Whenever I’m losing hope, I think about getting to finally hug my family again and feel the sun on my skin this summer. It is awful to be going through this but it will be our story to tell our children and grandchildren in years to come. Hopefully it will help to inform and shape future big decisions in politics and our community, taking the positives forward and making change for the better. Anon, 2021 Don’t stay in silence by yourself, people are available to help you. It can be a phone call or a wave. Anon, 2021 Online survey, 2020/ 2021 GAJA BAHADUR GURUNG “For twomonths it was completely inside and the rest of the last ten days or something like that was spent on listening to BFBS radio and I had a book on world war. I went through that book also. We had a TV but that TV broke down so there wasn’t anything for entertainment so it was not a good time.” TOP BAHADUR KAMI “This was a very difficult time because we couldn’t go to the bank also there was nomoney, but then thankful the grocery people [owner of local Nepali grocery shops] lent us, borrowed us, those food items for some times and we paid them later… These were the people who did good job for us. They were really like angels.” OM BAHADUR DAMAI “I fell down. People thought that I was suffering from covid. Nobody came. My wife helpedme out, but she also doesn’t know anything, but what she did was that she soaked the towel or the hanky and squeezed it up, and she just rubbed it roundmy face, asked help the others [she telephoned them], and during that time my villagers came and they rang the hospital, got an ambulance, tookme to the hospital, that I was suffering fromhigh blood pressure. I was given medicine. I belong to Syangja village in Nepal and people from there helpedme out.” नेपाली भिडिय अन्तर्ववार मार् २०२२ Nepali Video Interviews, March 2022
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