Nepal is one of the poorest nations in Asia and it struggles
to feed and educate its children in the best of its times. A decade-long civil
war between government forces and Maiost rebels left in its wake an unstable
political system.
Nepal's challenges are many and the magnitude 7.8 tremor
that hit Nepal three months ago brought a new suffering for the Nepalese.
People are trying to pick up the pieces and get on with their lives despite the
challenges, which definitely is very tough.
The
country remains perilously unstable, with the risk of landslides from ongoing
aftershocks, forcing thousands to leave their homes and camp out in open fields
when the seasonal monsoon rain has already started.
Nepal's
government estimates that reconstruction will cost a third of the country's GDP
- but with so many barriers it could take years to rebuild the country. There
is also the threat of the spread of disease and cholera, has already out broke
in the capital. The children have started playing, but many fear still going to
school in the worst-hit areas. Many of them show signs of skin diseases, coughs
and fevers.
Living a life in this crisis has been a mixture of fear and
hope. There is a constant fear that anything may happen at any time. Even a
small jolt shakes our whole emotions now. But, at the same time, there were
good people and organizations who helped us to overcome our grief, which gives
some rays of hope. It gives faith in humanity.
As
Mahatma Gandhi said: "You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is
like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become
dirty."
The
crisis that occurred after the earthquake made me realize the value of his
saying. Just because of this humanity we are surviving. If so many people and
different national and international organizations hadn't helped us to rise, we
wouldn't have become able to even hope for our survival and dreaming of
rebuilding would be a hard dream.
World Humanitarian Day has a great significance in all our
lives, when we can appreciate the humanity within us. We must help each other
to live like a human and enlighten the world with the brightness of education.
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