CRI听力:Kathmandu's Quake Survivors Struggle to Live after the Disaster

Reporter:

Since the earthquake, many migrants in Kathmandu have been returning home to see their families and to check on the damage in their hometowns.

The government has been encouraging people to leave the quake-hit city by offering them free bus tickets.

However, one resident who is leaving the city says there aren't enough tickets to go around.

"No seat and so many passengers, too many people want to leave. They have no shelter, no food and its very difficult to live in Kathmandu now."

While some are choosing to leave, others who are remaining in the capital are still struggling to carry on with their lives.

Some survivors say they feel overwhelmed by the calamity that has befallen them and their prospects for the future.

"There's inadequate management of food and water. I kept wondering if I would be able to survive or not. I'm worried about how and where I will live from now on, where I will shelter my family, how I will carry on with my daily chores, how I will manage my life. All these small things are constantly giving me tension."

A group of healers and psychologists are counseling the anxious quake survivors to help them overcome the trauma of last week's earthquake.

The Hug and Heal Group is offering survivors psychological counseling, psycho-social intervention and Akasha healing to help them move on with their lives.

The head of the group Indra Gurung says the healing approach helps to spread positive energy.

"With the recent earthquake, people they are suffering from fear, some kind of anxiety, some kind of trauma that they have gone through while in the earthquake so they fear to go back home. So they have got the food and water and some shelter temporary but we need to give them courage, the spirit to stand up and move on in the life."

The group of volunteers operates in a tent in central Kathmandu, where around 2500 people are still seeking shelter.

Thousands of people are still missing in Nepal a week after the earthquake hit, as food and help began to trickle through to those stranded in remote areas.

The United Nations estimates that at least 2 million people still need tents, food and medicines over the next three months.

For CRI, this is Luo Wen.