EARTHQUAKE ONE YEAR ON MUNAZAR'S STORY

Munazar's husband was working for a construction company building a road when the earthquake struck. He died instantly. Back at home in Nabla village in the Uri district of Kashmir, thirty-five year-old Munazar saw their home completely destroyed. The surrounding land where she once cultivated maize was left with huge cracks.

She now lives in her sister’s house sharing one room with her teenage daughter and son.

“I received compensation for my husband’s death and to rebuild our home but we don’t have land to build on," she says.

"The ground is so cracked that we cannot irrigate so we have no crops this year and our compensation money is slowly getting eaten up.

"ActionAid has helped me to set up a shop selling soap, salt, matches and other groceries so at least we now we have some income of our own.

"We could move elsewhere but in a town or city there would be more expenses. My son and daughter would look at other children’s clothes and ask me for similar. How could I provide? Better we stay here where our living expenses are less.”