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.
If you had to spend time in jail, in which country could you best be? And where definately not? This week Metropolis gets jailed all over the world and compares the differences between prisons worldwide. All fifty correspondents were asked to request permission to film in a local prison, only twelve of them succeeded.
This resulted in some amazing stories, like the one about a miss pageant on Death Row in Kenya, or the 200 prisoners crowded together for moths in a police cell in Rio de Janeiro. In La Paz, Bolivia we’ll visit the San Pedro prison, which is more like a small town than a prison. The prisoners rent their cells, and there are many shops in the narrow alleys inside the walled prison area. And in Poland Justyna tags along with a group of inmates who are allowed to leave prison for 10 days to participate in a pilgrimage to Czestochowa. When a local woman expresses fear for her possessions, a priest reassures her: “They won’t steal Ma’m, they’re all killers.”
