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Nepal: After winter, a ray of hope for quake survivors

Ten months after the earthquake, are things finally about to improve for survivors living on the ruins of former homes?

Saif Khalid

Kathmandu, Nepal - Shanti Maya Tamang stood in front of her tent in Chuchepati, an area of the capital, Kathmandu, with the winter sun shining down upon her.

The warmth came as a welcome relief to the 35-year-old after the heavy rains and bitter cold of winter in the camp for those displaced by the devastating quake that shook the Himalayan nation last April.

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