Why Do We Rebuild the Same Vulnerability? It has been months since the Bhotekoshi flood, and the work of recovery is already beginning to take shape. Roads will be repaired. Homes will be rebuilt. Infrastructure will be restored. But what exactly are we rebuilding? If recovery means returning everything to the way it was before the disaster, then we risk restoring not only what was destroyed, but also the vulnerabilities that existed before it. Perhaps what we need to rebuild is something less visible: how do we prepare to survive? There is a big difference between how people actually behave when a disaster strikes and how they are expected to behave. Theoretical knowledge alone is not enough. Simply knowing that a flood can be dangerous or that an earthquake can cause buildings to collapse does not necessarily mean people will know how to respond appropriately during the actual event. What matters is whether that knowledge becomes actionable in the few seconds when fear, confusi...
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Women are never impure
Story line She was 13 when she got her first period. Being the only sister in the family, she didn’t know whom to tell and what to do. She finally had enough courage to go tell her mom. With the fear of something bad happening to her family, she was immediately sent to the shed. She was terrified as there was no room for her in the shed. Amidst the cold winter, she ate rice with sugar as she froze in the cold while her family ate warm food in the house. She wasn’t allowed to go anywhere or touch anyone for 10 days. She was discriminated and humiliated when she got her period as she was considered “impure”. She slept next to a goat at night to keep herself warm. She couldn’t feel the warmth as she was forbidden to see the sun. Above story is just an example from amongst plethora of many such examples. Various accidents and unwanted events happen because of malpractices to address the menstruation period. Parbati Buda Rawat, 21, was found dead in a menstrua...
Victim or a survivor?!
She was touched in a way not a single girl out there deserves to be touched, at least not a 14 year old. A pretty young girl walking towards her friend's house in a rainy evening excited about her night stay leaves that house with nothing but pain. She's there singing and dancing with her best friend when her cousin brother joins them. Her best friend had to go grocery shopping so she introduces them and walks away thinking her friend was safe with her brother. But she gets nervous as she's there alone in a room with the strange man. She's there on her phone scrolling through Instagram. All of a sudden, she feels his hands on her chest , she tries to scream but he shushes her. Out of fear she cries for help but no one can hear her. He then pushes himself inside her. She's all numb, can't feel a thing. She fights, yells for help but it wasn't worth it. Nobody cares about you he said, "You're doing what you're made for" . She begs him to stop...