Eight months after a devastating earthquake hit Nepal, its government has finally opened the way for the reconstruction agency to spend $4.1 billion pledged by foreign donors to help the massive number of people rendered homeless.
Two earthquakes in April and May killed 9,000 people, injured more than 22,000 and damaged or destroyed nearly 900,000 houses, forcing many to live in shelters built with tarps and iron sheets, even in freezing temperatures.
It took until September for Nepal to create the National Reconstruction Agency (NRA).