Today we put our Kenian correspondent Bertha in the spotlights!
Bertha is known for her always changing haircuts. But especially for her impressive stories about strong women.
She made a story about a miss-beauty competition in a women's jail and a story about self-defense for older women to prevent themselves from being raped. Watch a collage of her work here.
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Correspondent Carren from Kenya works almost two years for Metropolis now. She has made a lot of good but also funny reports since. That's why we put her in the spotlights this week with a collage of her work for Metropolis.
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Besides her correspondence for our program, she is very active with other programs. She made a web series for Amnesty called Meet the Muthuku's, where the daily life of a family in the slums of Nairobi is shown. A selection of this episodes will be showed at the Young Amnesty Film Days this weekend, part of the Movies That Matter festival in The Hague.
What is it like to get married for just a few hours? Or to marry at the age of twelve? Or to get married with fourty other couples at once, just to keep down the cost?
People get married all over the world. But the reasons why people get married can be quite different in various cultures. For many people the day of their wedding is also the most expensive day in their life. In Afghanistan for instance, where correspondent Emal meets a couple that borrows loads of money just to be able to get married. And in Brazil we’ll see people marrying in groups of 80 just to keep the expenses low.
Expensive or not, those are the weddings people choose to have. Our correspondents stumbled upon many stories of forced marriages. Like the story from Senegal, where we see Assan who is getting married to his much younger cousin Janeba, crying before the wedding. Afterwards the men of the village wildly celebrate the blood on the sheets, seen as proof of her loss of virginity.
Marrying to survive, forced marriage, and the marriage as a swamp of financial troubles. A very different view on the best day of your life.
