The earthquake scars are still fresh on the hillside above Muzzaffarabad. Above an incision running along a countour line there are trees and greenery, but below the hillside has been sliced away leaving nothing but grey scree and rubble. When the earthquake rocked this mountainous corner of Pakistani-administered Kashmir last year thousands of tons of rubble were dislodged and came crashing down - destroying the village of Bela Maikri.

The survivors from this village have spent the last year in the al-hadith camp outside Muzzaffarabad, where every day they can look above their tents and jerry-rigged electricity cables and see the remains of the slope which buried their relatives alive.

Nasima Bibi, 25, lost her husband Jameel when the roof collapsed and killed him in his sleep. She managed to escape with her three young children, all under five.

Now she is a woman adrift in what is very much a man's world.

"I fear most for the health of the children," she said. "Sometimes I feel I can't provide for their needs."

Although she is entitled to around £1,000 compensation she hasn't received the money yet.

"I can't read and write. I can't go into a bank."

What of the future?

She looked at the floor, kicked a stone with her foot.

"I'm not thinking about the future," she said. "I'm just sitting here, counting the days."

The al-hadith camp houses a whole village which was wiped out in the earthquake in Oct 2005. The quake affected an area the size of Switzerland, killing 73,000 and making millions homeless. The camp is semi-permanent: there's a small shop selling soap and cigarrettes and the tents have been reinforced with plastic sheeting.

The camp leader Akhtar Syeed told us every one of the 124 families here suffered a death in the earthquake. Now a year on the pain and worry show no sign of abating.

"I'm deeply worried about the coming winter," he said. "The tents will not stand up to the weather. "

He's angry at the government for not giving them land to replace that buried by the earthquake.

"It's a humiliation to live in a tent," the wizened 55-year-old said. "Death would have been better. I was renting my land for 35 years. Now I'm pleading the government to give us some more land. I want to build somewhere for my children. I think they're in danger in the coming winter."