nepal: 3 months after earthquakes

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Three months have now passed since massive twin earthquakes struck Nepal, killing more than 8,800 people, injuring more than 22,000, flattening nearly 600,000 homes, and leaving millions still in need of food, clean water and adequate shelter.

Though residents are working to return to their normal lives, Nepal is still reeling from the disasters in April and May. The World Bank announced in June that it will provide up to 500 million dollars for reconstruction.

Today, months after the quakes, nearly 3 million survivors, many in mountainous, hard-to-reach areas, still need urgent help, according to a U.N. report published earlier this month. Collected here are images of Nepal’s slow work toward recovery..

Nepalese students wait for their school bus in front of a collapsed house as thousands of schools across the districts hit hardest by two major earthquakes in Nepal reopened on May 31, 2015, in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Earthquake survivor Maya Gurung reaches to hold a young baby as she sits in a wheelchair on the outskirts of Kathmandu on June 3, 2015.

A remaining window of a collapsed house is pictured after an earthquake at Barpak village, Nepal, on May 21, 2015.

A damaged temple in Basantapur Durbar Square, photographed a day ahead of the International Conference on Nepal's Reconstruction on June 24, 2015 in Kathmandu, Nepal.

A woman walks past the debris of a collapsed house as she leaves a temple, months after two deadly earthquakes in Kathmandu, Nepal, on July 28, 2015.

Workers renovate heritage sites in Basantapur Durbar Square in Kathmandu, Nepal, on July 21, 2015.

A Nepalese barber attends to customers in his temporary shop set up in the remains of destroyed buildings in Chautara, on June 30, 2015.

An earthquake victim sits with her baby girl, who was born nine days ago, inside their makeshift shelter in Kathmandu on July 8, 2015.

Nepalese army personnel relocate a temporary shelter at a relief camp for earthquake survivors in Kathmandu on July 23, 2015.

Rabi Baral stands next to his tent, set up at a relief camp for earthquake survivors in Kathmandu, on July 23, 2015.

An Akshaya Patra Foundation worker prepares rice for Nepal earthquake victims at a kitchen in Bhaktapur on the outskirts of Kathmandu on June 26.

A Nepalese child carries a carrom board from his damaged house in Bhaktapur, Nepal, on, May 14, 2015.

In this June 10, 2015 photo, 13-year-old earthquake survivor Bir Bahadur Tamang sits with a metal brace supporting his left shin while it heals in Trishuli District, about 80 kilometers northwest of Kathmandu, Nepal.

A woman offers daily prayers at the statue of Lord Buddha that was damaged during the earthquake in Bhaktapur on July 14, 2015.

Balloons dedicated to the memory of the people who died in the massive earthquake of April 25, 2015 are released into the sky at Basantapur Durbar Square in Kathmandu on June 27, 2015.

Workers renovate heritage sites in Basantapur Durbar Square in Kathmandu on July 21, 2015.

An elderly Nepalese pedestrian walks past the remains of destroyed buildings in Chautara, Nepal, on June 30, 2015.

Migmar Lama, an earthquake victim with a broken leg, walks out of a makeshift tent in Kathmandu on July 8, 2015.

A Nepalese woman fills drinking water from a well in front of damaged houses in Kathmandu on May 25, 2015.

Nepalese students walk past a makeshift school in Durbar Square in Kathmandu on July 22, 2015.

A boy throws debris while manually demolishing collapsed houses in Bhaktapur, Nepal, on June 5, 2015.

A Nepalese man walks through a path cleared through the rubble of damaged houses in Kathmandu on May 25, 2015.

An excavator attempts to demolish the remains of collapsed houses in Kathmandu on May 29, 2015.

A Nepalese worker carries parts of a damaged monastery to a safer place at the Swayambhunath Stupa in Kathmandu on June 18, 2015.

Earthquake survivor Maya Gurung’s prosthetic leg is attended to in a hospital in Banepal on the outskirts of Kathmandu.