More than 500 Nepali children left parentless by August 26 floods face uncertain futures

More than 500 Nepali children are in temporary shelters across flood-hit districts after the August 26 floods, their parents missing or dead. Nine-year-old Ram Thakur, in a Nuwakot school with 26 others, fled uphill as his mother urged him on before she was lost. Relatives must apply to district courts for judicial death declarations during disasters; otherwise missing persons cannot be declared dead for 12 years under Nepali law.