While in Nepal working on my personal project The Business Of Everest I was contacted by the BBC to go and shoot stills for a TV show they were filming out there, called Our Girl. The production company was filming in a village in the Dolakha region of Nepal, which was very badly hit by the 2015 Earthquake. 

On a day off from filming I hired a local interpreter and went down into the village to meet and take portraits of some of the locals, and hear their stories.

Laxmi Kusuley was in her house in Nepal with her three children (one of whom, a seven year old boy, is profoundly disabled) when the 2015 earthquake hit. She tried her best to protect herself and her children as the house collapsed around them, and miraculously none of them were hurt, but the house and all their possessions were destroyed and they now live in a temporary, corrugated tin house.

Krishna Kumari Shrestha, pictured at the base of the local Stupa near to her house. She said that as this had survived the 2015 Nepal earthquake unscathed she would run here if there was another quake. 
With the possibility of more devastating quakes very real, and with only 50,000R ($500) from the government to build a new house, it's difficult for people to move forward, and do anything but build a temporary corrugated tin house to live in for the time being.

Kali Pradhan, who can't remember how old she is but her neighbours think at least 80, lives with her partially paralysed son Laxman, the only one of her 9 children to remain at home, in the Dolakha region of Nepal, which was devastated by an earthquake in 2015. 
Their large house was completely destroyed and they now live in a much smaller tin sheet house, quickly built after the quake.

Krishna Bhadhaur Shrestha is in his 80's, and is originally from the Gagarlunga area of Dolakha, before he moved to Nasu, where the 2015 earthquake destroyed the roof and top section of his house. He rebuilt it with a new tin roof, and when I met him was resting in the shade, in the doorway of an old goat house next to his home.

81 year old widower Chitra Bhadahur Shivabakti's small house was destroyed in the 2015 Nepal quake, and he now lives in a tiny, roughly built shack of tin sheets and tarps (just visible on the right hand side of the image). He said that his son and daughter in law bring food for him, he is just subsisting.
My translator for this day's shooting in the Nasu area of the Dolakha region of Nepal said that he didn't expect this village to be rebuilt, as the people still living there were primarily the old, the sick and the poor, people with no way of going anywhere else. The young had mainly moved elsewhere, to Kathmandu or abroad, rather than face the overwhelming task of rebuilding their devastated homes and land.