KAVRE, NEPAL: PICKING UP THE PIECES 10 days after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit Gorkha, Nepal, we did a post-quake damage assessment in 3 of our network of 14 affected villages in Kavre District – Fulbari, Shikhapur & Ojetha. Almost all the houses suffered considerable damage and no one feels safe living in them. Over...
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BARDIYA, NEPAL: REBUILDING 77 HOUSES Project House Rebuild officially started on 15 January this year in Gulariya village of Bardiya Municipality. Together with local village leaders, we selected 62 needy families to help rebuild their destroyed homes. Today 2.5 months later, about 10 houses are completed and 50 houses are in...
BARDIYA, NEPAL: REBUILDING 62 HOUSES 3 weeks after rebuilding work commenced, foundation work for 10 houses is completed! This is faster than expected and is a good indicator of the people’s zeal for the project and their capacity as a community. To encourage self-help and co-payment, families are...
NEPAL faced a particularly challenging 2014. In April when the annual season for Everest expeditions began, 16 Sherpa guides perished in an avalanche. In October, at the start of the trekking season, nearly 30 foreign trekkers and their local guides died in an unexpected blizzard in the Annapurna mountain range. This tragedy...