Photo Credit: Laxmi Prasad Ngakhushi It has been 50 days since the devastating earthquake struck Nepal on April 25. With another powerful aftershock on May 12, a combined 9, 000 lives were…
Nepali women listening to an official. Photo credit: World Bank This post was originally published on Time Women have lost the most—and they have the most to lose On April 25 and May 12, Nepal was…
Biswash, a 12 year old staying at the temporary camp in Uttar Dhoka showing the Dharahara collage he made. Photo - Suresh Ghimire On April 25, the day of the earthquake, my colleagues and I were…
Keshav’s house (left) and his mother’s house (right), before the earthquake In Nepal’s hamlets and villages, in the first days following the 7.8 magnitude earthquake on April 25, families…
Kathmandu after the first earthquake It has been a month since a 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit central Nepal on April 25. What happened next? Having experienced a real threat of death, many…
I was struck by an interview featured in a recent show of CBC Radio One's The Current. Nani Gautam, a live-in caregiver in Canada, was asked how important was the money she sent home to her…
Volunteers transporting relief supplies. Credits: Rajib Upadhya. World Bank Nepal is coping with the consequences of a disastrous earthquake. During the next months the government will be under a…
Relief supplies being unloaded from a New Zealand C-130 at the airport in Tuvalu after Cyclone Pam struck some outer islands. Photo: Nora Weisskopf When disaster strikes, air transport is often…
Security forces clearing the rubble at the historic Patan Durbar Square in Kathmandu Valley. Credits: Rajib Upadhya. World Bank It is Day Ten since the earthquake struck Nepal and the scale of…
Nepal Poverty Map @World Bank While Kathmandu is steadily fighting to get back to some sense of normalcy, the situation is very different outside the capital where all districts around Kathmandu…