Tagged: Nepal earthquake

A group of children sittin gon the ground with an adult.

From one epicentre to another

Children in emergencies

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From Balakot to Barpak: I cried once again Ten years after witnessing the horror created by a devastating earthquake in my country Pakistan, I was in Nepal’s Gorkha, a district at the centre of the 25 April 2015 earthquake. I had spent a year in Balakot, the epicentre, and in October 2015 I joined UNICEF Nepal country programme to lead… Read more →←
Mom and her baby with another woman.

Kindling hope for mothers in earthquake-affected Nepal

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The casual encounter Sometimes we bump into people and think we’ll never see them again—but we do. It happened to me this winter when I visited a UNICEF-supported shelter home for pregnant and lactating mothers in Kharanitar, Nuwakot. Whenever I visit the shelter homes, I usually chat with patients to see how they are and how they… Read more →←
A Simjung health post staff uses a fetuscope to listen to fetal heartbeat in the newly established birthing centre.

Nepal: difficult terrain is no match for determination

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After a few kilometres from Gorkha Bazaar, the gravel road ends and the narrow dirt road to Simjung begins. The bumpy ride on the road felt like an internal massage to my system. However, the worse was yet to come. As we reached Chanaute, the road split. One led to our destination Simjung, while the other went to Takumajh, another… Read more →←

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