Reviving Lifeline Trails

Although foot trails and drainages received less priority in the national and provincial planning of the country, foot trails are the lifeline of remote parts of Gorkha district.  The foot trails connect one village to the other and increase speed and load capacity of mule and human. After the earthquake of 2015, almost all foot trails, small irrigation, wooden bridges, roads, community schools and water taps of Laprak, Gumda, Kashigaun, Uhiya and Sirdibas either destroyed or washed away. For villagers, the destruction of these basic infrastructures was more devastating than their own shelter. As a result villages were cut off from one another. That was where the Protracted Relief Recovery Operation (PRRO) project approached to completely change the faces of remote and rural parts of earthquake affected villages of northern Gorkha.