Knock-kneed children drag scavenged sleeping mats into tarpaulin tents. Grandmothers clear rocks from demolition sites once called homes. And prodigal sons who rushed home to comfort their mothers are building new structures to shelter them from the rain. Days after the magnitude-7.8 earthquake hit Nepal, in the central Gorkha district, people in many villages along the roads have stopped waiting for the government to bring help. Their needs are vast, but Nepal is so short on relief supplies and the means to distribute them that officials are focusing on the farthest flung reaches of the remote Himalayas.
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