A group of villagers walks through Jiling, in the Nuwakot district of central Nepal, with eyes glued to the ground. They cut narrow paths around rice fields and yield to goats until they find what they are looking for: A brown, stinky, fly-covered pile.
”It’s poop,” laughs 40-year-old Chandra Kumari. Human poop.
Month: September 2016
‘Community-Led Total Sanitation’ Tasked With Ending Open Defecation
Millions of people in the developing world lack toilets. And that can have serious consequences. Human waste out in the open is a major cause of stomach illnesses and child mortality. From Nepal, Danielle Preiss reports on one unconventional way to deal with this.
Some immigrants in New York prefer to slaughter animals themselves. There’s a farm that wants to help.
On a hot August evening, Kina Maya Kadariya, swishes in a green flower print sari as she puts the finishing touches on dinner. The rice is warming in the rice cooker, the fermented greens were prepared days ago. She stirs a steaming pot a few more times as red and gold bangles slide down her arm.
Kadariya cooks duck or goat about every other week. When I visited, duck was on the menu. But in the refugee camp where she used to live in eastern Nepal, eating meat was an expensive luxury.
“In Nepal we ate it once a month, or once every two months,” she says.