As much as it is hard to ignore, and I feel terrible saying this but let’s not talk about what’s currently happening at the moment in Nepal, at least for few minutes. Relief efforts are underway; rescue teams are working unimpeded, money has been flowing in, awareness is at its peak, people who are rescued are being taken care of, and hopefully in a month or so we will possibly rescue everyone. Yes, there will be episodes of corruption, fraud and exploitations, but eventually we will evolve out of this crisis and move on.

So let’s talk about the aftermath, as what could be the next step after the dust has settled and normalcy sinks in. The families who lost everything in dolakha, gorkha, gongabu, bhaktapur etc. will have to grab their lives by the scruffs of its neck and start all over again, and the chances of them bouncing back will take ages. So, as much as I hate to mention, but there will be several hundred families who will have to live their life in acute penury moving forward unless they have enough assets, steady investments and substantial bank balance. It isn’t like lawsuits will be filed or government would hand out enough subsidies. They will have kids who have been going to private schools, some want to even travel to America to study, some might have had plans to marry of their daughters; some might even plan for an early retirement and so forth. And once a home is lost, every other source of income doesn’t seem enough.

So how can they keep their dreams alive? Becoming an asylee to United States could be one of the solutions, provided they are granted asylum. But then again, how can the victims are distinguished from the ones who are not? Also, how can one victim who lost everything could be distinguished than one who didn’t lose much?