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    Pepper Co-Op Helps Kosovo's War Widows Reclaim Their Lives

    After losing hundreds of their husbands and sons in the Balkan War, one village of war widows is taking charge of its finances and well-being by jarring and selling the region's famous pepper spread.
    by Valerie Plesch Feb 26, 2018 3 minutes
    Jars of pepper spread known as ajvar, a Balkan breakfast staple, produced by the war widows of Krusha e Madhe, Kosovo.

    Nineteen years ago, Fahrije Hoti, 48, fled her home in Krusha e Madhe to the nearby mountains and then to neighboring Albania. Former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic's military forces had descended on this rural village in southwestern Kosovo and separated the men from their families.

    A few months later, in June 1999, after 78 days of NATO airstrikes drove Milosevic's army out of Kosovo, Hoti returned with her 3-year-old daughter and 3-month-old son to find her entire village in ruins, her home burned down.

    "For 19 years, I still don't know what happened to my

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