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Nepal Earthquake 2015Invitation to join hands to rebuild a village

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Quick facts about Nepal Earthquake 2015

• Killed more than 8,000 people

(and counting) and almost double of that injured

• 11.56 A.M. (NST) 25 April 2015

• 7.8 Magnitude in Richter Scale

8 May 2015 Invitation to join hands to rebuild a village

• Most powerful earthquake since 1934

• Epicenter – Gorkha District

• Hundreds of thousands of people homeless

• Ongoing aftershocks until now (8 May)

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Relief Efforts• Local authorities overwhelmed and unprepared to deal with

disaster of this scale as Nepal saw serious political instability in past 2 decades

• Aid pledges pouring in

• Nepal ill equipped to make full use of these resources – Countries lined up to donate technical expertise to address this problem

• Nepal government’s poor effort to centralize relief support highly criticized and the mobility of resources are slow and there have been news of resources misappropriation


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Current State• Many of the already poor roads

cut off by land slides

• Rural area is yet to see any rescue effort or relief support

• Support concentrated in accessible areas

• Many areas without power, electricity and any means of communication


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Our Focus – Saurpani Village, Gorkha (near epicenter)

• 100% of the houses damaged – most of them flattened

• The little village houses 20 families

• 4 Families lost their loved ones

• Several Injured


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Rescue and relief efforts in Saurpani

• No rescue or relief efforts

• Derelict road cut of by land slide

• At-least 4 hours of off road travel

• We were the first team to arrive with supplies


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Destruction

8 8 May 2015 Invitation to join hands to rebuild a village

Living

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Efforts so far


Tin roof to build temporary shelters


Mattresses

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