Human Solidarity

Nepal is one of the poorest nations in Asia and it struggles to feed and educate its children in the best of its times. A decade long civil war between government forces and Maoist rebels left in its wake and unstable political system. Nepal's challenges are many and the magnitude 7.8 tremor that hit Nepal three months ago brought a new suffering for the Nepalese.  People are trying to pick up the pieces and get on with their lives despite the challenges, which definitely is very tough. The country remains perilously unstable with the risk of landslides from ongoing aftershocks, forcing thousands to leave their homes and camp out in open fields when in the seasonal monsoon rain and now when the winter has started they are bearing the cold without enough clothes on their bodies. It is estimated that Nepal's government estimates reconstruction costs a third of the country's GDP, but with so many barriers, it could take years to rebuild the country. Alongside, there is also the threat of possible spread of disease The children have started playing, but many fear still going to school in the most hit areas. Many of them show signs of skin diseases, coughs and fevers.

Living a life in this crisis has been a mixture of fear and hope. There is a constant fear that anything may happen at any time. Even a small jolt shakes our whole emotion now. But at the same time, there were several good people and organizations that helped us to overcome our grief, which gives some rays of hope. It gives a faith on humanity.

Just as Mahatma Gandhi says, "You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty." The crisis that occurred after the earthquake made me realize this fact that it is because of the humanity we are surviving. If so many people and different national and international organizations hadn't helped us to rise, we wouldn't have become able to even hope for our survival and dreaming of rebuilding would be a hard dream. Even when so many corruption and in humanitarian acts is going around all over the world, there is something that we can lean on that is the faith in humanity.

Thus, this human solidarity has a great significance in all our lives. We must help each other to live like a human and enlighten the world with the brightness of education.

Written by

Bhawana Shrestha

Nepal