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Ms. Esra’s message to those who follow is: “All the girls, all the women who want to become a forester, believe me, this profession is so pleasing; it is so pleasing that you do not get scared. When you do it with love it is not difficult, just like any other profession. Man or woman, it does not matter. As long as you work with devotion. Yes, it may need some devotion. But if you like it, believe me, you will care nothing at all. Neither the problems nor the road you make, nothing… Just do not give up”. She points herself and says “We are here!”
We are inside the common beech forests that have not yet flourished. We see bushes, branches, some reaching out to our belly, and some to our knees. To our surprise, these are those young saplings they took care meticulously which came out of the seeds taken from the old trees with great difficulty. Mr. Emrah, one of our chiefs, tells how the young saplings are treated and how the women from the village work for this. Then Ms. Esra tells the tasks which the women take on in various areas of production not just taking care of saplings in regeneration works.