Lower Thirds:

4:20	Report by Shalu Yadav & Sharique Ahmad
0:02	Mohammad Aslam
1:30	Shalu Yadav | DW Correspondent | Devighat, Nepal
1:57	Samiulla Miya
3:50	Toti Tamang

((info: How do you rebuild your life after losing everything you own? DW visited the victims of the catastrophic floods in Nepal last month to find out how they’re coming to terms with their loss. The floodskilled over 1400 people and left thousands missing. The Nepalese government told DW that it was caused by climate change, and that the country will seek climate justice from other countries responsible for greenhouse gas emissions. Mohammad Aslam, a resident of Nuwakot district shared the pain of bidding farewell to his home.))  

Script: 
OPENING SOT -   
Mohd Aslam
‘We are alive, my children are safe. And we are grateful for that but...’(breaks down) 
VO: Mohammad Aslam can barely hold himself together as he recounts his struggle to build his dream home. It’s one of the hundreds of homes swept away by the catastrophic floods last month. 

0:27-1:00
SOT Mohd Aslam - ‘I worked very hard to build this home. I worked abroad for 22 years for my family and my children’s future. We used to live in a rental. But we bought this piece of land and built a house for my family’s happiness and exactly how we wanted it to be. But it took less than a minute for this happiness to be washed away. Even as we leave this place to move elsewhere, we will never forget what happened on that fateful day. " 
1:01-1:05 - ATMO WITH FAST CUTS
1:06
VO – It's the same story for every single home here. There’s silence inside them, but the walls and windows bear testimony to the wrath of the floods that took over 1,400 lives. Thousands are still missing or feared buried under the mass of slush that the flood brought.   
1:24
PTC on drone: Shalu Yadav, DW Senior Correspondent - ‘Devighat looks like a ghost town now. Of more than 300 homes that flanked the river of Trishuli, we only see a few dozens that remain. But they’re uninhabitable. It’s nearly impossible to rebuild these homes.’ 
1:40
VO – Aslam tries to retrieve what he can from the mud before he bids farewell to his home. 
1:46-1:55
SOT – I’m looking for my documents like passport, license, my Qatar ID. I need them to get back to Qatar and resume my job. But I cannot go without my passport. 

1:55
In the next room, his brother Samiulla Miya shows us the belongings of his son that he found after four days of trying to clear the mountains of mud inside.

2:03-2:28  
SOT Samiulla Miya, Resident: 1240 ‘It was my son’s wish that I try and find his favourite things like his perfume, his laptop etc. So i am trying to clear the mud in the room to find them. Look I've found his laptop in this state (covered in mud). It cant be rescued. Look, i also found his laptop speaker. He used to play guitar as well (moves and picks it up to show the camera). I can barely lift it. It’s heavy with mud.’
TRANSITION SHOT 
2:28
PTC - Shalu Yadav, DW Senior Correspondent -  Such is the story of thousands of Nepalis as they try to pick up the pieces of their lives. They’re coming to terms with making tough choices every single day since the disaster struck. And yet the one thing they cannot choose is living in their own homes. 

VO: Still, most Nepalis we met here showed great stoicism.  

2:50-3:09
SOT Mohd Aslam, Resident -  
What is gone is gone. It will not come back. So we will work hard again and pray to God. It’s our hard work only that brought us this far in life. 
3:09
VO: And – despite everything, Aslam says there’s a lesson to be learnt from this tragedy.  

3:15-3:27
SOT Mohd Aslam, Resident - People boast about their cars and bungalows. They should not be arrogant about it all. If you have the means, use it to help others. What is the point of all that arrogance, when it can be taken away in a moment! 
Visuals of victims (women and children in a relief shelter) 

3:32
VO: Some may have the option to rebuild their lives, but not everyone here is as lucky. At this temporary relief shelter, we met 43-year-old Toti Tamang who survived with her two  children,  but lost over a dozen family members in the deadly flood.  
3:49-4:07
SOT Toti Tamang 
‘It is very difficult situation for me. Where do I take these kids, and how do I raise them? At a time like this, I don't even have my own land. If I had land, I could at least build a small tin-roof hut to live in. I don't have the money to buy land. We are constantly worrying about where to stay.’ 
 
Visuals of children getting aid at the shelter 
 
4:07
VO: Even as aid is coming in to help the survivors here, the Nepalese government has made it clear that relief alone will not be enough. The country is asking for climate justice and has requested 20 million USD in reparations from the UN Loss and Damage fund.