After Nepal's Earthquake Children Continue To Face Multiple Risks

After Nepal's April 25 earthquake and its aftershocks, children continue to face multiple risks as their families have been pushed deeper into poverty and they remain in need of aid.

The onset of the monsoon rains has triggered landslides and flooding. Many of those still living in Nepal's mountainous Rasuwa District have been leaving en masse, in search of safer living accommodations.

Now there are 31 households from the destroyed Haku Village living in the tented settlement in Dhunche Village, the Rasuawa district headquarters and they are increasingly dependent on a waning supply of food and aid.

About 1 million children affected by the earthquakes continue to live in areas at high risk of landslides and floods. As the rainy season takes hold, access to these areas is becoming increasingly challenging, threatening these children's access to water, sanitation, education and health services and putting them at a higher risk of exploitation and abuse, including trafficking.

More than 10,000 children have been identified as acutely malnourished since the first earthquake. These include more than 1,000 children with severely acute malnutrition. Over 200 children remain without a parent or caregiver, and more than 600 have lost one or both of their parents to the quakes. Over 32,000 classrooms have been destroyed. Nearly 900,000 houses have been damaged or destroyed.
STORY: NEPAL / EARTHQUAKE DISPLACED COMMUNITIES
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: NEPALI /NATS
DATELINE: 13 JULY 2015, DHUNCHE VILLAGE & HAKU VILLAGE, RASUWA DISTRICT, NEPAL

SHOT LIST:

1. Wide shot, mountainous terrain in Rasuwa District, Nepal
2.Wide shot, Haku village on mountain >pan> evidence of landslide
3. Wide shot, evidence of landslide on mountain road"
4. Med shot, destroyed buildings in Haku Village
5. Med shot, destroyed buildings in Haku Village
6.Wide shot, temporary camp in Rasuwa district headquarter, Dhunche Village
7.Wide shot, family sitting near tent home
8.Med shot, group of people sitting
9.Close shot, Yam Futi Tamang with baby
10. SOUNDBITE (Nepali) Yam Futi Tamang, displaced person:
"The entire (Haku) village is suffering from the landslide hazard. My house has also been swept away by the landslide. Nothing remained so I had to come here empty hand. It has only been 5-6 days since we arrived here."
11. Med shot, Nor Sangmo Tamang tilling plants
12. Close shot, Nor Sangmo Tamang tilling plants
13. Close shot, Nor's child in grass
14. Med shot, Nor and children entering tent home
15. Close shot, Nor and child in tent
16. Close shot, child's face
17. SOUNDBITE (Nepali) Nor Sangmo Tamang, displaced person:
"Since the monsoon has started, the frequency of landslide has increased in the upper village. With the fear of being swept away by the landslide, I have come here for safety."
18. Med shot, Nor and children in tent with school supplies
19. Close shot, children in tent
20. Med shot, girl with baby in front of tent
21. Med shot, people in front of tent
22. Med shot, people eating in tent
23. Med shot, Dawa Lama tilling plants
24. SOUNDBITE (Nepali) Dawa Lama, displaced person:
"We have to depend on the little relief provided by the government. We don't have any work here, what do we do? We are wasting time doing nothing, eating the food supplied by the government, we don't have a job."
25. Pan left, tents
26. Tilt up, clouds over the mountains


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