It is just over two months since the first earthquake hit Nepal, which killed almost 9,000 people and demolished more than 500,000 homes.
Thousands of aid workers descended on the poor, landlocked country before yet another earthquake hit and shook the Nepalese again to the bone. Experts, wary that survivors would be traumatized, warned of an impending mental health disaster if people’s needs were not met.
Despite this, few nongovernmental organizations actually address the mental toll of disasters — mental health is seen more difficult to treat than physical wounds and not sexy enough to receive the funding it deserves.