Nepalese Wives Send Condoms To Husbands Overseas
Women who live in a village in Nepal have been taking their husband’s health into their own hands. They have been mailing condoms to their husbands who are working overseas. They are attempting to protect their husbands from sexually transmitted diseases. In Pang, a small village town in Nepal, wives generally believe the best in their husbands. In this country, there are about three million people who are working overseas and sending money back to their families. Most of these are husbands, who are sending the money back to wives and their children.
Most of the men work as manual laborers, and send the money home to support their families. During the same time that the men have been overseas working for money, social workers have been visiting the mountain towns. This is part of the goals of the government of Nepal, which include education about sexually transmitted diseases. The social worker’s goals are to educate women and teenagers in small mountain towns that have little access to any other types of sexual education.
As they have been educating the woman, they have been teaching them the dangers of having unprotected sex. The education of the women has led to a landslide of letters being sent to the husbands who are currently working overseas. It seems that the more the women learn about sexually transmitted diseases the more that they want to protect themselves and their husbands. They have been sending their husbands regular letters which urge them to not have unprotected sex with others.
However, they have been including condoms in the letters, just in case. Laxmi Sunar, who is one of the village wives, says that as she started to learn about how you could get HIV from unsafe sexual practices, she wanted to make sure that her husband had the same knowledge, and that he would be protected.
She sent the information that she had learned to her husband in a letter, but also included a condom in the letter, just incase he decided to have sexual relations. With so many husbands working overseas, the idea has become more of a way to educate the women in order to have them educate their husbands. This is becoming the best way of cutting back on sexually transmitted diseases within the country, but also abroad, as the men are getting the education from their wives in the letters, and are hopefully thinking twice if they decide to have sexual relations while they are working abroad.
It might not be the most traditional way of providing sex education, but it seems to be working for the most part. The biggest problem with sexually transmitted diseases in Nepal has thus far been lack of education. The people living there simply don’t know that it is dangerous, and are therefore more likely to engage in activities that might be harmful to them. The social workers are hoping that by educating the women, the knowledge will spread, and hopefully they will be able to curb the rise of sexually transmitted diseases in that area.
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