Elvira Kadyrova, Ramilya Delmuhametova, Raviliya Kadyrova, Ilmira Delmuhametova, Liliya Zhirnova, Tamir Shakirov
We conclude this series here.
We began with bread.
Something that everybody needs.
We looked at shoes.
Something everybody wears.
We looked inside the refrigerator.
Inside the home.
Into the shops.
At the telephone in people’s hands.
At the places where they eat and spend their leisure time.
And finally, we arrived at the child, the present and future of Turkmenistan.
We showed that ultimately, quality of life is not about how many products a country can manufacture. It is about the world in which the next generation grows up.
A child cannot calculate GDP.
A child does not know the value of industrial output.
A child does not care about export statistics.
But a child knows whether there are books to read, places to play, things to learn, food to enjoy, sports to try, friends to meet and dreams to pursue.
Thirty-five years of independence have changed that everyday world.
And perhaps that is the most meaningful measure of all.
A country changes when its children begin to take for granted things that were once unavailable to their parents.
That is how progress becomes real.
That is how it becomes life. /// nCa, 24 September 2026