I didn’t used to hate the members of Parliament, but when I saw them misusing the relief materials, I completely lost my trust in government. But then again, seeing people in the communities working hand-in-hand, I believed that yes, humanity does still exist in all of us.
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First Person Accounts
- Saugat Adhikary: “If we are united, we can rise again”
- Pratyush Pradhan: “Frankly, I thought volunteering was dull and boring before the quake”
- Sushmita Sapkota: “The destruction taught me to think and work for the sake of others”
- Ishwor Shrestha: “For the first time in my life, I felt bad for people who were unknown to me”
- Pujan Shrestha: “I heard someone screaming Bhuichaalo aaaayooo!!!”
- Safal Shrestha: “People said, ‘It’s God who has done this to kill the evils of the earth.'”
- Aayush Ratna Sthapit: “I felt a sudden push from deep down in the earth”
- Basanta Thapa: “I completely lost my trust in government”
- Bidhya Acharya: “It left a permanent darkness in the minds and hearts of our people”
- Ishu Adhikari: “I found joy in helping people in need”
- Ranjai Baidya: “I learnt that you can really see what people are made of in times like these”
- Safal Bastola: “We should forget the past and move on to a new beginning”
- Pratika Bhandary: “I never encountered any difficulties in my life until the earthquake struck”
- Bijay: “It was the first time I ever saw people getting trampled by a running mob”
- Aazad Dahal: “I Thought I had gone mad”
- Arun Dahal: “Tears can ease the pain, but the trauma behind the tears is everlasting”
- Suman Dhakal: “The wounds may heal, but the scars will always remain”
- Pratik Dhungel: “If a man says he is not afraid to die, he is either lying or he’s a Gurkha”
- Shefalika Gautam: “I needed to help those in need, to give what I could and not be selfish”
- Ajay Gurung: “I felt broken and I couldn’t even leave my home”
- Nischal Gyawali: “A hut had collapsed, burying a small baby…”
- Sweta Hamal: “Suddenly, I was changed from a selfish, unaware, lazy young teenager into an aware, responsible citizen”
- Upeachya Kansakar: “I lay out on the ground alone for what seemed like hours”
- Isha Khanal: “I was never scared that something bad might happen to me”
- Prasant Khanal: “I saw a flower blooming on the battlefield”