Baglung flood survivors face Dashain without homes as rebuilding stalls

Families in Baglung are living in a cooperative building, relatives’ homes and a buffalo shed after floods swept away their houses and farmland. Many struggle to secure land and meet government requirements for reconstruction aid.

For Rajman Budha, Dashain is usually a time to celebrate at home with family. This year, however, he and his six family members, including his elderly father, are spending the festival in a single room at an agricultural cooperative’s building, with no home of their own to return to.