Sheltering with relatives or in temporary camps, survivors of devastating floods in Nepal say they can no longer rebuild their homes after the landscape was violently transformed, leaving them focused simply on survival.
Pabitra Lamsal had lived with her family in Dhunge Bazaar, in the Nuwakot district, for over 40 years.
But the family’s two homes and her rice paddy fields have vanished, swept away by the floodwaters.
She leaves with a bag of rice, a packet of noodles, oil and biscuits.
Nearby, gutted buildings, half-buried trucks, and mountains of mud bear witness to the violence of the floodwaters that swept everything away in their path.
Army helicopters, deployed for rescue operations, fly overhead at regular intervals.
The devastating August 26 flood, after a vast glacial mountain collapse high above on the China-Nepal border crashed into the river below, has killed more than 1,300 people and left more than 5,600 missing across both countries.
The United Nations appealed on Friday for $50 million to help more than 84,000 people in Nepal affected by the disaster.
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