00:11Muhammad Aslam can barely hold himself together as he recounts his struggle to build his dream home.
00:21It's one of the hundreds of homes swept away by the catastrophic floods last month.
00:30I've been living in my village for two years.
00:33This is for my family and this is for my family.
00:36We were living in the rent.
00:39After getting married, we started to build it.
00:42Then we started to build it.
00:45We made our own style.
00:46We took the whole life.
00:48We took the whole place to build it.
00:50We used to live here in another place.
00:53We used to know that there was a place to live.
01:04It's the same story for every single home here.
01:08There's silence inside them.
01:10But the walls and windows bear testimony to the wrath of the floods that took over 1,400 lives.
01:17Thousands are still missing or feared buried under the mass of slush that the flood brought.
01:24Devighat looks like a ghost town.
01:26Of the over 300 homes that used to flank the river of Trishuli, just over a few dozens remain now.
01:33But they're uninhabitable.
01:35It's nearly impossible to reconstruct these homes.
01:39Aslam tries to retrieve what he can from the mud before he bids farewell to his home.
01:45I have my documents in the village.
01:47I have my passport.
01:49I have my passport.
01:50I have my passport.
01:50I have my license.
01:51I have my license.
01:53In the next room, his brother Samuel Lamia shows us the belongings of his son that he found after four
02:00days of trying to clear the mud inside.
02:30I have my passport.
02:31Nepalese as they try to pick up the pieces of their lives they're coming to
02:35terms with making very tough choices every single day since the disaster
02:39struck and yet the one thing they cannot choose is living in their own homes
02:44still most Nepalese we met here showed great stoicism
02:49I'll be doing a lot of the other stuff that was a lot of the other and despite
03:09everything Islam says there's a lesson to be learned from this tragedy
03:30Some may have the option to rebuild their lives, but not everyone here is as lucky.
03:36At this temporary relief shelter, we met 43-year-old Toti Thamang, who survived with her two children
03:43but lost over a dozen family members in the deadly flood.
04:06Even as aid is coming in to help the survivors here, the Nepalese government has made it clear
04:12that relief alone will not be enough.
04:15The country is asking for climate justice and has requested US$20 million in reparations
04:21from the UN Loss and Damage Fund.
