by the August 26 flooding on the China-Nepal border. Nepal's disaster agency said Friday that 1,385 bodies had been recovered and 5,130 people remained missing. In China, state media reports 43 dead and 519 missing. The flood claimed her mother's life; her body has not been found. Her younger sister is battling pneumonia in hospital, with their father at her bedside. Yet one thing is unchanged  Tamang still wants to become a doctor. "I get nightmares about the flood," the shy seventh grader said at a Save the Children learning centre in Nuwakot district. "But I have dreams." Her mother, a housekeeper, was working at a hydropower project office beside the Trishuli River when the waters came. "When the water came gushing, my mother could not escape it. I survived because I was at school," she said, eyes glistening. Her only keepsake is a black face mask tucked in her bag. Save the Children says at least 540 children have been separated from their parents. Teacher Shanti Sapkota said many arrived in shock, crying that their homes and parents had been "swept away." "But they are slowly moving on," she told AFP. The government has promised education through high school for affected children, with a $6.5-million scholarship fund for some 1,000 students. "We are giving priority to children who have lost their guardians," said education minister Sasmit Pokharel. Psychologist Ekta Shreshtha said the children are easily triggered and many have "retreated into a shell." "We try to keep them distracted with toys and fun activities... but their whole life is ahead of them. The pain is going to come back again." (Bssnews)