With support from Sign of Hope, Lumanti is supporting 250families in the Village in reconstruction. In addition to this, Lumanti is working in collaboration VDC for construction of community centre which can be used as evacuation centre in case of future disaster. The reconstruction work with grant assistant and technical support is now on going in full pledged way in all wards in collaboration with the local community committee and participation of the families. Since the inception of the reconstruction program in Dalchowki, 38 masons from Dalchokie were trained and engaged in construction. Till now, 124 houses have completed whereas 126 houses are on-going under construction.
Initially, Lumanti has initiated meetings with communities and user committees in all the wards so that the construction could be done simultaneously in all areas. The ward citizen forums and the key community leaders were the ones who attended the meetings. The objective of those meetings was for sharing the progress of the work in their wards and discuss about the challenges and also about possibilities of way forward.
Dlachowki is one of the remote villages in Kathmandu Valley located south of the Lalitpur district sharing its boundary with Lele and Tikabhairav. During the April Earthquake, the village was heavily destroyed. Fortunately, no one died in the village. Out of 347 houses in the VDC, 345 were assessed by the Post Disaster Need Assessment Team (PDNA) as completely damaged. Houses, constructed in traditional ways of stone and timber, without steel or seismic reinforcing, were the worst hit by the quake in Dalchokie.
