Funding secured for 750 homes, with 250 still unpaid for
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The organisation wrote most of its progress reports in English for donors in the United States. This one it wrote in Nepali, for the families it was reporting on.
५०० घर बनि सके, २५० अरु बन्दै छन्।
The full update said that donations sufficient for 750 transition homes had been collected, that five hundred of those were finished, that 250 were being built, and that funding was still being sought for a further 250 families.
Two weeks earlier, on 31 May, the organisation had put the completed figure at around 450 and said an additional 250 were being built, which would bring the total to about 700 within a month or two. The two statements do not quite line up. Both are reproduced here as they were made; construction counts in a village of scattered terraces, reported by field staff over an intermittent phone connection, move as the definition of finished moves.
The goal at that point was still stated as roughly a thousand homes, one for every displaced family in the VDC. The final verified figure was 800.
