Post by account_disabled on Feb 19, 2024 8:15:38 GMT
On a day like today, around 12 noon. local time, the earth roared in the Himalayan country. It claimed nearly 9,000 lives, injured more than 22,000 people, and damaged or destroyed some 750,000 homes . It affected a third of the population, around 8 million people. Its devastating effects are still being felt. I read with attention and sadness the chronicles of the testimonies that our colleagues send us from the country. Lives buried under the rubble, lives broken above them. In just a few seconds, a few minutes, that feel like an eternity, everything around us changes. The painful memories they convey are clouded, filled with enveloping dust and silenced by thunderous sound. The tremor broke into their daily lives: “I was watching TV with my son”; “I was picking fruit”; “I was going by bus to the market”; “I had just fed the baby and was working in the field”… And, suddenly, everything collapses: houses, roads, trees, rocks, ... “It was very scary; "I can't remember everything about that day, I don't want to remember it anymore," Thulimaya Lama tells us. A terrible feeling comparable to that of the victims of the recent earthquake in Ecuador . Lose everything in a moment. Beyond losing your own home, the world.
Pablo Tosco/Oxfam Intermón Kanchi Sunar, a 55-year-old widow, has not been able to overcome the loss of her daughter: “Due to the earthquake, my house was completely demolished, and my 22-year-old daughter died. If it had only affected my house I would have been able to get over it, but since my daughter's death I have been suffering a lot.” "The day of the earthquake I was visiting a temple. I ran back home, my daughter-in-law alerted me: "The house is completely destroyed and the stable demolished, but the cattle Asia Mobile Number List are fine." "And I told her that as long as they were fine, then everything it was good. Then I called my daughter, but her cell phone was turned off. I didn't find out my daughter had died until the next day. He didn't know what had happened to him. From that day on I started to feel very depressed because I thought everything was lost; everything had disappeared. There's no way I can get over it, even now. “I have worked all my life to support my children and now my daughter has died.” nepal-oxfam "The place I am sitting on is where my house used to be. It is the only piece of land I have. With the help of emergency materials I have been able to build a temporary shelter” Kanchi Sunar © Kieran Doherty/Oxfam Kanchi goes to the women's center promoted by Oxfam.
There she finds comfort: ”They have taught me not to be so depressed, to not think so much about what happened and to think about the people around me. “I have two sons, a daughter-in-law and two granddaughters.” She is very grateful because she has helped him build a shelter, a place where they can be, a place she can call home. However, the temporary shelter is now their permanent abode, where all 6 members of the family live. “Life in this shelter is very difficult. During the winter it was very cold, dewdrops fell from the ceiling and wet the mattress and duvet. I had to dry them every day. I have asthma and it is very difficult for me to breathe, I must cover myself well so as not to get sicker.” The majority of the victims continue to live, like Kanchi, in temporary shelters and with these precarious conditions they will have to overcome the next monsoons. We are talking about approximately two million people. The agreed compensation of 200,000 Nepalese rupees - 1,664 euros) per household has not begun to be distributed. This support is insufficient to rebuild even the smallest houses and this also depends on those who request it having ownership certificates for the land.