It was a Saturday, close to midday, when the ground didn't stop shaking. The magnitude 7.8 Gorkha earthquake struck Kathmandu Valley and the districts around it, bringing down temples that had stood for centuries in under a minute, along with homes, schools, and close to nine thousand lives across Nepal. Aftershocks kept coming for weeks, so nobody felt safe going back indoors even after the first night passed. What people from Nepal remember most is not just the quake itself but the weeks after — sleeping outside, the queues for relief material, and how much of the rebuilding, years later, communities ended up doing themselves.