Resource July 30, 2013
Nepal: Journalists Allison Shelley and Allyn Gaestel on Chaupadi
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In rural western Nepal, many women are sent to live in animal sheds while they are menstruating...
Allison Shelley and Allyn Gaestel, the team behind the Pulitzer Center project "Chaupadi: Nepali Women's Monthly Exile" discuss the challenges and lessons learned in Nepal's far west.
![](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/06-14-13/nyt_screen_shot_2_1.png.webp?h=8b31135d&itok=87A5LYjb "A still from "In Nepal, Exiled Each Month."")
![](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/05-29-13/nyaya_bayalpata_001.jpg.webp?h=1116cd87&itok=cAIOo8LZ "A group of Community Health Worker Leaders (CHWL's) gather for their twice-weekly meeting at Bayalpata Hospital, a health facility run by Nyaya Health, in Bayalpata, Achham, in the far western region of Nepal, November 23, 2012. Nyaya pays the CHWL's and teaches them basic health skills, which they in turn teach to village-level Female Community Health Volunteers. The term "nyaya" is a Nepali word that roughly translates to "the actualization of justice" and is the core of Nyaya Health's unique open source approach to rural health care. Image by Allison Shelley. Nepal, 2013.")
