The overflowing of Bhaktapur’s major rivers on July 12 caused widespread flooding in the area, resulting in three deaths and over Rs 120 million worth of damages. As our main story this week shows, the hardest hit in these floods were people from lowest economic strata: those running small retail shops and cottage industries. A week after, they were still struggling to come to terms with the tragedy.

One of them was Lal Lama of Radhe Radhe in Thimi. On the morning of July 12, Lama found his two children floating in the water that had seeped into his small shop. He nearly drowned as well. Barely was he able to save his family. This wasn’t the first time tragedy struck the Lama family. In fact, it had been displaced from its earlier abode in Kavre by the 2015 earthquakes. Most of their belongings destroyed by floods, Lal’s family may have to move again.  

 

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