KAVRE, NEPAL: REBUILDING UPDATE. PRAKASH BHAI (second from right) is a young man from Baral Gaon village. After the quake, he was hired by our rebuilding team as an apprentice iron-worker.
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KAVRE, NEPAL: REBUILDING UPDATE Our team has been making up for lost time right after the 6-month long Indian blockade ended in June 2016. 55 houses are completed to date and although this is a small drop in an ocean of housing needs (500,610 destroyed houses to be exact), they are not deterred by the enormous task and are...
KAVRE, NEPAL: REBUILDING UPDATE We have completed a total of 45 houses in three villages – Nala (12 houses), Rabi (12 houses) and Opi (21 houses). An Opening Ceremony for Janagal, our fourth location, was conducted on 15 September with 25 homeowners and various leaders and representatives of the area. It was a...
KAVRE, NEPAL: POST QUAKE UPDATE Among the 319 deaths, 2,789 badly injured, 59,933 completely destroyed houses and 23,714 partially destroyed homes in Kavre district, we are working with 138 very needy families from 5 VDC (Village Development Committee) in this district.
KAVRE, NEPAL: POST QUAKE UPDATE On Sunday 17 July, we went to Rabi village (our third in five targeted villages) to check on the house rebuilding work. Out of the 15 houses to be built, 8 are in progress. The following 3 families have finished casting their reinforced concrete footers. Another 3 families have completed...
KAVRE, NEPAL: POST QUAKE UPDATE One year after the quake, 21 targeted families in Nala and Opi have completed their house frames and almost half have done up their walls and moved in. 117 more households to go! Homeowner Sarsworti Tolange of Opi village (below) said she never dreamed she would get to live in a house with...