66-year-old Saili Tamang of Hiledevi, Sunapati Rural Municipality-3, has lost her appetite and sleep these days. A landslide that started years ago from the Khani River flowing below her house has now destroyed both her home and her heart.

One of Saily's houses is about to collapse due to the continuous landslides, while the other is cracked. Her son and daughter-in-law live in Kathmandu. She has been living alone in the same cracked house. 'The house is about to collapse completely, I am afraid but there is nowhere to go,' she says, 'I wish the government had shifted my residence. I cannot sleep at night, I am not hungry during the day.'

After the lower house where she used to live was destroyed by the landslide, she has now started living in the upper house. But it is unknown when that house will also collapse. With the entire village at risk of landslides, many families have moved to safer places. But Saily is still spending days and nights in the house that is about to collapse.

Chet Bahadur Khadka, 70, of Sunapati-3, is also surrounded by crises like Saily's. According to him, the landslide has now brought the village to a state of complete destruction. 'The village has been swept away by the landslide, there is no place left to live,' he laments, 'We could have lived somewhere else. We don't need this government to eat even if it eats. We could have just saved our lives. There was a lot of love for this place, but now that love has to be killed.'

Khadka said that as the landslide that started from the Khani River gradually spread to the upper reaches, settlements from Keureni, Saune, Nagashiba, Chyamdung to Dampu Danda are at high risk. As the land moves, cracks have been seen in the houses, fields are being washed away and even the road has collapsed.

Even the house of 40-year-old Sita Khadka from the same place is no longer fit for living. After the landslide moved the land, her house is about to collapse. But with nowhere else to go, she and her husband are forced to stay in the same precarious house. Sita says, 'The house is about to collapse. Even when I sleep at night, stones and lumps of soil fall. I have to live in complete fear. When I go to cut grass, my ears fall, I have no place to stand. I have no place to live, where to go? I don't know what to do.'

As the landslide continues to move the land of the village, more than 77 families from Keureni, Saune and other settlements in Sunapati Rural Municipality-3, like Sita, are spending their days and nights in fear. Many houses in the village have collapsed. Most of the houses have cracks, and as farmlands are being washed away, the future of the settlement is becoming uncertain.

The landslide that started years ago in the Khani River flowing below the settlement in Sunapati Rural Municipality-3 is now spreading throughout the settlement. Ward Chairman Kul Bahadur Thing informed that more than 77 households are now at high risk after the land started shifting after the incessant rains on Asoj 17, 18 and 19.

According to him, 77 households are at risk of landslides. Of these, 22 houses have been completely damaged. The rural municipality has decided to provide immediate relief of Rs 15,000 to families with complete damage, while Rs 5,000 to families with minor damage,' Ward Chairman Thing said. According to Thing, more than 500 people are currently at high risk of landslides as there are up to 13 members in a single family in the area.

According to Sunapati Rural Municipality Chairman Thulokancha Tamang, the rural municipality has assessed the risk of landslide-affected areas and started preparing to relocate settlements to safer places. 'If it rains, there can be immediate danger,' says Chairman Tamang, 'That is why the rural municipality is immediately making arrangements to accommodate the affected families in safe places. Preparations are being made to temporarily accommodate them in schools and health units nearby. If there is not enough space there, arrangements will be made for them to stay and eat in the rural municipality premises.'