Children whose clasrooms were damaged by the powerful earthquake that struck Nepal in April are now heading to class in new learning centers built by IRC partner AAR Japan, which also provided school uniforms and school supplies.
On April 25 Srijana Dhital was spending a Saturday morning at home with her family when the walls started shaking violently around them.
They ran out of the house just before it collapsed, relieved to have escaped injury. But their home in the Himalayan foothills was gone — one of hundreds of thousands of houses destroyed in the largest earthquake disaster in Nepal’s history.
As she and her family rigged up a shelter for themselves using sheets of tin and plastic tarps, Srijana, a 21-year-old teacher, realized how drastically her life had changed in an instant.