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CIAA's report on corruption on earthquake relief
Posted by Anup Baral November 29, 2015 :
Sunday 25 October marks 6 months since a 7.8 magnitude earthquake devastated Nepal. This was followed by a subsequent earthquake less than 3 weeks later and numerous aftershocks. Nearly 9,000 people were killed while 8 million were impacted. With more than 35,000 classrooms destroyed, nearly 1 million children did not have a school to return to when schools resumed in May.As winter sets in and the mountain air drops to freezing, thousands of others struggle to keep the cold out of their tarpaulin shelters and donated tents.The temporary structure is just a couple rusty sheets of corrugated tin propped up with a stick. Karki uses her hands to signal that she could barely get any sleep there, and her back ached."We don't know what to do next," says Aitee Tamang, a 24-year-old woman in the Thali camp on the outskirts of Kathmandu, with hundreds of others from Sindupalchowk district, the epicentre of the April 25 earthquake.
Sunday 25 October marks 6 months since a 7.8 magnitude earthquake devastated Nepal. This was followed by a subsequent earthquake less than 3 weeks later and numerous aftershocks. Nearly 9,000 people were killed while 8 million were impacted. With more than 35,000 classrooms destroyed, nearly 1 million children did not have a school to return to when schools resumed in May.As winter sets in and the mountain air drops to freezing, thousands of others struggle to keep the cold out of their tarpaulin shelters and donated tents.The temporary structure is just a couple rusty sheets of corrugated tin propped up with a stick. Karki uses her hands to signal that she could barely get any sleep there, and her back ached."We don't know what to do next," says Aitee Tamang, a 24-year-old woman in the Thali camp on the outskirts of Kathmandu, with hundreds of others from Sindupalchowk district, the epicentre of the April 25 earthquake.
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