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   aid      airport      attempts      avalanches      capital      devastating      extent      helicopters      homes      length      light      problem      remote      rugged      runway      scale      size      supplies      support      tarpaulins  
The full of Nepal's 7.8 magnitude earthquake is still coming to one week later. The United Nations has asked for more for the rescue . Only $53 million of the $415 million promised has been given. The Kathmandu is having difficulties with the of the destruction. Whole towns along the of the Kathmandu Valley have been flattened. Hundreds of thousands of across this poor Himalayan nation have been destroyed. More than three million people are sheltering under blue and in need of food and medicine.

Nepal’s Prime Minister has admitted that his government is overwhelmed by the of the disaster. He requested to help deliver . It is difficult to deliver aid because of the country's terrain. Many of the roads have been swept away by and landslides. Making the worse is the fact that Kathmandu's international has only one . This is slowing down the delivery of much-needed . The U.N. World Food Program warned that it would take time for aid to reach more communities.

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