As Nepal’s monsoon season draws closer, aid groups on the ground are faced with a ticking clock, and not a lot of alternatives.
The ubiquitous plastic tarps doled out by aid groups and meant to serve as makeshift shelters won’t withstand monsoon winds, Relief International’s Global Humanitarian Director Alex Gray told Devex, and Nepalese can’t use traditional construction materials — mud, thatch and stone — out of fear of a third installment of last month’s deadly earthquakes.
Now the only option for homeless Nepalese is to build shelters out of corrugated iron sheets, which are hard to come by and growing more expensive.
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Molly Anders is a former U.K. correspondent for Devex. Based in London, she reports on development finance trends with a focus on British and European institutions. She is especially interested in evidence-based development and women’s economic empowerment, as well as innovative financing for the protection of migrants and refugees. Molly is a former Fulbright Scholar and studied Arabic in Syria, Jordan, Egypt and Morocco.