Student travels back to Nepal to mourn for her mother

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Maya Shyangba Hyolmo Credit: ITV Cymru Wales

It is monsoon season now in Nepal and thousands of Nepalis are trying to rebuild their lives and their country three months after the devastating earthquake

Maya Shyangba Hyolmo is one of them. The Coleg Cambria hairdressing student lost her mother in the disaster and her family home.

She has travelled from Chester back to Nepal to help her relatives. When she heard about the quake, she feared the worst. After speaking to her uncle on the phone, her fears were confirmed.

Watch: Carole Green reports from Nepal

Maya’s friends back home helped to raise money towards her journey to Nepal.

She has now been back to her village to pay respects to her mother, and to gather what personal items she could find.

Now homeless, her father is staying with relatives in Kathmandu.

Maya at her family home which was destroyed in the quake Credit: Maya Shyangba Hyolmo

Across Nepal half a million houses have been destroyed, and half that number again are damaged.

Meanwhile almost daily aftershocks continue following the earthquake in April.

One of the largest temporary campsites currently in Kathmandu Credit: ITV Cymru Wales

You can watch Wales This Week: Life After the Quake here.