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Afghan Child Education And Care Organization (AFCECO) (orphanage)

Palestine is in the midst of a humanitarian crisis while the United States and other European Prime Ministers express their solidarity with Israel. It's crucial that you educate yourself and support Palestine and Palestinians' struggles for justice and the end of this illegal occupation.

It's also important to remember that all of Israel was built on occupied land. Israel is an apartheid state and a settler colony. The Israeli state has no right to exist.

Free Palestine 🇵🇸 and boycott Israel!

The Israel-Palestine conflict: a brief, simple history (not by Al Jazeera but short and very comprehensive)

Jaffa, The Orange's Clockwork (a stunning and powerful documentary about deconstructing the Jaffa oranges brand through representations, archival photos and videos. It tackles forced evictions, the bombing of Palestine and Al-Nakba. The documentary is available on vimeo for under 6$, absolutely worth it! I have bought this film in Italian so message me if you'd like to see it!)

Lost cities of Palestine: Haifa, Nazareth, and Jaffa

Al-Nakba: The Palestinian catastrophe - Ep. 1

Al-Nakba: The Palestinian catastrophe - Ep. 2

Al-Nakba: The Palestinian catastrophe - Ep. 3

Al-Nakba: The Palestinian catastrophe - Ep. 4

Al-Nakba: How did the Nakba happen?

Al-Nakba: 70 years of exile

Like, I am Nepali but I was born/raised in America, so I'm pretty used to the whole "gross but not super-shunned" American mindset on periods.

Four years ago, my father remarried a very traditional Nepali woman, and with her came her family.

My step-mother soon noticed when I would be on my period, since our whole family shares one bathroom and despite how I try to hide it, it's pretty obvious what I'm doing when I go to the bathroom tons of times a day. Her family began watching me whenever I went into the kitchen, I couldn't touch anything there or else I'd 'soil' it, I couldn't get a glass of water without being watched. I was told I couldn't sit on a certain side of the couch, couldn't enter certain rooms, and could not touch my baby brother or hug my father. Because I was on my period, and I was 'impure'.

Now like, that's not even a FRACTION of what some women in Nepal actually go through. Where they are forced out into huts with no heat, little to no food or water, no cleaning supplies, and are forced to stay inside for the duration of their periods. Many times women are raped and/or assaulted during this period.

There is such a depth to women's suffering that is glossed over by the rest of the world. It took me the tiniest bit of discrimination of this type to really be able to realize "hey, this is actually TERRIFYING".

Here are some images, since I believe visual examples also help people a lot, as well as a few articles and a GoFundMe for menstrual cups in Nepal below:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/menstrual-cups-in-nepal-chhaupadi

https://kathmandupost.com/national/2019/03/22/women-are-still-dying-after-being-sent-to-menstruation-huts-but-no-one-is-filing-complaints

https://www.irinsider.org/south-asia-1/2020/2/12/chhaupadi-an-outdated-patriarchal-practice-in-nepal