Cold tarps are forcing families back to damaged homes

A magnitude 6.4 earthquake hit Jajarkot, Rukum West and Salyan on November 3 killing scores and damaging around 8,000 public and private houses.

The five-member family of Lalita Khatri, a permanent resident of Thanagaun in ward 2 of Darma Rural Municipality, lived under a tarpaulin tent and a temporary hut for about two and half months after the November 3 earthquake damaged their stone-and-mud house. They had been displaced as the wall of their house developed cracks in the disaster and was declared unfit for habitation.