In search of new homes of harmony

Of Sichuan's landscape people used to say, "Beyond these mountains are even bigger mountains". This could now be one way to describe all the work that needs to be done to help the people in areas hit by the recent earthquake.

As the debris in the quake-hit towns are shoveled and cleared and actions taken to control accompanying threats (like floods and diseases), people are beginning to realize more and more what a Herculean task still remains in helping the victims find their new homes. Not just those who have lost their houses, but also those who have lost their factories (and jobs), and those who have lost their streets and towns.

It is still to be ascertained whether people will have to be evacuated from an extensive area of the mountains due to the unsafe geological conditions following the major earthquake, and also due to the constant pressure from the push of the Indian plate of the earth's crust toward the Himalayas and areas beyond (Sichuan being one).