The
aftermath of the April 25th, 26th and 12 May, 2015
Earthquake has devasted many peoples’ lives in Nepal. People are having many
difficulties to survive and different loops are looms in the society. Nepal
Government has big challenges to reconstruction of the Nepal. According to the
National daily news papers, there are more than 8800 people killed, injured
more than 22000, damaged and destroyed half million homes. We not only have
lost physical infrastructures, but also many things such as natural, cultural,
social, economical, geographical and political infrastructure due to the
earthquake. We can analyze the time and situation from different ways such as
from the perspective of receivers, perspective of donors. Most of the people
lost their shelter, some of them had lost their family members, and some of them
lost their family, land, property and hope. However, thousand people became
victim of it and they got different ways to live and became survivor. During
this two month period of crisis there are many opportunities raises for few
people in the community.
After
the mega earthquake of Nepal, most of the communities in the worst hit region
are still struggling for the take a position to come back to their daily lives.
During relief action we saw many helping hands get together for supporting to
survivors. Those who are living in abroad and inside the countries, people
engaging with organization, people without organization, and individual; they
have volunteered as much as they can, people provided economical, physical, and
moral support for the vulnerable people. In that period people showed their
real humanitarians’ feelings: people
from different caste and class coming together with ethos of belonging,
sisterhood and camaraderie. From riches to poor, from Muslims to Hindus, and
from Brahmins to Dalit sharing same ground or even same traps during the
quakes. Youths all over Nepal from various class and caste are joining hand in
hand to help the victims. They have
showed the unification in the society as being in liminality phase but it is
just a temporal stage. However sprit needs to be cashed in by I/NGO, and
government and learned from it. The spirit of togetherness, and learn from how
volunteers have come out as a lending hands. According to THT 24th
June, there are more than 100 INGOs are working in Nepal, some of them are
working through the government body, collaboration with local NGOs and
themselves as individual. It might be that they their own interest such as
getting individual or social benefit. However
they are working for the community, they are working for the survivor. Which
was really good symbol of unification of Nepalese people. Even in these torrid
times, instead to sharing and helping each other out, some people have become
materialistic and lost the humanity. However, people are struggling to survive with
the multiple challenges and problems. There are many humanitarian organizations
are supporting in the worst hit region, they are providing different materials
as support for the earthquake victims. But the human nature is strange, some of
the people are very satisfied with whatever they are getting, some of the
people are looking more support and some of the people are cashing from this
crisis. Most of the survivors have made the temporary shelter themselves, some
of them are still looking for others support whether they really need a help or
not. Some of the people really need aid that they can’t afford to rebuild their
house but some of them are losing the humanity, as they already have enough
materials to rebuild still they want to get more from other.
Government
is trying to reach survivors through different ways possible, such as providing
security & physical support through army and police. Moreover, they are
sending different NGOs and INGOs towards hit region by dividing the VDCs, they
are channeling to them to implement. However, People are blaming that
‘government is not reaching yet to the village’. Police and army personals have
worked beyond their call of duty. Along with this, the government is planning
to provide 15000.00 rupees per house as compensation.
We all know that Nepal is not
standing strongly as a position due to fluid stages of Politics. In these days
political parties also taking the opportunities that they have developed the
all party mechanism to distribute relief materials. That every relief has to go
through party system and there was competition among political parties for who
can distribute more. They are using relief as their vote banks. However, the
political parties also showing their existence by going to villages and
supporting to rebuild the new houses in different districts of hit region. Some
of the political leaders are getting opportunities to making themselves known
in the community, some of them are showing presence but most of them are concentrating
relief in the center. Few political parties namely, CPN UML, NC, and Moist
Party went to the different villages and help to destroy the cracked houses and
rebuilding the new houses. Thus, it seems some of the political parties also
showing the power in the community which is their weapon of the power. However,
this is not enough for their side they must take a lead to recover the
villagers’ life in this situation, so that they can get more vote of they can
influence them for future politics.
So called most important
‘International conference on Nepal’s reconstruction’ was held in Kathmandu last
week. And all media covered news with high importance as an achievement because
Nepal got the 4.4billion support, including loan, for the reconstruction from
the different donor and neighbor countries. However the biggest hurdle the
transparent implementation of the plan and precise use of money. So Nepal government should have a proper
planning for implementation, Gov should have to prepare sincerely for not to
miss-use the fund in the ground. There are so many loops where implementation
may fail to deliver the support for the survivor. I have been in the hit region
last month for the distributing relief materials from one of the re-known
humanitarian organization; we wanted to deliver our support as much as for the
real destitute people in the community that We had 11 different criteria and
process to identify actual quake victims. We went to the village, conducted
meeting at VDC office with VDC level leaders and secretary. Divided the beneficiaries’
number as per the criteria. Then finalize the ward wise leader to have another
ward wise meeting, and conducted ward wise meeting with ward wise leaders
including around 40 villagers, that we wanted to reach till excluded, after
that we have selected the beneficiaries name list with the help of villagers. We
had spent a lot of time meeting with the community and visiting the houses for
the verification. We end up distributing relief support as the name we have
given by the community. However, we found, we missed and excluded the few of
the real victim from the community. At last, while we were distributing the
relief we got comment from many oldies and disabled people, as we fail to
choose all the right persons from the community. While the distribution day, few
of them came to ask why I was not in the list? after few investigation we knew
they were really poor and deprived compared to some of beneficiaries. So govt
have to very careful while choosing the beneficiaries
There
are so many challenges to reach till real victim or excluded from the different
ways. After reaching to community we found that the power and politics dynamics
are adding another problem in the community, hence Donors and volunteers have
to overcome various obstacle to get to real victims. The game of power starts and
problem begins with the local level leader where s/he decides who are most
deprived people, they provide the name of victims based on the nepotism and
favorism, alienating those who are really deprived from the society.
Nepal
Gov/ Prime Minister Shusil Koirala made the promise in the conference that he
will show no tolerance for corruption or misuse of foreign aid, in country with
a history of weak oversight and as much as the government will control and try
to provide the quality of service for beneficiaries.
To
conclude, community people are getting support from different ways and forms However,
the entire survivor should be take an ownership to rebuild the nation or
village by making the model village with the help of any organization or
villagers themselves. The political parties and its leaders also should have vision
to implement the fund in proper way, thus government need to develop strong
Planning, and monitoring mechanism for implementation. Moreover, all the
Nepalese youth and the villagers also take an opportunity to rebuild and
reconstruct the nation accordingly so that all the Nepalese people can get the
face of new Nepal very soon.
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