Best known for the Media Advocacy, Media Help Line (MHL) is one of the best-established media and communication organization in Nepal. Since 2001, MHL has been at the forefront of new development in media studies and new means of communication to the broader audience through the team members of expert/professionals.
Its remit includes all the component of media such as print, audio, and visual media. Having particular commitment to promote the public understanding on socio-cultural, human rights, gender discrimination, socio-economic, socio-political, environmental sanitation issues, infrastructure development and psychosocial issues; it has grown to be a unique media forum i.e. known for imagination, creativity and presentation. ‘Talk of the Town’, a prominent national talk show on socio-developmental issues has uplifted the disaster, mental health and psychosocial and urban issues which is one of its preeminent productions of MHL. MHL is better known as a change maker through its effective communication and determination towards social development.
Collaborating with government of Nepal summoning its three tiers i.e. the federal, provincial and local, UN agencies and other international organizations, non-governmental organizations as well as community based organizations; Media Help Line has been playing its significant role as campaigning media advocacy through producing video documentaries and TV/Radio programs based on urban environmental management, earthquake and natural disasters, urbanization and public infrastructure development and society, ecological sanitation and health and hygiene.
MHL has already produced several award-winning documentary films, notably A Life with Slate (2006) and Playing with Nan (2012) and Tama Gaun (2015). Those have been screened at more than 60 international film festivals around the world and have won several prizes. Our TV and radio programs, documentary films, audio-visual feature reports are suggested as the highly prioritize media advocacy tools to position the issue of urbanization, environment, and sanitation more prominently on the national agenda by raising the issue’s profile with politician, civil society, media, and general public.