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Nepal earthquake: New home for Kul, 101, thanks to Midland kindness

A 101-year-old and his 95-year-old wife have received a new home in Nepal thanks to a small activity centre with a big heart.

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Live the Adventure, in Stottesdon near Bridgnorth, pledged to raise £25,000 and rebuild a number of homes after the devastating earthquake earlier this year.

Now, the first of these homes, belonging to Kul Bahadur and his wife, has been rebuilt.

Live The Adventure founder and instructor, Ant Eddies-Davies went out to Nepal earlier this year to begin the start of the rebuild.

The new houses are known as 'earth bag homes' and are made out of rice bags filled with soil.

Mr Eddies-Davies said: "Every person I met has been affected in some way or another, either through loss of home and work, or worse still, injury or losing a loved one. The scale of devastation is immense."

He added:"This technique provides a home as good as anything they have had before."

A 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Nepal on April 25, killing thousands and demolishing more than half a million homes, most of them in rural areas cut off from emergency medical care.

A second major quake then struck 76 kilometers (47 miles) east of the capital Kathmandu, just as Nepalis were beginning to recover from the previous earthquake. The death toll from the two quakes now stands at 8,583.

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