Every day, Jasminka Kojić climbs up and down a little hill 40 times, carrying a bucket of water to keep her raspberries alive so that she can feed her family. She doesn’t mind, she says, because without raspberries they’d have nothing. This young woman lives in Zelinje, a town near Zvornik. She is a mother of three, and her raspberry business is the only income for her five-member household.

Jasminka couldn’t find a job in Zelinje, and neither can her husband. They are putting two children through school and have another to feed. But how? This is what Jasminka is wondering, since she pays 150 BAM every month just to get her two schoolchildren bus passes. But how does she pay for everything else?

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