M 6.5 nepal

[EMSC]

Magnitude M 6.5Region NEPALDate time 2015-04-25 06:45:30.0 UTCLocation 28.29 N ; 84.83 EDepth 80 km



More... (http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=438546)

[Wind]

I think this means that there is some larger movement going on.

[Billy]

This been upgraded to a 7.9 magnitude around Kathmandu. 114 dead so far and many more trapped. Mount Everest has had avalanches and people are trapped at base camps there.

[Wind]

That is truly sad...

[Agape]

http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll256/PaldenLhamo/India%20Album/IMG_1830_zpsd9b8bb80.jpg

This is terrible devastation .. http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/in-pics-earthquake-rocks-nepal-tremors-felt-in-india-too/article1-1340866.aspx

I took the above photo 2 years ago at this time .. see more pictures here :

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?56705-Bodhanath-Stupa-Kathmandu


I bet sure they may need humanitarian help there , medical teams and all other forms of practical support .

[Fairy Friend]

Things are still unsettled.

[Limor Wolf]

Nearly 1,500 killed in magnitude-7.9 earthquake in Nepal
Kathmandu, Apr 25, 2015 (PTI)

Kathmandu, Apr 25, 2015 (PTI)

The quake measuring 7.9 on Richter scale, which was followed by 16 aftershocks of magnitude 4.5 or greater, striking heavy casualties in Kathmandu and injuring thousand others. Hundreds were feared missing across the country. Picture courtesy Twitter

Nepal was today struck by the worst earthquake in 80 years, leaving nearly 1,500 people dead in flattened houses and buildings including the iconic Dharhara tower and renowned Darbar Square in the heart of the capital.

http://www.deccanherald.com/page_images/thumb/2015/04/25/473750_thump.jpg

The quake measuring 7.9 on Richter scale, which was followed by 16 aftershocks of magnitude 4.5 or greater, striking heavy casualties in Kathmandu and injuring thousand others. Hundreds were feared missing across the country.

"Army estimates death toll as much as 1457 so far," Nepal's Finance Minister Ram Sharan Mahat tweeted.

He said, "90 per cnt of approx 1000 homes and huts reduced to rubble in Barpak Larpak area."

According to Nepalese Home Ministry figures, 150 people lost lives in neighbouring Bhaktapur, 250 in Sindhu, 67 in Lalitpur and 37 in Dhading district. Besides, 20 people were killed in the country's eastern region, 33 in western region and rest in other parts of the Himalayan nation.

The earthquake around 11:56 am with epicentre at Lamjung, around 80 kilometers northwest of Kathmandu, had its impact in several cities in Bihar, West Bengal and UP and tremors were felt across vast stretches of east and northeast India.


http://www.deccanherald.com/content/473750/nearly-1500-killed-magnitude-79.html


*Prayers may be helpful at this time

[Agape]

Swayambhunath

Swayambhunath (Devanagari: स्वयम्भूनाथ स्तुप; sometimes romanized Swoyambhunath) is an ancient religious complex atop a hill in the Kathmandu Valley, west of Kathmandu city. It is also known as the Monkey Temple as there are holy monkeys living in the north-west parts of the temple. The Tibetan name for the site means 'Sublime Trees' (Wylie..Phags.pa Shing.kun), for the many varieties of trees found on the hill. However, Shing.kun may be a corruption of the local Newari name for the complex, Singgu, meaning 'self-sprung'.[1] For the Buddhist Newars in whose mythological history and origin myth as well as day-to-day religious practice, Swayambhunath occupies a central position, it is probably the most sacred among Buddhist pilgrimage sites. For Tibetans and followers of Tibetan Buddhism, it is second only to Boudhanath.
The Swayambhunath complex consists of a stupa, a variety of shrines and temples, some dating back to the Licchavi period. A Tibetan monastery, museum and library are more recent additions. The stupa has Buddha's eyes and eyebrows painted on. Between them, there is something painted which looks like the nose - but is the Nepali symbol of 'unity', in the main Nepali language dialect[citation needed]. There are also shops, restaurants and hostels. The site has two access points: a long stairway, claimed to have 365 steps, leading directly to the main platform of the temple, which is from the top of the hill to the east; and a car road around the hill from the south leading to the southwest entrance. The first sight on reaching the top of the stairway is the Vajra.


Mythology

According to Swayambhu Purana, the entire valley was once filled with an enormous lake, out of which grew a lotus. The valley came to be known as Swayambhu, meaning "Self-Created." The name comes from an eternal self-existent flame (svyaṃbhu) over which a sūpa was later built.[3]
Swayambhunath is also known as the Monkey Temple as there are holy monkeys living in the north-west parts of the temple. They are holy because Manjushree, the bodhisattva of wisdom and learning was raising the hill which the Swayambhunath Temple stands on. He was supposed to leave his hair short but he made it grow long and head lice grew. It is said that the head lice transformed into these monkeys.
The Bodhisattva Manjusri had a vision of the lotus at Swayambhu and traveled there to worship it. Seeing that the valley can be good settlement and to make the site more accessible to human pilgrims, Manjusri cut a gorge at Chovar. The water drained out of the lake, leaving the valley in which Kathmandu now lies. The lotus was transformed into a hill and the flower become the Swayambhunath stupa.



History

Swayambhunath, is among the oldest religious sites in Nepal. According to the Gopālarājavaṃśāvalī Swayambhunath was founded by the great-grandfather of King Mānadeva (464-505 CE), King Vṛsadeva, about the beginning of the 5th century CE. This seems to be confirmed by a damaged stone inscription found at the site, which indicates that King Mānadeva ordered work done in 640 CE.[3]
However, Emperor Ashoka is said to have visited the site in the third century BCE and built a temple on the hill which was later destroyed.
Although the site is considered Buddhist, the place is revered by both Buddhists and Hindus. Numerous king Hindu followers are known to have paid their homage to the temple, including Pratap Malla, the powerful king of Kathmandu, who is responsible for the construction of the eastern stairway in the 17th century.[4]
The stupa was completely renovated in May 2010, its first major renovation in 90 years[5] and its 15th in the nearly 1,500 years since it was built. The dome was re-gilded using 20 kg of gold. The renovation was funded by the Tibetan Nyingma Meditation Center of California, and began in June 2008.



Symbolism

The dome at the base represents the entire world. When a person awakes (represented by eyes of wisdom and compassion) from the bonds of the world, the person reaches the state of enlightenment. The thirteen pinnacles on the top symbolize that sentient beings have to go through the thirteen stages of spiritual realizations to reach enlightenment or Buddhahood.
There is a large pair of eyes on each of the four sides of the main stupa which represent Wisdom and Compassion. Above each pair of eyes is another eye, the third eye. It is said that when Buddha preaches, cosmic rays emanate from the third eye which act as messages to heavenly beings, so that those interested can come down to earth to listen to the Buddha. The hellish beings and beings below the human realm cannot come to earth to listen to the Buddha's teaching, however, the cosmic rays relieve their suffering when Buddha preaches.
There are carvings of the Panch Buddhas (five Buddhas) on each of the four sides of stupa. There are also statues of the Buddhas at the base of the stupas. Panch Buddhas are Buddha in metaphorical sense in Tantrayana. They are Vairochana (occupies the center and is the master of the temple), Akshobhya (faces the east and represents the cosmic element of consciousness), Ratna Sambhava (faces the south and represents the cosmic element of sensation), Amitabha (He represents cosmic element of Sanjna (name) and always faces the West) and Amoghsiddhi (He represents the cosmic element of conformation and faces the north).
Each morning before dawn hundreds of Buddhist (Vajrayana) and Hindu pilgrims ascend the 365 steps from eastern side that lead up the hill, passing the gilded Vajra (Tibetan: Dorje) and two lions guarding the entrance, and begin a series of clockwise circumambulations of the stupa.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swayambhunath


http://sacredsites.com/asia/nepal/swayambhunath_stupa.html



Photos I took in 2013 , about 2 years ago :

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One of the temple cones ...

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Temple yard with many stupas and little antique shops..


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Old tree and views on mountains surrounding Kathmandu valley

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[Agape]

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Inside the temple, Bodhisatwa Manjushri with sward of 'fierce wisdom'

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The all victorious crown ..on the roof ( I was not supposed to climb there but spontaneously ..could not resist the tiny stairs and getting proper view of everything ...

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The rooftop ...

:o

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From there ...the temples ..

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Nearing the Sunset ..

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[Agape]

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It's in shambles now .. not all . It's been down many times and will be rebuilt .

Too much destruction ..

[pyrangello]

Heard this morning there were 1000 people on some part of everest when this happened, 400 are still on the mountain. They said a 6.7 aftershock , yeah right , how about just say it was another earthquake. Mother earth is waking up , many prayers are indeed in order for those lost and injured.

[Tesla_WTC_Solution]

This sort of thing, makes me wish I'd stayed current on all former training and gone into disaster response :(

<--- was totally blindsided by this even tho others here saw it coming. eek!!!

I was looking at the Red Cross site last night, in the http://www.redcross.org/support/international-support/international-disaster-responders

requirements seem steep but w/ modern tech that stupid satcom crap should be less important and the will to help dig folks out, more so

p.s.

https://www.yahoo.com/movies/s/dan-fredinburg-google-exec-killed-mt-everest-avalanche-040015648.html

Dan Fredinburg, Google Exec, Killed in Mt. Everest Avalanche

The Hollywood Reporter
The Hollywood Reporter
April 24, 2015

[MorningSong]

RE: Dan Fredinburg:



Google exec. killed in Nepal quake while climbing Everest
Dan Fredinburg was experienced climber
UPDATED 11:30 AM CDT Apr 26, 2015


NEW YORK (CNNMoney) —Google executive Dan Fredinburg died while climbing Mt. Everest during the massive Nepal earthquake on Saturday.

Fredinburg was privacy director for the company's Google X team, which is responsible for some of the search company's more forward-thinking initiatives, including driverless cars and Google Glass.

A frequent and experienced climber, Fredinburg was scaling Everest with two other Google employees this weekend, while a 7.8-magnitude earthquake caused an avalanche. Though the other two Googlers survived along with other sherpas and climbing team members, Fredinburg succumbed to a severe head injury, according to an Instagram post on his account written by his sister.

"We appreciate all of the love that has been sent our way thus far and know his soul and his spirit will live on in so many of us," his sister Megan wrote. "All our love and thanks to those who shared this life with our favorite hilarious strong willed man. He was and is everything to us."

Fredinburg formed the Google Adventure Team, which mapped exotic locations for Google's Street View tool. The team took 360-degree photos of the summit of Mt. Everest and the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, among others.

A Google executive who made headlines for dating actress Sophia Bush, Fredinburg had been posting photos and updates of his adventures in Nepal on Instagram and Twitter, where he referred to himself as an "adventurer, inventor, and energetic engineer."

Bush shared her grief on Instagram, calling Fredinburg "one of my favorite human beings" and "one of the great loves" of her life.

"Today I find myself attempting to pick up the pieces of my heart that have broken into such tiny shards, I'll likely never find them all," she wrote. "Today I, and so many of my loved ones, lost an incredible friend."

Fredinburg was scaling Everest with a group organized by Jagged Globe, which has offered mountaineering expeditions, courses, adventure skiing and other experiences for the past 20 years.

The expedition company sent its condolences.

"Our thoughts and prayers go out to Dan's family and friends," read a statement on Jagged Globe's website, "whilst we pray too for all those who have lost their lives in one of the greatest tragedies ever to hit this Himalayan nation."

In a blog post, Fredinburg's boss, Google's privacy director Lawrence You, said that Google's crisis response team has launched Person Finder to help victims families locate their loved ones. Google is also working to get updated satellite imagery to help the recovery effort.

You noted that Google.org is committing $1 million to the response, and the company will offer gift-matching to its employees soon.

"Our thoughts are with the people of Nepal, and with Dan's family and friends during this terrible time," You wrote.

http://www.4029tv.com/money/google-executive-killed-in-nepal-earthquake-while-hiking-everest/32578342

[Rocky_Shorz]

100,000 monks praying for Victims in Nepal

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CDjA4tXUEAEAWnB.jpg

[Rocky_Shorz]

this video, someone was taking the moment the avalanche hit the Mt Everette hikers...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JC_wIWUC2U



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSei3jzgEwM


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Rri9MzGvV0&feature=player_detailpage

[Agape]

The thing is ...there are more than 5 million people ( unofficial estimate ) grid locked in Kathmandu valley , there are already short cuts in water supplies for years now ,

water for household = drinking water has to be regularly purchased in canisters .

Power grid - electricity supply is weak under normal circumstances , running 14 hours a day by government orders , to save power .

There is enormous amount of traffic and pollution , also dust , also biowaste hazard , Bhagimati river is heavily polluted on all banks ,
old timers recall they could swim in it and even drink that water still 50 years ago ..


So there's potentially , looming humanitarian crisis in that area .. in need of rather well prepared environmental , social and cultural project ..

also , there has to be a way to unburden the place , save people go back to villages ..


:angel:

[InCiDeR]

Students pray for people trapped in Nepal earthquake

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/images/attachement/jpg/site1/20150427/eca86bd9dcd816a7ce5a02.jpg

Students light candles and pray for people trapped in Nepal earthquake at the University of South China in Hengyang City, Central China's Hunan province, April 26, 2015.

---

... maybe there is hope for the future relations between China and Nepal, it touched my heart nevertheless...

...and Agape, I have no words to express my gratitude for you sharing your compassion, insights and photos...

[Limor Wolf]

Nepal death toll could exceed 10,000

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April 27th, 2015 - 12:07 am Nan Spowart

THE death toll from the massive earthquake that hit Nepal on Saturday has risen beyond 2,000, with fears it could reach 10,000.

Powerful aftershocks are hampering relief efforts and triggering more avalanches on Mount Everest where at least 17 climbers are known to have been killed and more than 60 injured.

With landslides blocking roads all over the region, rescue workers have been unable to reach the many towns and villages hit by the 7.8 magnitude quake and bad weather forecast for this week is expected to hamper relief efforts.

Hospitals in the capital of Kathmandu have been swamped by casualties of the initial earthquake on Saturday lunchtime and a 6.8 magnitude aftershock yesterday morning. Aftershocks have continued, threatening damaged buildings still standing and forcing hundreds of terrified people to sleep outside on the streets.

Disaster teams from around the globe have been converging on the city’s airport and millions of aid has been pledged by foreign governments, but the devastation is so overwhelming that desperate survivors have been forced to try to dig out trapped family and neighbours by hand.

While the earthquake lasted less than two minutes, it was enough to flatten many of the rickety, overcrowded buildings in Nepal as well as destroy centuries of Nepalese history.

Yesterday rescuers were battling to rescue 200 people trapped in the rubble of the nine-storey Dharahara tower which once proudly dominated the skyline of the capital. Many of the palaces, temples and courtyards of the Unesco-recognised

Durbar Square in Kathmandu’s Old City have been destroyed, while

Swayambhunat’s fifth-century Buddhist temple has been damaged.

Hundreds of buildings in Kathmandu have been razed even though the centre of the quake was 60 miles from the capital. It was so severe that northern India, Tibet and Bangladesh also suffered fatalities, although the death toll outside Nepal is believed to number less than 100.

While the immediate relief response is to dig out survivors, there is growing concern about the risk of disease, hypothermia and hunger as many areas are without food, power and water. Poor phone reception is complicating matters.

British Red Cross spokeswoman Penny Sims said it was hard to get an accurate picture of the scale of the devastation.

“A lot of the roads are blocked, there’s rubble, there have been landslides as well. So that is going to make the aid effort very difficult,” she said.

Hundreds of climbers are known to be trapped in the Everest region, although many of those injured in Saturday’s avalanche on Mount Everest have been airlifted to hospital. The dead included Google executive Dan Fredinburg, who described himself as an adventurer. The tragedy follows last year’s avalanche which claimed the lives of 16 climbers and was then the deadliest in the mountain’s history.

Nepali cook Kanchaman Tamang said he was unsure if he would ever come back after reassuring his family he would be safe despite last year’s disaster.

“The season is over – the route has been destroyed, icefall ladders are broken. I don’t think I will come back next year – this mountain means too much pain.”

Another survivor, Singapore-based climber George Foulsham, said he had been toppled by a “50-storey building of white”.

“I ran and it just flattened me. I tried to get up and it flattened me again. I couldn’t breathe, I thought I was dead,” he said.

“When I finally stood up, I couldn’t believe it passed me over and I was almost untouched.

“I saved for years to climb Everest [but] it feels like the mountain is saying it’s not meant to be climbed for now. It’s too much of a coincidence to see this twice in two years.”

At the moment the international humanitarian effort is being headed by India, keen to maintain its influence in a politically sensitive area close to the Chinese border.

The latter has sent a rescue team, as has the UK, while India is supplying aircraft equipped with medical supplies and a mobile hospital, plus a 40-strong disaster response team.

Pakistan has so far supplied urban search-and-rescue teams equipped with radars and sniffer dogs; four C-130 aircraft carrying a 30-bed field hospital, and army doctors and specialists; and food items, including 2,000 meals, 200 tents and 600 blankets.

Norway has committed £2.5m in humanitarian aid and the US has committed £0.7m as well as a disaster response team. Other pledges of aid have come from Spain, France, Germany and Israel.

But the poor condition of Nepal’s infrastructure means it will be a huge challenge to find and save those buried alive, then feed and house those who are homeless.

Aid workers say the needs of those caught up in the catastrophe are immense.

CARE International said yesterday there was no longer any room in the hospitals with many being treated in the compounds. Medical supplies are needed urgently.

“All of the particularly vulnerable – children, breastfeeding mothers, people with chronic diseases – they have been suffering a lot. It’s essential to get help to these people as quickly as we can,” said Santosh Sharma, CARE’s emergency response coordinator in Kathmandu.

Aftershocks were continuing to terrify the survivors, he added.

“Almost everyone has slept outside and they are creating temporary shelters. I am seeing women and children suffering a lot. They are living outside their homes and fear going inside.

“There is no electricity, and soon there will be a scarcity of water. People have been pooling their resources together, but there will soon be problems with food and with water.”

CARE staff aim to assist up to 75,000 people with temporary shelter, ready-to-eat meals, water purification and toilet construction.

Another charity, Plan UK, believes that poorly built homes and schools will have been toppled in the districts west of the epicenter, including Myagdi, Parbat and Baglung.

Chief executive Tanya Barron said: “We are hearing from colleagues on the ground that destruction in these areas is widespread. Homes and schools have been flattened. Our hope is the timing of the earthquake – Saturday lunchtime – may have helped limit the loss of life. But we’re concerned about the impact of the huge aftershocks.”

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[Agape]

There are thousands of Tibetan refugees living in Nepal with no ID or even refugee certificate - some for generations - the rough mountain borders between what was once Tibet and Nepal , and India on the southern side used to be fluid ..

now occasional escapees from China( Tibetan Autonomous Region ) who are ethnic Tibetans fear repatriations and forceful procedures that would return them to communist governed China ..so they evade even refugee centres that were formerly places of help .

According to this article they can't be even accounted for .. so I also fear that number of causalities may run to many thousands ,

while recovery would require many years of pragmatic assistance , respectful to the people and environment ..



http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-32476346


Fears for Nepal's 'invisible' Tibetan refugees

The number of dead in the Nepal earthquake continues to rise.
But how can authorities be sure about the precise number, or even know where to search for victims among the Nepalese population, when there are tens of thousands of undocumented refugees?
Tibetans fleeing from China have been escaping across the treacherous Himalayan border ever since 1959, when the Chinese overran Tibet. And they have been risking their lives to make the crossing ever since.
Their goal has been to find refuge in Nepal, and, if possible, travel through an open border into India. A small number have been processed and are held in a refugee centre in the Nepalese capital, Kathmandu.

Only a minority of second-generation Tibetans have Nepalese citizenship. The bulk of them are living illegally.
They do not have residency rights and they do not have identity cards. They are stateless and therefore invisible.
Nepal is reluctant to talk about them for fear of upsetting its northern neighbour, one of the country's big investors.
Most ethnic Tibetans live quietly outside Kathmandu in remote villages scattered across the mountains, right up to the Chinese border.
Poorest of the poor
These villages lie right in the quake-affected zone - but those that have perished cannot be identified formally because officially they do not exist.
Ethnic Tibetan villages like Bridim - north of Kathmandu and close to the border with Tibet, at around 3,000 metres above sea level - are among the poorest in this poor rural nation and have been flattened after Nepal's worst earthquake in 80 years.
The Dolma Development Fund is one of the few non-governmental organisations that cares for Tibetan tribals in Nepal. It set up a school in Dhunche, not far from Bridim, to educate 500 ethnic Tibetan children and orphans of the area.
"Bridim is practically razed to the ground," Dolma's chief finance officer Carla Teixeira Alvares Kaspar said.

"We have no idea how many people have survived. There are no rescue missions operating in such isolated areas."
She is also worried about the water supply in Bhorle, in a valley close by.
"It's a big slum. We have children there. There is just one water pipe from the mountains and if that gets disconnected they have nothing. Then disease can spread very quickly."
She spoke of "horrendous landslides" hitting Dhunche.
"There is little communication and power. For refugees, this is the last straw. It was impossible before. There is so much destruction in Kathmandu."
'Nothing good'

"With the monsoon coming in a month or two, I don't anticipate they are going to restore electricity or even communication or minimal roads to the mountains before December. Everything is going to stop in the monsoons," said Ms Kaspar.
The chairman of the Dolma Development Fund, Tim Gocher, lives in Kathmandu with his Nepalese wife, Pooja. He sent this message.
"Pooja, the boys and I are all still fine, however things are much worse than we thought [on Saturday] as information comes through.
"The Dolma charity has lost children we sponsor, the school in Dhunche is largely destroyed along with most of the small houses in the town, and most of Bridim's houses are gone. Information on casualties and damage is patchy.
"We slept in the car last night and most people are too scared to go back to their homes. There are still aftershocks and I think we're not going back in today [Sunday]. Sorry for the bad news. There's nothing good about this situation."

[Limor Wolf]

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http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/04/26/17/28057BEE00000578-3056263-image-m-26_1430064813793.jpg


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[Agape]

mGYBWGWINSk

Aerial view of the city after the EQ :angel:

[Violet]

How can we help?

[Wind]

Nepal earthquake relief (http://www.gofundme.com/Nepal-Earthquake-Relief/)

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[Agape]

http://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2015/apr/28/nepal-earthquake-death-toll-climbs-past-4000-with-many-more-missing-rolling-report

The Guardian has good page with live updates on the situation ..

[Agape]

How can we help?


There are ways .. and they have to be found , me thinks . They need plenty of more medical personal and qualified rescue operators immediately ,

they will need food , medicines , and help .. the situation may last months before life settles and people will be able to rebuild their houses .

They will have to live somewhere through the monsoon .. that's very heavy sometimes in Asia .

If I were Nepali government I'd ask all local guest house owners who account to hundreds in Kathmandu area whose houses and hotels were undamaged and who can offer a place to stay for family or two , to rise their hands immediately .

Once people are under roof it's possible to asses the situation from there .

Understand , there are hundreds of empty guest houses in Kathmandu area , used to lodge tourists under normal circumstances .

The sacrifice has to be shared by people who can afford to help decently , the situation won't last forever and people will be able to return to their homes , sooner or later .


There are ways to contribute money , like through the UNESCO fund : https://www.unicef.org.nz/nepal


:angel: