Bhorle, Nepal and Climate Change 2009

This film was screened at the Oxfam Climate Change Hearings 2009. The film show a few clips of Bhorle, a small village in rural Nepal. Please watch the video and read the presentation speech below to learn more about how Climate Change is affecting people living in rural Nepal.

For more information about Bhorle, Nepal, please watch a documentary about the village on Vimeo http://vimeo.com/28936725

The Effects of Climate change on Bhorle, Nepal.
Bhorle is a rural village in the Terai Hills in Chitwan, Nepal and is situated near the Seti river and the main highway which connects Nepal to India. There is one primary school in the village. The nearest town, market and health centre is 45 minutes away by bus.
The village already faces problems due to lack of funds to improve and expand the school and to establish a desperately needed health centre. The main source of income for the village is agriculture. Farmers are reliant on rainfall but changing weather patterns are effecting their crop production.
When we arrived in Bhorle in July 2009, the monsoon season was already 2months late. Villagers spoke of how the late onset had ruined their crops and made it difficult for them to plan for the future. The irregular rains occurring in Bhorle and across Nepal are having a negative impact on livelihoods. It is also adding to health problems of rural villagers, who suffer a poor diet due to the food insecurity. If crops continue to fail due to erratic weather changes, soon, villagers in Bhorle will be unable to feed themselves and their families.
Whilst we were in Bhorle, the monsoon rains arrived and we found ourselves sheltering from huge downpours of rain. Six months prior to our visit, Nepal had experienced it's longest dry spell in recent history.
Bhorle is vulnerable. Lack of health and education services, coupled with the existing problems of crop production in a mountainous area mean that unpredictable weather patterns will drastically affect the village.
Last December, ahead of the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit 2009, the Nepal cabinet met on the Mount Everest Base Camp to discuss climate change and draw the world's attention to the threat of melting glaciers on 1.5 billion people downstream of the Himalayas
This short film shows the late and severe rainfall is starting to affect Health and Education of the village.
You can see the problems starting to happen in film. These problems will increase and magnify if the extreme weather patterns continue.

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