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“...who was in the region during
and after the two major earthquakes, reported that data
collected in the Thame Valley (Namche VDC’s wards
4-9) show 93 percent of residential and tourist struc-
tures damaged by the earthquake; 66 percent were fully
damaged (unusable without major reconstruction) and
27 percent partially damaged (safe to use with repairs)
(Sherpa 2015). Despite the documentation of losses on
the ground, governmental reports of earthquake-affected
zones on a national level appeared showing Solukhumbu
as ‘unaffected,’ or ‘less affected.’ Maps were created within
months, for the purposes of identifying damage and
rebuilding targets. It is notable that these maps portray
earthquake-affected zones neatly contained within district
boundaries. This representation distorts the realities on
the ground, where the impact from the earthquakes did
not stop at the district boundaries.
Rebuilding Individual Homes
In addition to documenting loss, our initial conversa-
tions then evolved to discussing...”
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