Here in Nepal, the house for our beneficiary family is coming along slowly but surely. After series of delays, we are finally making good progress. We are building to very high international seismic standards, per the post-earthquake Nepal Building Code. We had to submit engineered plans for the permit and are being inspected for our steel reinforcements and column concrete. The brick walls are “double run”—9 inches thick— and there are reinforced concrete tie-bands at the