KATHMANDU, Nepal—The violence of the 7.8-magnitude earthquake left countless towns and villages across central Nepal in shambles. Almost one year later, in shambles they remain.
The country has made almost no progress in rebuilding hundreds of thousands of homes, schools, and government buildings, as well as some 600 historical structures, including ancient Hindu and Buddhist temples, monuments, and palaces.
Nearly a million children still have no school to attend. Millions of villagers were forced to winter in flimsy pop-up tents and corrugated tin shacks, erected haphazardly at high altitudes and across the rolling plains.
Many are still living in rows of temporary shelters made from salvaged wood covered with corrugated metal sheets that are likely to be their only protection when the rainy season returns in two months.
