One Year Later, Earthquake Survivors Still Lack Proper
Shelter
A year after last October’s massive
South Asian earthquake, aid agencies are warning that
nearly two-million people are facing a second Himalayan
winter without proper shelter. VOA’s Benjamin Sand
revisits one of the communities hit hardest by the October
8, 2005 quake and files this report on the disaster’s
devastating legacy.
A song tells of the life and death of one of the quake’s
victims.
“When I died,” the girl sings, “my body
was broken and spread throughout the land. My family could
not find me and I left without being buried.”
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