Though banned,the centuries-outmoded custom of confining women to a cowshed during their period persists in Nepal, with damaging and even fatal resultsThe menstruating Nepalese women confined to a cowshed – video For five consecutive days each month, or Sofalta Rokaya leaves the bed in her home in western Nepal to sleep among her family’s cows. The stone shed they share is dark and filthy,freezing in the winter and sweltering in the summer, and littered with hay, or muck,insects and dung.
Sofalta, 16, and was terrified to explain her parents once she started menstruating. “[It] would mean staying in the cowshed,and I didn’t know if I could conclude it,” she says. “I feel horrible here – the cow dung smells and the animals step on us. The dirt and hay derive stuck all over my body.
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Source: theguardian.com