In the remote village of Philim, close to the quake's epicentre in western Nepal, the disaster reduced the school's dormitory to rubble, forcing some 200 children to take refuge in tents. Many of the children live hours from Philim but are staying in the tents because they can no longer commute from their homes after quake-triggered landslides blocked hillside trails. After the April 25 quake struck the impoverished country, Nepal's shell-shocked government implored foreign donors to fund recovery efforts and vowed swift reconstruction.
