Women in Nepal mail condoms to husbands
尼泊尔山区的妇女给海外工作的丈夫邮寄避孕套。

Tue Nov 6, 4:59 PM ET

KATMANDU, Nepal - Women in a Nepal mountain village have been mailing condoms to their husbands working overseas to protect them from sexually transmitted diseases, a news report said Tuesday.
星期二的新闻报道：尼泊尔山区的妇女给海外工作的丈夫邮寄避孕套。

The women of Pang village have been writing their husbands letters urging them not to have sex with others — but they have been enclosing condoms just in case, the Kantipur newspaper reported.

Pang村的妇女们写信给他们的丈夫敦促他们不要和其他人发生性关系。但是她们在邮报里夹带了避孕套。

Social workers have been counseling the women about sexually transmitted diseases.
社会工作者给当地妇女传授关于性疾病传播的知识。

"As I learned that unsafe relations make a person vulnerable to HIV, I sent a condom along with the letters to my husband," one of the village wives, Laxmi Sunar, told the newspaper.

An estimated 3 million people from impoverished Nepal work overseas, most as manual laborers, and send money home to support their families.
大约有三百万人离开贫困的尼泊尔到海外工作，其中大部分是体力劳动者，把挣来的钱寄回家。