Two years after the earthquake in Nepal 800.000 buildings are still in ruins. Watch the unique 360-video documentation of how the people try to rebuild their lives from a life in tents and temporary shelters.
Av Jonatan Fried 25 april, 2017
The earthquake in Nepal 2015 killed nearly 9.000 people and destroyed more than 800.000 buildings. Two years later more than half a million families have to spend another winter in tents, corrugated metal structures and other temorary shelters.
Despite a large committement of international aid, the rebuilding of houses and local schools has been slow.
With the monsoon rains set to begin in a few weeks, the frustration is mounting for ordinary people who have been living in limbo for longer than anyone expected.
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Read more about OneWorld and their work:
- Why has the reconstruction been so slow
- What is Nepals education system like
- Is there anything I can do to help
Fifteen-year-old Barmai Tamang´s family house was destryed in the earthquake. She was in the forest, picking berries. Luckely for Barmai, and millions of other Nepali children, the main tremor happened on a Saturday, late in the morning. It´s the one day Nepali children don´t go to school. Some 8.000 schools were damaged – many of them, like Barmai´s, were completly destoyed – but the death toll could have been much higher.
In this 360- degree video, the Nepalese journalist Bhrikuti Rai and the photoghrapher Bikram Rai, take you to the mountains of Sindhupaichuk and the busting streets of Katmandu to explore what it´s like for the tens of thousands of shool children trying to continue their education in temporary classrooms and to rebuild their lives from temporary shelters.
The video was produced as a cooperation between OneWorld and Blankspot.
