Tin sheets or quality tarps for 500 people in Okhaldhunga, Salghari, Namandol and Setibhir, Chandapur, Lalitpur.

Description

Adequate shelter and dry food needed in wards 4, 5, 6 and 8 Okhaldhunga, Salghari, Namandol and Setibhir in Chandapurof Chandanpur, Lalitpur for approximately 500 people. 100 houses were completely destroyed, including the health centre and the school - and most homes were uninhabitable, data consistent with VDC numbers.

Everyone is currently sleeping outside their homes, but many are camped in places under risk of landslides, which claimed the life of the only fatal victim in the village. They have received small tarps and some have bought tin sheets with their personal finances to build flimsy shelters, which are generally too small to lodge medium to large sized families and not suited for daily activities. Most spend their days in what was left of their damaged houses. The health post has only one room still standing, which is still being used. We could state that particularly the large families are far from being sufficiently sheltered for the monsoon. I was shocked to witness that there were people sleeping with buffaloes, alongside feces, due to the lack of space.

According to the social mobilizer and to the other residents we talked to, they have a stock of food that should last about three weeks only. Though some continued to tend to their crops, several fields were buried by landslides and 60 to 70 livestock are reported to have been killed. Though part of the community is working daily, Chandanpur is yet another case of a village that has lost most of its musclepower to migrant labor.

The relief priorities they requested is material for building shelters and 'dry' food to last the monsoon, and it seems absolutely reasonable.
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