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  • The Taleju Temple, built in 1564 in Kathmandu’s Durbar Square, suffered only minor damage during the earthquake.
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  • Maru, the market area near Kathmandu Durbar Square, thrives with business as tourists have returned to the historical sites. The country is heavily dependent on arrivals from India, China, the United States, and Europe for access to foreign exchange.
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  • A quiet corner in Kathmandu’s busy Durbar Square.
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  • Hotel linens hang to dry among Hindu shrines in Dhobi Chour, the section of Kathmandu that is home to the caste of washers and others who work in the laundry industry.
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  • Men search for crawfish in the Bagmati river. Sacred to Buddhists and Hindus, the river flows among Kathmandu’s temples, bathing areas, and cremation platforms.
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  • Mahankaal Temple, Kathmandu
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  • Kathmandu’s shopping malls are open for business, but the blockade along the Indian border reduced store inventories and curtailed restaurant menus. Many shops remained closed or keep shorter hours for several months until the dispute was resolved.
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  • A Hindu priest lights candles at a shrine in Dhobi Chour.
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  • Buddhists in Patan march through the streets of the old city as part of a religious festival.
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  • Activists participate in the Citizens March to Parliament to protest the Nepali government’s lack of progress on earthquake reconstruction and its political dispute with the ethnic Madhesi people along the border with India. When a new constitution was adopted in September 2015, promising proportional representation for Nepal’s many ethnic groups under a federal structure, the Madhesis believed themselves shortchanged. Agitation and violence in the border region prevented Indian trucks from entering Nepal, creating an extreme shortage of fuel, cooking gas, and essential supplies.
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  • Kathmandu Durbar Square was the hardest hit of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the Kathmandu Valley. Though little reconstruction has begun, some debris has been removed and tourists have started to return.
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  • Buddhist priests take incense sticks as they process through the streets of Patan as part of a religious festival. The old city is home to the Newar community, who are the original inhabitants of the Kathmandu Valley and practitioners of an ancient form of Buddhism that contains many elements of Hindusim.
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  • Before the earthquake, Ashish Gurung lived with his parents in a rented brick house, where they ran a church and orphanage. Today, they feel much safer, sleeping on the floor of the tin-sided church they built in Kavresthali, outside Kathmandu, which houses their ministries.
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  • Baikuntha Manandhar (center), four-time Olympian and gold medalist in the South Asian Games, prepares for the Marathon for Peace to raise awareness for women’s and children’s justice and to show that Nepal is safe for tourists. According to UNICEF, human traffickers targeted desperately poor families to give up their children after the earthquake. Manandhar and a group of runners began at Bhaktapur Durbar Square, among the damaged temples, and continued to Kathmandu and Patan.
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  • The Kathmandu Valley, home to 2.5 million people and seven World Heritage sites, was devastated by the April 2015 earthquake and its aftershocks. Nearly 9,000 people were killed, hundreds of thousands of homes destroyed, and many historic and religious sites flattened. In the months following the devastation, Nepal adopted a new constitution and formed a new government, but found itself in a dispute over the representation of an ethnic group on the Indian border, the Madhesis. Agitation in the Terai region and India’s support of a blockade have severely reduced the flow of fuel, cooking gas, and essential supplies into Nepal, reversing the small gains made after the earthquake and plunging the country into an economic and political crisis.
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  • Managed by UNICEF, the Chuchepati tent camp houses 3,500 internally displaced persons in Kathmandu. Though the numbers have been falling as people transition to more permanent homes, aid workers are now seeing a reverse, as firewood replaces cooking gas due to the blockade. Residents in rented apartments cannot cook with firewood in their kitchens and so are returning to the tent camps.
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  • Kathmandu Durbar Square
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  • Thanka Painting school, Bhaktapur
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  • Workers continue the demolition of a damaged home in Patan. Over a year after the earthquake, many structures remain unsound and must be strengthened or taken down. The Nepali government’s failure to release funds donated by the international community has prevented timely assessment and action.
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  • Men fashion a basket from lumber scraps in Bhaktapur Durbar Square. Ordinary earthquake debris, including lumber and bricks, is salvaged for reuse, while materials from historical sites are catalogued with an eye toward reconstruction.
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