Nepalese students wait for their school bus in front of a collapsed house as thousands of schools across the districts hit hardest by two major earthquakes in Nepal reopened on May 31, 2015, in Kathmandu, Nepal. With most school buildings damaged or unsafe, the Education Ministry ordered that classes be held in temporary classrooms. According to a UNICEF statement, 32,000 classrooms were destroyed and 15,352 classrooms were damaged after the two major earthquakes in Nepal. #

Earthquake victims, carrying tin roofs to rebuild a house, walk along a track near fields at Barpak village at the epicenter of the April 25 earthquake in Gorkha district, Nepal, on May 21, 2015. #

Earthquake survivor Maya Gurung reaches to hold a young baby as she sits in a wheelchair in the grounds of a hospital in Banepal on the outskirts of Kathmandu on June 3, 2015. #

A damaged temple in Basantapur Durbar Square, photographed a day ahead of the International Conference on Nepal's Reconstruction on June 24, 2015 in Kathmandu, Nepal. #

Workers renovate heritage sites in Basantapur Durbar Square in Kathmandu, Nepal, on July 21, 2015. The sites were destroyed by twin earthquakes that struck the Himalayan nation in April and May 2015. #

A Nepalese barber attends to customers in his temporary shop set up in the remains of destroyed buildings in Chautara, some 40 kilometers northeast of Kathmandu, on June 30, 2015. #

Rabi Baral stands next to his tent, set up at a relief camp for earthquake survivors in Kathmandu, on July 23, 2015. The 7.8-magnitude quake on April 25 destroyed the 41-year-old’s home and left him without a job, forcing him and his young family to take refuge in a makeshift camp in Kathmandu. #

An Akshaya Patra Foundation worker prepares rice for Nepal earthquake victims at a kitchen in Bhaktapur on the outskirts of Kathmandu on June 26, 2015. For thousands of quake victims in the Kathmandu valley, the arrival of a white van outside their tents twice a day provides rare comfort, holding the promise of a hot meal. #

In this June 10, 2015 photo, 13-year-old earthquake survivor Bir Bahadur Tamang sits with a metal brace supporting his left shin while it heals in Trishuli District, about 80 kilometers northwest of Kathmandu, Nepal. The powerful earthquakes that shook Nepal in April and May took more than 8,800 lives, but they also injured more than 22,000 people who are now struggling to recover from broken bones, lost limbs and other injuries, uncertain if they will ever be able to return to the lives they once knew. #

Balloons dedicated to the memory of the people who died in the massive earthquake of April 25, 2015 are released into the sky at Basantapur Durbar Square in Kathmandu on June 27, 2015. #

Earthquake survivor Maya Gurung’s prosthetic leg is attended to in a hospital in Banepal on the outskirts of Kathmandu. Maya is among thousands of Nepalese who face a daunting future after suffering loss of limbs, spinal and other permanent injuries in the twin quakes that claimed more than 8,800 lives. #