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A week after the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Nepal, the full of the disaster is still coming to . The United Nations has called for further support to aid the attempts. Only $53 million of the $415 million promised by has been given. The Kathmandu is struggling to deal with the sheer of the destruction, while whole towns along the of the Kathmandu Valley have been flattened. Hundreds of thousands of homes across the Himalayan nation have been damaged or destroyed, leaving more than three million people sheltering under blue and in need of food and medicine.

Nepal’s Prime Minister, Sushil Koirala, has admitted that his government is by the scale of the disaster and is ill- to cope. He requested helicopters to help with the of aid. However, the logistics of this are being hampered by the country's terrain, which often makes it difficult for anything to be delivered by . Many of the roads have been swept away by and landslides. Further exacerbating the problem is the fact that Kathmandu's international has only one runway, which has hindered the of much-needed supplies. The U.N. World Food Program warned that it would take for aid to reach more communities.

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