audio, stills, text and or video: Go to zReportage.com to see more - Four months ago, a massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Nepal. The devastating earthquake and subsequent aftershocks, which are still ongoing, destroyed countless homes, businesses and schools, flattened entire communities, and resulted in the deaths and injuries of tens of thousands. Critically, with monsoon season now underway, people in remote hilltop villages and mountainous areas remain extremely vulnerable. Many communities will face months of severe rain, flooding and potential landslides, and remote villages could become completely cut off. Tens of thousands of families whose homes were damaged or destroyed will need temporary shelter as well as financial support to help them get back into their homes. It is estimated that the earthquake and its aftershocks have killed more than 8,800 people and damaged or destroyed more than 850,000 homes, with some 2.8 million people still in need of humanitarian assistance. Schools, roads and health facilities have also been badly damaged or destroyed, many survivors have limited access to water and sanitation and an estimated 1 million people do not have sufficient food. Children face an unprecedented emotional toll as they deal with the devastating consequences and with 5,000 schools damaged or destroyed, more than 1 million are without classrooms.
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July 31, 2015 - Kathmandu, Nepal - People pray over butter lamps during the full moon processions at Bodhnath Stupa. On full moon nights thousands of Nepali and Tibetan Buddhists come to the stupa and participate in processions around the stupa. The stupa was heavily damaged in the earthquake and people are no longer allowed to climb on the stupa. They now walk around the base and pray with butter lamps.
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July 31, 2015 - Kathmandu, Nepal - A Tibetan Buddhist nun spins prayer wheels at Bodhnath Stupa. Bodhnath Stupa in the Bouda section of Kathmandu is one of the most revered and oldest Buddhist stupas in Nepal. The area has emerged as the center of the Tibetan refugee community in Kathmandu.
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July 31, 2015 - Kathmandu, Nepal - An overview of Kathmandu, Nepal as seen from Swayambhunath Stupa, a large Buddhist stupa in Kathmandu. Parts of the stupa were badly damaged in the Nepal earthquake of 2015 but it is still open for religious devotees and tourists.
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Aug. 3, 2015 - Kathmandu, Nepal - Hindu women make a pilgrimage and pray on the banks of the Bagmati River at Pashupatinath, a complex of important Hindu temples. The river bank is lined with cremation ghats. Many Hindus, from both Nepal and India, make pilgrimages to Pashupatinath.
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Aug. 2, 2015 - Bhaktapur, Central Region, Nepal - A woman digs up dirt for her temporary shelter in a small Internal Displaced Person (IDP) camp. The Nepal Earthquake on April 25, 2015 killed more than 9,000 people and injured more than 23,000. It had a magnitude of 7.8.
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Aug. 1, 2015 - Kathmandu, Nepal - A young boy washes his face with water from a public well in a community near Durbar Square. Many homes in the area don't have domestic water and people still go to wells for their water. The earthquake in April, 2015, badly damaged infrastructure, including the water system, in this part of town.
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Aug. 2, 2015 - Bhaktapur, Central Region, Nepal - A woman in Bhaktapur walks past a crew removing debris from the earthquake.
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Aug. 3, 2015 - Kathmandu, Nepal - A Hindu woman prays on the banks of the Bagmati River at Pashupatinath, a complex of important Hindu temples. The Bagmati River runs through the complex.
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July 31, 2015 - Kathmandu, Nepal - A laborer carries brick down the hill from Swayambhunath, also known as the Monkey Temple. It's a complex of Buddhist and Hindu temples in Kathmandu. It was heavily damaged in the Nepal Earthquake.
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July 31, 2015 - Kathmandu, Nepal - Workers recover bricks from Swayambhunath, also known as the Monkey Temple. It's a complex of Buddhist and Hindu temples in Kathmandu. It was heavily damaged in the Nepal Earthquake.
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July 31, 2015 - Kathmandu, Nepal - Workers recover bricks from Swayambhunath, also known as the Monkey Temple. Geophysicists and other experts had warned for decades that Nepal was vulnerable to a deadly earthquake, particularly because of its geology, urbanization, and architecture.
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Aug. 3, 2015 - Sankhu, Central Region, Nepal - A laborer hauls corrugated metal used as roofing to a work site where he will rebuild a home destroyed in the earthquake in Sankhu, a community about 90 minutes from central Kathmandu. The home was damaged in the earthquake and the owners hope to rebuild on the site but first half to take down what's left of the existing home.
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Aug. 1, 2015 - Kathmandu, Nepal - Durbar Square is the ancient capitol of Nepal and the center of the tourist industry. Durbar Square was badly damaged in the 2015 Nepal Earthquake but has been reopened to tourists.
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Aug. 5, 2015 - Kathmandu, Nepal - A girl plays with a home made ''Hula Hoop'' type toy in a large Internal Displaced Person (IDP) Camp in the center of Kathmandu. The camp is next to one the most expensive international hotels in Kathmandu. More than 7,100 people displaced by the Nepal earthquake in April live in 1,800 tents spread across the space of three football fields. There is no electricity in the camp.
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Aug. 5, 2015 - Kathmandu, Nepal - CHANDRA MAYA SUNAR, 57 years old, breathes through an oxygen mask in her tent in a large Internal Displaced Person (IDP) Camp in the center of Kathmandu. She came to Kathmandu with her family from Sindupalchok after the earthquake.
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Aug. 5, 2015 - Kathmandu, Nepal - The large Internal Displaced Person (IDP) Camp in the center of Kathmandu. The camp is next to one the most expensive international hotels in Kathmandu. More than 7,100 people displaced by the Nepal earthquake in April live in 1,800 tents spread across the space of three football fields.
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Aug. 5, 2015 - Kathmandu, Nepal - A woman makes lunch for her and her child in their tent in a large Internal Displaced Person (IDP) Camp in the center of Kathmandu.
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Aug. 4, 2015 - Bungamati, Central Region, Nepal - A boy walks past buildings covered in tarps that were damaged in the earthquake in Bungamati, a village about an hour from Kathmandu. Three months after the earthquake many families still live in tents and temporary shelters scattered around the village.
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Aug. 6, 2015 - Kathmandu, Nepal - Laborers recycle bricks from a house in Kathmandu that was destroyed in the Nepal Earthquake. The Nepal Earthquake killed more than 9,000 people and injured more than 23,000. It had a magnitude of 7.8.
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Aug. 2, 2015 - Bhaktapur, Nepal - A student at Sharada Higher Secondary School in Bhaktapur studies in a temporary classroom made out of woven mats before an exam. About half of the school was destroyed in the earthquake that struck in April 2015. The school is being rebuilt by the staff in their spare time.
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Aug. 6, 2015 - Kathmandu, Nepal - Men who sell cotton candy, inflatable toys and papaya wait for customers behind Durbar Square.
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Aug. 3, 2015 - Kathmandu, Nepal - A boy and girl study in a temporary school. Parts of her existing school were damaged in the earthquake and officials are afraid to use the existing structure, so they have set up a temporary school made of woven matting.
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Aug. 6, 2015 - Kathmandu, Nepal - A woman walks into the gate of Seto Machindranath Temple even through the wall around the temple collapsed in the Nepal Earthquake.
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Aug. 4, 2015 - Khokana, Nepal - A farmer walks up a dirt road. He had been working in his rice fields.
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