Perseverance and community Bhaktapur, July 4

A group of men pull on a rope attached to the roof of a damaged home in order to demolish it. “That photo for me shows endurance,” Havana said. “Everyone working together . . . building after building.” With monsoon rains due any day, residents “didn’t wait for authorities” to take action, risking their lives as they razed structures. “The beginning of the rebuilding of the country is to destroy what is damaged already, no?”