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“...many more houses and schools were damaged and destroyed (GHF website accessed on May 9, 2017). Lhakpa Norbu Sherpa, 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...”