Nepali boy / by Giampiero D'Antonio

The April 2015 Nepal earthquake killed nearly 9,000 people and injured nearly 22,000.

Hundreds of thousands of Nepalese were made homeless with entire villages flattened, across many districts of the country.

Disastrous events in very poor and politically paralyzed nations such as Nepal often become , a long drawn out cain of events, in that one disaster feeds into another for years or even decades upon end. The aftereffects from the earthquake had subsequent effects on a myriad of things:  human traffic, labour cost and availability, rental and property cost burdens, urbanization, private and public debt burdens, mental health, politics, tourism, disease, and damage to the healthcare system.

This is a one of the thousands stories of people from Nepal. This is Batsal, a fantasy name, 13 years old, A very young Nepali worker in India, precisely in Rajasthan, about 1500 km away from his village and his family.

Few months after the quake, where he lost his father, the only “man” in a family of 5, with the help of Family’s friend decide to cross the border looking for fortune in India. After few experience here and there, He arrived in Bikaner, where is has been living for 4 Years, working as factotum in the hospitality field.

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