Children in quake-hit areas in need of physiological counselling

Many of those orphaned in the disaster are under mental duress as they struggle to recover from the trauma.

A 12-year-old boy from Banke Pipalgaura in ward 14 of Athbiskot Municipality lost his mother in the November 3 earthquake. His world hasn’t been the same again. The boy, who lives under a tarpaulin tent with his father and two older brothers, can be mostly seen lost in thought.