The Gurung family has been living in a house with zinc roofing sheet for the last one week. The catastrophic earthquake of April 25 destroyed their house and they have built their makeshift house on their neighbor's land. However, it is unbearably hot inside their house during daytime due to heat emanated from zinc roofing-sheets. The family shared that they have go outside to find shade during the afternoon.The pain of all families, whose houses were destroyed in the quake, is the same. The quake victims seemed immensely happy when they got to stay inside houses with zinc roofing sheets after their houses collapsed in the earthquake. But these makeshift houses with zinc-roofing sheets in Mandre-2, Barpak remain vacant these days. With the rise in the mercury, the earthquake victims do not stay inside such houses during the daytime.
These families have kept their belongings inside the makeshift houses. Some of them have even kept firewood and livestock. Around 224 houses were destroyed in Barpak Mandre -2 and makeshift houses with zinc roofing sheets were built in that area.
The quake victims have started building houses with zinc roofing-sheets after the government provided them cash relief of Rs 15,000.
Due to the lack of knowledge in building such houses, many families are facing difficulties at the moment.
Local of Mandre Somani Pariyar told Republica, "The zinc roofing sheets become extremely hot during daytime. We can't stay inside even when it rains." She added that things have become difficult for her family of six after the quake.
Makeshift houses with zinc-roofing sheets in the rural areas, which were worst hit by the April 25 earthquake. Now people are disappointed as many of them built houses with zinc roofing sheets after they faced problems living under tarpaulins.
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