All the projects run by Lines and her team are on a small scale and based on years of experience of living among the Kalash. It's just as well, given that the valleys are littered with the detritus of failed projects by large NGOs, such as the road, built along the wrong side of a river, that was washed away by floods.

Unlike some of the large aid agencies, Lines is convinced that basic sanitation and education should come before electricity and improved roads, and she is well aware of the dangers of making the Kalash economically dependent on charity.