Nepal Earthquake - The Hong Kong Committee for UNICEF

On 31 May 2015, Ramesh Shrestha helps his teachers and others to place the makeshift school tent in appropriate place to resume classes in Shree Balephi Secondary School in Balephi, Sindhupalchowk, one of the hardest-hit district by the earthquake. After five week hiatus following the earthquakes of 25 April and 12 May, teachers, members of school management committee, students and parents worked together to set up the makeshift school.

First Day of School Package - Photos from Sindhupalchowk - 31 May 2015

A year on Nepal earthquakes: Education continues in affected districts but children still need safe and stable learning environment

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© UNICEF/UNI185885/Karki – After five week following the earthquakes of 25 April and 12 May, teachers, members of school management committee, students and parents worked together to set up the makeshift school. The earthquake in 2015 destroyed over 35,000 classrooms, jeopardizing the education of almost 1 million children in Nepal. Over 179,300 children benefited from the […]

From one epicentre to another

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From Balakot to Barpak: I cried once again

Ten years after witnessing the horror created by a devastating earthquake in my country Pakistan, I was in Nepal’s Gorkha, a district at the centre of the 25 April 2015 earthquake. I had spent a year in Balakot, the epicentre, and in October 2015 I joined UNICEF Nepal country programme to lead the Gorkha Emergency Site Office.

Geeta Thapa,aged 16, at her home in purano Gau, Ramechaap, Nepal.12 March 2016. Geeta and her 5 younger sisters was left by father and mother. Now, they are living on their own. Being a elder sister Geeta has all responsibilities of their younger sisters. During conversation she promised not to marry on her entire life to contribute sisters future better.

A child-headed household perseveres a year after the Nepal earthquake

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RAMECHHAP, Nepal/HONG KONG, 21 April 2016 – One week after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit central Nepal on 25 April 2015, Kabita Shrestha was out in the field.

In Nepal, growing up at the epicentre

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GORKHA, Nepal/HONG KONG, 21 April 2016 – “I love my daughter the most in the whole world,” said Amita Gurung, holding her baby Arpita tightly in her arms. “But when I think of the day she was born, I feel like crying.”

In November 2015, earthquake-displaced school student Rashmi Tamang leads her friends as they return from the forest after collecting firewood in Dhunche, the district headquarters of Rasuwa. Since the earthquake on 25 April 2015 devastated their homes and schools in Haku Village Development Committee in the district, Tamang and her 14 fellow school mates have been living in a tented hostel for the past eight months to continue their education in a nearby UNICEF-supported temporary learning centre (TLC). In the midst of winter, life has become hard for the students as they are also affected by the fuel crisis and shortage of essential supplies including fuel and food.

Nepal: Serious shortage of essential supplies threatens millions of children this winter – UNICEF

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KATHMANDU, Nepal/ HONG KONG, 30 November 2015 –More than three million children under the age of five in Nepal are at risk of death or disease during the harsh winter months due to a severe shortage of fuel, food, medicines and vaccines – warns UNICEF. In the past ten weeks, vital imports of essential commodities […]

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UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador David Beckham visits children in Nepal six months after earthquake

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UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador David Beckham today met children at a temporary learning centre established with support from UNICEF in Kathmandu after the earthquake hit.

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Nepal Earthquake Six Months Report

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Nepal Earthquake Three Months Report

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Three months on from first Nepal quake, children still at risk

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© UNICEF/UNI187811/Shrestha – Thirteen-year-old Anjali listens to her grandfather Dil Bahadur Darain speak about his son, daughter-in-law and grandson, who died during the April 25 earthquake in Nepal. KATHMANDU, Nepal/ HONG KONG, 25 July 2015 – Three months after Nepal’s April 25 earthquake and its aftershocks, children continue to face multiple risks as their families have […]

In Nepal, escaping an uncertain fate

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KATHMANDU, NEPAL/ HONG KONG, 24 July 2015 – Sapana*, 15, still shudders when she thinks of how she was almost tricked into going to India.

“I will never forget that day when I was about to make a horrible mistake due to my desperate situation,” she says.

Sapana was just 13 when she stopped going to school in her village of Chhatiwan, in Nepal’s Makwanpur district, and instead went to work in a carpet factory 130 km away in Kathmandu, in order to help support her family.