Everyone has heard, I hope, of the earthquake in Nepal at around 8 on the scale of Richter (which is really quite high). Many many people became homeless and several thousands were killed or went missing. Especially remote mountaneous areas are badly hit: they have to cope with bad weather, aftershocks, completely vanished infrastructure, landslides and little to no access to hospitals and food supplies. Their shelters have been damaged and so they are affected on all fronts.