Recovery is undramatic by design. Six months after the landslides, the work in these districts is about foundations, seed, paperwork and patience — none of which photographs well, all of which determines whether children are still in school next year.
Schools first
Eleven schools were damaged beyond immediate use. Nine are back in operation, four of them in temporary structures while rebuilding continues on sites reassessed for landslide risk. The remaining two are being relocated entirely.
180K
children whose schooling was interrupted by the floods
The families who recovered fastest were the ones who got cash early and chose for themselves what to spend it on. We were not always the best judge of what a household needed most.
- Unconditional cash transfers to the worst-affected households
- Replacement seed and tools timed to the next planting season
- Rebuilding of water points and latrines at relocated school sites
- Community landslide early-warning committees, trained and equipped
The early-warning committees are the part our teams most want to keep funded. They cost very little, they are run by the people they protect, and in the last heavy rains they moved four households out of the way of a slope that then gave way.
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