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.
In the week of World Animal Day, Metropolis looks at the life of dogs all around the world. This episode has been the object of much debate in the Metropolis editorial team: what can we show, and what can’t we show? We received many documentaries that were terrible to watch, but they did show the reality of other cultures. In the episode that was televised we have deleted the most gruesome images. But a warning is justified: some of the contributions to this show contain shocking images and are inappropriate for young viewers.
In this special Metropolis show, the correspondents show us the life of dogs all around the world. In Indonesia we see Jamal out in the streets at night with dogcatchers from Jakarta. Every night they roam the streets looking for dogs they can use as an ingredient for their meals. And in Goma, Congo, we see the faith of a dog that is bewitched, according to the population.
The life of a dog is much better in Berlin, where correspondent Robin follows two spoiled poodles, or in Bolivia, where our correspondent found a breed that possesses healing powers according to the people of La Paz. And if you really don’t know what to do with your dog, you can take it to New York, where psychiatrist Christine Agro helps rich dogs to overcome their identity crisis.
