A look on Nepal today ...

http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-nepal-dzi-foundation/

Emergency earthquake relief is vital but short-lived. The Dzi Foundation brings Nepalis aid that lasts.

By Abe Streep | December 3, 2015 Photographs by Adam Ferguson From Bloomberg

The road loses form in the night. That’s probably a good thing. It’s not much of a road at this point, more a gully full of boulders and hail drifts perched on a cliff. The truck, a 1980-something Tata, bottoms out regularly. Occasionally it fishtails toward the edge and a drop-off of a few hundred feet into the blackness of eastern Nepal’s Khotang district. “Have you looked down?” asks Ben Ayers, the Nepal director of the Dzi Foundation, a nonprofit development group focused on rural communities. The passengers in the car, myself included, too busy bracing ourselves for the next spine-jarring impact, ignore the question.

We’ve been driving for 14 hours. Our guru—a term of respect for drivers in Nepal—is a 20-year-old kid named Jeevan, who recently took over the wheel from his 17-year-old brother, whom Ayers hired after a guy with an impressive rattail ripped us off. “My brother doesn’t know how to drive,” Jeevan says, his earrings glinting. “He doesn’t even have a license!”

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Misguided priorities

• The govt’s argument that the ‘relief phase’ is now over and all focus should be on rebuilding is flawed Shradha Ghale

JUN 24 - Two months after the massive earthquake, the government has declared that the ‘relief phase’ is over and focus should now be on reconstruction. No one can deny the enormity of the task the government was faced with during this time. And yet it is hard not to conclude that the government’s relief efforts were largely a failure.

La suite ... 

http://www.ekantipur.com/2015/06/24/oped/misguided-priorities/406964.html

10 charts that capture how Nepal is struggling to survive after the earthquake (qz.com)

On April 25, Nepal was devastated by a massive earthquake measuring 7.8 on the richter scale, which killed thousands and displaced millions.

Now, the Nepalese need to rebuild what was lost—most importantly, their homes and key facilities like healthcare and education. And that is the toughest part.

La suite ... (http://qz.com/431350/10-charts-that-capture-how-nepal-is-struggling-to-survive-after-the-earthquake/)