Sunday, May 3, 2015

Help victims of the earthquake in Nepal



◼ Earthquake survivors plead for aid in Nepal mountain villages - Gretawire

Earthquake survivors in Nepal’s mountain villages plead for help, as U.N. officials say more helicopters are needed to reach the isolated areas.

Nepal has been shaken by more than 70 aftershocks following the April 25 quake, and its people remain on edge. One brief aftershock Saturday afternoon shook Pauwathok’s only paved road, triggering screams from residents who began to run, then stopped when the tremor eased.

The small village is located in the district of Sindupalchok, where more deaths have been recorded than anywhere else in Nepal — 2,560, compared to 1,622 in Kathmandu. The U.N. says up to 90 percent of the houses in Sindupalchok have been destroyed.

Only a handful of the village’s roughly 80 homes remain habitable. Mostly made of brick and mud and sticks, they were either completely leveled or damaged beyond repair. Some families now sleep under makeshift shelters of debris that they constructed from their own ruined homes — torn roofs and boards, whatever was left.

Others sleep under tarpaulins — obtained only after residents sat in the middle of the road Friday and blocked an aid convoy that eventually relinquished 30 of them, said Giri, who took one for his family. “We only have the clothes on our backs. The rest has been buried under the rubble,” he said.















◼ EARTHQUAKE IN NEPAL: How you can help - LINKS to Aid organizations like Red Cross, Oxfam, more...
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