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http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/features\/2015-nepal-dzi-foundation\/<\/a>

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Emergency earthquake relief is vital but short-lived. The Dzi Foundation brings Nepalis aid that lasts<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/div>\n
By Abe Streep | December 3, 2015 <\/span>Photographs by Adam Ferguson <\/span>From<\/span> Bloomberg<\/span><\/div>\n

The road loses form in the night. That\u2019s probably a good thing. It\u2019s not much of a road at this point, more a gully full of boulders and hail drifts perched on a cliff. The truck, a 1980-something Tata, bottoms out regularly. Occasionally it fishtails toward the edge and a drop-off of a few hundred feet into the blackness of eastern Nepal\u2019s Khotang district. \u201cHave you looked down?\u201d asks Ben Ayers, the Nepal director of the Dzi Foundation, a nonprofit development group focused on rural communities. The passengers in the car, myself included, too busy bracing ourselves for the next spine-jarring impact, ignore the question.<\/span><\/p>\n

We\u2019ve been driving for 14 hours. Our guru\u2014a term of respect for drivers in Nepal\u2014is a 20-year-old kid named Jeevan, who recently took over the wheel from his 17-year-old brother, whom Ayers hired after a guy with an impressive rattail ripped us off. \u201cMy brother doesn\u2019t know how to drive,\u201d Jeevan says, his earrings glinting. \u201cHe doesn\u2019t even have a license!\u201d<\/div>\n
read more on http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/features\/2015-nepal-dzi-foundation\/<\/a><\/div>\n
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http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/features\/2015-nepal-dzi-foundation\/ Emergency earthquake relief is vital but short-lived. The Dzi Foundation brings Nepalis aid that lasts. By Abe Streep | December 3, 2015 Photographs by Adam Ferguson From Bloomberg The road loses form in the night. That\u2019s probably a good thing. It\u2019s not much of a road at this point, more a gully full of boulders and hail drifts perched on a cliff. The truck, a 1980-something Tata, bottoms out regularly. Occasionally it fishtails toward the edge and a drop-off of a few hundred feet into the blackness of eastern Nepal\u2019s Khotang district. \u201cHave you looked down?\u201d asks Ben Ayers, the Nepal director of the Dzi Foundation, a nonprofit development group focused on rural communities. The passengers in the car, myself included, too busy bracing ourselves for the next spine-jarring impact, ignore the question. We\u2019ve been driving for 14 hours. Our guru\u2014a term of respect for drivers in Nepal\u2014is a 20-year-old kid named Jeevan, who recently took over the wheel from his 17-year-old brother, whom Ayers hired after a guy with an impressive rattail ripped us off. \u201cMy brother doesn\u2019t know how to drive,\u201d Jeevan says, his earrings glinting. \u201cHe doesn\u2019t even have a license!\u201d read more on http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/features\/2015-nepal-dzi-foundation\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jfmeyer.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jfmeyer.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jfmeyer.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jfmeyer.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jfmeyer.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jfmeyer.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jfmeyer.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jfmeyer.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jfmeyer.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jfmeyer.be\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}