The Day I Opened My Eyes

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“The Day I Opened My Eyes: Nepal” is an interactive project made in Flash for Planned Parenthood Federation. As an educational feature, it tells the story of a young Nepali girl, as well as facts about Nepalese culture.

Part of a series commissioned by Global Partners in Washington, D.C., The Day I Opened My Eyes is hard-hitting and painfully honest theater, dealing with issues such as poverty, the lack of family planning in developing nations, HIV/AIDS, illegal abortion and honor crimes. Using powerful monologues, music, dance and larger than life photography, five teens travel on an imaginative journey into the lives of youth from different countries around the globe: Mexico, South Africa, the Netherlands, Pakistan and Nepal. In each country a different issue surrounding global health and international family planning is spotlighted, merging emotion and politics into real life stories of youth around the world.

This interactive animation is the online version of the live, theatrical presentation of the Nepal section.

*Follow the link and scroll down to find this flash movie.*