Hanna Ingber

I got the visa!

Hanna Ingber Win — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 17:00:55 +0000

I got the visa! I am going back to Bur — I mean Myanmar — in May. I lived in Yangon for a year in 2003-2004 and haven’t been back since. The last time I was there Aung San Suu Kyi was under house arrest. We couldn’t write, talk or think about her. Instead, we spoke…quietly… [...]

Journey Through Nepal

Hanna Ingber Win — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 02:04:54 +0000

I used Storify to put together my tweets, blog posts, photographs and articles from my trip to Nepal last August. Check it out and let me know what you think. [<a href="http://storify.com/HannaIngber/nepal" mce_href="http://storify.com/HannaIngber/nepal" target="_blank">View the story "Following the trail of maternal health in Nepal" on Storify</a>]

Special Report: Child brides

Hanna Ingber Win — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:18:21 +0000

I traveled to Nepal in August through a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting to cover child marriage in the country. Here is the two-part series I wrote for GlobalPost. Child marriages burden young Nepalis DOLAKHA, Nepal — Suntali Thami grew up in a tiny village here in this remote district set in the [...]

India’s Bias for Boys

Hanna Ingber Win — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:17:58 +0000

Listen to my radio story, India’s Bias for Boys, on PRI’s The World. Click on the mp3 below or on the “play” button here. 090820118.mp3 Read the accompanying text on PRI’s The World site.

GHI’s Missing Piece in Nepal: Abortion

Hanna Ingber Win — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:28:07 +0000

LAMAHI, Nepal – United States President Barack Obama set up the Global Health Initiative to take a more comprehensive approach to improving health care in developing nations. In particular, his administration has given great weight to saving the lives of women and to supporting countries’ priorities in health care. But there’s one [...]

Political Instability Threatens Nepal’s Health Care Program

Hanna Ingber Win — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 04:28:38 +0000

My blog from GlobalPost’s Global Pulse: KATHMANDU, Nepal — Healthcare providers, advocates and academics have told me during my travels in Nepal these past two weeks that one of the biggest challenges to improving the country’s healthcare system is the nation’s political instability. Nepal is in the process of trying to draft a [...]

Maternal Health and Rural Development in Nepal: One Woman’s Fight

Hanna Ingber Win — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 16:21:27 +0000

For GlobalPost’s Global Pulse Blog: GHORAHI, Nepal — Asmani Chaudhary grew up dirt poor in a village in Nepal’s Terai region, which runs along the border with India. A member of a long-disadvantaged Nepali community called Tharu, Chaudhary was raised in a mud hut that housed her entire 30-member extended family. Now, at age [...]

Nepali Villagers Forced to Travel Treacherous Roads to Nearest Hospital

Hanna Ingber Win — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 16:11:17 +0000

My blog for The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting: The ride there was actually quite lovely. It was coming back when we realized just how harrowing doing something as basic as driving to town can be for the people of Nepal’s rural areas. Pulitzer Center intern Anna Tomasulo and I arrived Monday night in [...]

Will the Elderly Bring Down India?

Hanna Ingber Win — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 13:34:49 +0000

MUMBAI, India — Maqbool Beg has been driving a rickshaw for 42 years. Now, at the age of 62, his children have grown, his beard has turned white, his teeth are red from years of chewing betel nut. And he suffers from high blood pressure. But he keeps on driving. He needs the [...]

A Hive of Productivity

Hanna Ingber Win — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:01:09 +0000

Nearly a billion people worldwide live in slums. Hanna Ingber Win visits Dharavi in Mumbai, one of the world’s largest slums – and a functioning economy that exports goods all over the world Published in The Times of London July 25, 2011 From a distance, a slum’s haphazard collection of huts piled on top of one another, [...]