A group of volunteers from Royal Bhutan Police and Zhemgang Dzongkhag administration are building a temporary shelter for the family whose house was damaged by a landslide last Saturday in Wangdigang. The landslide had been caused by incessant rainfall.
Thinley and his family lost their house to the landslide on August 10.
According to Dzongkhag’s Kidu Officer, Sonam Jamtsho, the relief works are being carried out by a volunteer group of the Multi-sectoral Task Force and the Kidu Office. “We are constructing a temporary house for the family using parts from the damaged house.”
The beneficiary, Thinley, said he is grateful for the immediate support from His Majesty the King’s Kidu office and the Dzongkhag Administration.
“I would like thank our King and dzongkhag officials for all the help given to me and my family. I don’t know how I would have managed on my own.”
Thinley hopes to build a new house in the near future in an area where it will not be struck by a similar disaster. Thinley lives with his wife and seven children.
