03.05.2015

Good news first: We are very happy to tell you that there are neither injured or dead people among our staff members and their families in Kathmandu, nor among our children and the staff of the Children’s Home in Lubhu, only a few kilometres away from the capital.

Our school coordinator Shyam Pandit returned from his inspections of Sindhupal District today and finally brought reliable information and photos of the destroyed area. Accordingly, our schools in Kadambas, Thulosiruwari and Sangachok got destroyed completely, as well as the state school in Chautara. All other schools in that area are slightly to medium heavily damaged. Both the hospital in Nawal Parasi in Terai and the school in Pathihani are intact. The Sindhupal District is the worst destroyed district in Nepal. Hundreds of wounded people are assumed to be still under the ruins. According to Shyam Pandit NHB is the only aid organisation to give acute local help. Only now big organisations start arriving there, too.

Presently Sunil and Shyam are providing the inhabitants of Chautara and Kadambas with the essentials to survive like food and blankets (see photo). Both work very hard and do extraordinarily well. The first donations were used to buy 7,000 kg of rice and 500 kg of wheat.