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On April 25, 2015, an earthquake, magnitude of 7.8 Richter scale, shook the country of Nepal causing massive devastation to the houses, roads, heritage sites, public buildings and school and college buildings. The death toll would have been more if it were in any other school days than Saturday. The ill-fated disaster was followed by hundreds of major and minor aftershocks that caused further damage to the already weakened infrastructures. The earthquakes took the lives of more than 8500 people, thousands of injuries and made millions homeless. (more…)

Bijaya Narayan Maharjan, 38, from Shankharapur Municipality-8, of Kathmandu District, is a constructor by profession. He recalled his memory saying, “We were at Church on 25th April. Thanks to Jesus that we survived. If it wasn’t Saturday, we would not have been able to survive in our old house.” (more…)

“A 19-years-old girl, at the age of weaving her dreams for the future, now stands still in front of debris of her flattened house. All her dreams are shattered now. She is afraid to dream now, and what she wants now is just a place, a place to hide herself, her mother, her father and a little brother.” (more…)

Like many others in his community, Prem Bahadur Nagarkoti, with his family members, had to take an emergency shelter in a large shade after his three-storied bricked house was totally devastated by the earthquake on April 25, 2015.   (more…)

Gamcha is a small cluster of ultra-poor communities at Kirtipur, situated about 10 km south-west from Kathmandu. The place had been hard-hit by the earthquakes of 25th and 26th April 2015. (more…)

A global experience shows that psychosocial support is crucial for the long-term recovery of earthquake survivors and their communities. Nepal is one of the highly earthquake vulnerable countries. After the earthquakes, Nepal started to see psychosocial support as one of the post-disaster priorities but felt the lack of proper training and counseling.  (more…)

CIUD has implemented the project with support of UN-Habitat (‘from the People of Japan’ funded) in 4 districts of Nepal (Kathmandu, Lalitpur, Bhaktapur and Dolakha). The project has selected the families who have been hard hit by the April 25th Gorakha Earthquake, and priority has been given to earthquake affected poor families; families with elderly, children, pregnant women; families with disabled people and women headed families.   (more…)