UNDER the shade of trees, Ruske and about 30 other women in Tinongko village on Mantehage Island, North Sulawesi, squatted and diligently cleaned and flattened a pile of clumpy soil. The soil is then mixed with a mixture of bran and cement by stomping it with feet, added with water and little by little carved into a circular shape. “The hardest part is molding. Your hands have to move very fast,” said Ruske.

These women are training to make