opened here, where various wool items are made.

Now there are around a dozen workers, and the production volumes are still low for being so profitable.