Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
Learning From Earthquakes

Some schools attempting to charge parents for quake repairs

February 8, 2018

Virtual Earthquake Reconnaissance Team (VERT) Summary by Tracy Becker and Laura Whitehurst.

 

Several schools have been caught and reprimanded for attempting to get money from parents for repairing quake-damaged schools.

Some notes on this article: 100 Nepali rupees = 1 US dollar; Nepal uses its own calendar with different months than the Gregorian calendar (Baisakh = mid-April-mid-May, Jeth = mid-May-mid-June).

http://www.myrepublica.com/society/item/23230-schools-cornering-parents-for-quake-repair-funds.html

 

Curated topics from the April 25, 2015, Nepal Earthquake to help inform reconnaissance activities, identify impacted regions, and help document the timeline of earthquake response/recovery.

Information on school buildings, especially those retrofitted or involved in mitigation programs pre-quake, from the April 25, 2015, Nepal Earthquake.