FAC Team Working Group

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The mission of the FAC Team working group is to design the FAC Team program within the National Sustainable Security Infrastructure and its U.S. Resilience System.

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Shaking Up the Status Quo in Nepal

Tue, 2015-06-02 11:28 — SmShako

By BLAIR GLENCORSE and SUJEEV SHAKYA JUNE 1, 2015

Hand image - Status Quo Nepal, NYT

“Ke garne?” an old lady said to us, tears pouring down her cheeks, as we visited her earthquake-battered village in the Dhading district of Nepal last month: “What to do?” With a history of repeated crises — political, economic and natural — it has become the Nepali way to shrug one’s shoulders and hope for the best.

Sadly, people have been hoping for a long time: even before the earthquakes, Nepal was one of the poorest, most corrupt and least equal countries in the world.

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Nepal’s Aid System Is Broken. So These Lifesavers Hacked It

Mon, 2015-06-01 00:00 — SmShako

The village of Dandagaun is hard to reach on a good day. The access road starts at the Bhote Koshi River, a Class V waterway that drains Himalayan glaciers, then heads more or less straight up for 5,000 feet, past tiny villages and mountain streams. After 10 long miles it curves into a bowl that opens to the northeast. Here sit terraced fields of rice and corn cut into the hillside. Technically speaking, the village, in Nepal’s Sindhupalchowk district, lies in the Himalayan foothills. But these are foothills in the way that the sun is a medium-size star. The ridgeline above the village rises sharply for a quarter mile. Looking at it requires straining your neck directly up.

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