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Left: A whiteboard hangs from a cracked wall at the Shree Krishna Ratna Ganga higher secondary school. 1,200 students attend the school six days a week, with Saturday being the only day of the week they don't attend. The earthquake struck on Saturday at midday.<br />
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Right: Ravi (11) and his sister Pabritra (10) (names have been changed) live with their mother and father in a temporary shelter in Chautara - a village badly affected by the Nepal earthquake on April 25th - sleeping along with hundreds of other people in tents on the playing field in the centre of the village. Their mother works as a nurse at the field hospital that has also been set up on the playing field, as the nearby district hospital is damaged beyond repair. Oxfam has set up a 10,000 litre bladder tank which is providing clean water to both the hospital and people staying on the field, as well as six pit latrines / toilets. Ravi and Pabrita attended the village school - the Shree Krishna Ratna Ganga higher secondary school. <br />
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Ravi: 'I feel very sad seeing the school, before it was beautiful but now it looks bad. I would be in school today but we don't know what will happen with our studying. My favourite subject is social sciences and I also like playing with my friends. I want to go back to school and when I leave, to go into the army.'<br />
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Pabrita: 'I don't like seeing our school destroyed. I want to go back as soon as possible, but we don't know what will happen. We have study books at home that I can read, but I want to go back. My favourite subject is also social sciences and when I leave school I want to be a teacher'.