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This Tuesday, we're starting with an update from earthquake-stricken Nepal. 

 

The National Emergency Operation Center says the April 25th quake and the aftershocks that followed killed more than 7,200 people, almost twice that many were injured. A week after the quake, there was a remarkable¹ rescue, a 101-year-old man who'd been trapped under the rubble² of his home. Officials say he's in stable condition. They don't know how he survived.

 

The country's finance minister says the 7.8 magnitude quake either partially³ or completed destroyed almost 300,000 homes. Some are in remote villages that aid worker are still unable to reach. A CNN drone flew over some of these areas. The destruction it found in places was catastrophic. It's why officials expect the death toll⁴ to go up significantly.  

 

Nepalese leaders are calling for more international aid, especially funding to help the Nepalese people recover. 

 

Class is back in session at Kopila Valley Children's Home and School. It was started by CNN Hero Maggie Doyne, whom we told you about before the quake. She and the students are all OK, but other CNN heroes are struggling with the quake's destruction. 

 

Both Nepalese winning CNN's top prize for their charity work, both now emotionally crushed by the earthquake that devastated⁵ the country.

 

We have to do, we have to take out all the stones, everything, again back. So, we have to start again from the down.

 

Four of our houses in the districts have absolutely, is is, absolutely gone.

 

Koirala runs a rehabilitation⁶ center for more than 400 women and children, mostly victims of human trafficking and sexual violence. 

 

Today, she's also taking on these 11 orphans⁷, because their shelter was damaged by the earthquake.

 

Basnet runs a home for children and incarcerated⁸ parents.

 

It's a bit of a setback⁹ from this earthquake.

 

Yes, it has setback, but I think, not just in my life, but everyone's life. But someday, I think things will work out.

 

She bought this property with the money she won from CNN Heroes. The home where she and her 45 children have lived for years is now uninhabitable.

 

This is where the children had been camping out since the earthquake hit, because butterfly home has been deemed unsafe and right now, they just don't know when they'll be able to move back.

 

A guava tree for shade, a patch of grass, their temporary home. I asked them what the earthquake felt like.

 

"It shook us like this, like I was in the swing," he says. "I thought I would die", he says.

 

Even though they laugh about it now, the elders and the children, Laxmi says they were terrified.

 

They were scared at that time when it...

 

The mental trauma¹⁰ will linger. It will take time to restore their livelihoods¹¹. But with heroes like Basnet and Koirala as their caretakers, determined¹² to overcome the setback and soon, they know they are the lucky ones.

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