Members of 67 households in the village have been working to build an irrigation pond since the last week.
One of the volunteers, Krishna Bahadur Bogati, 58, has been working as enthusiastically as any youth. "We'll promote greenery in the hills after building the irrigation pond," he said. According to him, locals will involve in planting seasonable vegetables so that they can generate income for themselves.
Earlier, the water from the tap and other sources used to get wasted and the hills remained uncultivated. But the villagers have now started to collect water in the pond for irrigational purpose.
Before they started to build the pond, locals had already completed a road construction, for which a member from each of the households contributed free labor. Although the road constructed by the locals connected the village with the major road network, recent earthquake damaged it. They have finally repaired it along with arranging a canal alongside.
The locals in the village began working together for development works since the last two months.
Prem Bahadur Lama is an earthquake victim. But he does not have time to wallow in his own trouble. Soon after he wakes up in the morning, he goes to work at the site of the pond.
"Following the earthquake, many drinking water sources dried. We worked round the clock to get the supply of drinking water restarted from a source one kilometer from our village," Lama said.
Sindhupalchowk was worst-hit by the April earthquake and the aftershocks.
More than 90 percent of the houses in Sindhupalchowk were destroyed by the earthquake, according to figures compiled by the government and aid agencies. Around 200,000 affected have been living under temporary shelters since the last eight months following the disaster.
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