Blogs from Butwal, Nepal, Asia

In Nepal things rarely happen as you expect or hope. This is what Heather and I discussed as we stood at the new bus park in Butwal, waiting to meet our friends for dinner. We were mostly thinking of the unexpected information we had uncovered in a series of interviews that morning. It started at the Radio Jagaran office, where I had managed to sit down with Dinesh (see my previous blog about him on my work blog site) and ask him some questions about his parents. His father is a Village Health Worker and his mother has uterine prolapse but they are from an extremely poor untouchable caste family, making them an example of a case where even those who have knowledge about UP still don’t have the resources to seek medical care. During my ... read more

A new work blog (part I) is up about working with the Uterine Prolapse Alliance. Part II will follow in the next few days with a photos and a description of a community information session that I facilitated and observed yesterday in Nawalparasi district. http://advocacynet.org/blogs/index.php?blog=107... read more

Chandmati Pasi is, if nothing else, candid. She answers inquiries about her life with a measure of directness that is unusual in her community. Ask her how many children she has borne, and without even the suggestion of emotion she will tell you of the four children that have survived and the three that have died—one at birth, one within eight days, and another within five months. Prompted about her medical condition, Chandmati will just as matter of factly tell you about the day she felt her uterus prolapse. Chandmati was out collecting wood just fifteen days after the birth of her last child when it happened. It was a rainy day and the roads were slick with mud, causing Chandmati to slip. As she fell she experienced a sudden pain and the sensation of something ... read more