Subina Shrestha is quite a name in the journalism scene in Nepal. Subina’s work has been broadcast on Al Jazeera, Arte, BBC and ITN. She is based in Nepal and below is a short documentary Birth In Nepal which shows a pregnant Subina going to a rural area in Nepal to observe how the women in the villages prepare for a childbirth. Nepal also has one of the highest infant mortality rates and efforts have been made to reduce this through the Millenium Development Goals.
hello, subinaji le garnu bhayeko kaam ekdum ramro ho tara afnai desh vitra yo karya dekaunu bhako bhaye derai ramro huntyo kina ki arka ko ghar ma afnu bejeth dekaunu sabai bhanda naramro kura ho.
thankyou
“It’s a girl, a widow” says it all really. That’s how much women are respected and what’s worse is how they treat each other. Those old school mentalities that are so hard to shift 🙁
Good luck to the ladies reaching out to the villages 😀
wonder how much the producers of this documentary gave back to those poor villagers and especially to the woman whose very intimate moments are now open to public.
This broke my heart in many many ways at the same time left me amazed as it always does by the miracle of birth and new hope. Broke my heart for all the women in that village and the ignorance they suffer not realizing that without women, new life would not be possible, at the lack of basic hygiene which could have easily killed the mother and baby, which again is caused by ignorance and poverty and most of all for the mother who cannot feel the immense joy at the birth of her beautiful baby daughter because of further ignorance that a son is “better” than a daughter. How very very sad!
Telling the truth whether at home or abroad is the same. It’s not like the foreigners are ignorant of what is going on here. If anyone, it is our own people who are ignorant…and btw Subina is sponsoring the girl child. Has set up an account for the girl for her future…
Telling the truth whether at home or abroad is the same. It’s not like the foreigners are ignorant of what is going on here. If anyone, it is our own people who are ignorant…and btw Subina is sponsoring the girl child. Has set up an account for the girl for her future…