Saira

Saira is from the village of Zarat-Kheyberi in Shamaxi.  She is part of the Tat people group.  Zarat-Kheyberi is one of the most remote villages in Azerbaijan.  No normal car can reach this village and it only has about 100 people living there and the school only has 5 students.  This village is famous for it's knitting and most of the women can knit.  They have a specific pattern they make in this village which they call grapevine.  Saira has never been married and lives with another single sister as well as her brother and his family.  She spends her days working hard in her garden, watching her livestock, making patties to burn (no gas and no trees) and all the other types of difficult village work.