The main quake (M7.8) on April 25th and the afterquake on May 12th (M7.3) hit central Nepal and caused death to more than 9000 people.
 
Following the field research in May, BHN offered recovery assistance to nine community FM radio stations in Sindhupalchowk and five other districts from June.
 
It was initially planned to be completed by October, however, we had to suspend the project due to political disturbance in Nepal that brought scarcity of gasoline and necessary goods.
 
Finding necessary resources and equipment in the free market, we resumed construction of radio station buildings in December in cooperation with the local partner, Asia-pacific office of AMARC (The World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters.) We handed over repaired and/or rebuilt studios and radio station buildings as well as delivered broadcasting equipment on December 25th, so that we could finally complete the project with two months’ delay.
 

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Furthermore, we have begun the second phase of the project, spanning 100 days from February 18th to May 24th. Eight target radio stations are located in five districts near the epicenter, which were not accessible last year. We will support studio repair works and deliver equipment as we did in the first phase.