By Julia Krepska | Director
After consultation with the Nepalese authorities and other NGOs, including CWIN and Red Cross, we identified the largest need for relief assistance to be in the Dhading district, near the epicentre. Before the earthquake, within 16 villages in that area, there were about 5000 houses – now there are 20-30. We are also assisting communities in the Nuwakot area - one the of the worst affected areas during the earthquake.
It has been raining since the earthquake and most people in villages couldn’t get shelter or food, and no assistance has been available to them so far.
The amount of people injured, or worse, is still unknown. So far almost 200 bodies have been recovered from that area but the number is likely to rise significantly. The aid is starting to reach some of the villages in Ghorka and Dhading from today. We are getting supplies including tents and blankets, and together with CWIN are transporting these to the villages that desperately need them.
The villages that we will be getting the aid to are within these 6 VDCs (Village Development Committees – each VDC usually consists of 2-3 villages): Phulkharka, Mulpani, Gumdi, Slyankot, Jyamrung, Tripureshwor
We have also uploaded the names of the places that we are assiting on the Kathmandu Living Labs website so that anyone from the area can contact Our Sansar staff with up to date information and request for assistance. http://kathmandulivinglabs.org/earthquake/reports/view/413
We hope to be able to assist as many people as possible in that region where some of the villages are very difficult to reach. We will be posting updates as the work progresses.
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