Helen Eager has been keeping us up to date on the work in Nepal. Here is her latest report and video that helps to reveal the great need in Nepal before today's earthquake.
Hi Guys
I spent nearly all day at the hospital today. Everyone likes the 3 Angels food the best. A number of patients have been discharged so I think we only fed about 65 today. The poor people who have been discharged and have no home to go to any more have apparently two places in Pokhara where the Government has arranged for them to stay.
Bhim says that the people he met in Kathmandu who are the Childrens Homes Federation are very nice people and really care about the children. They said that so far only 50% of the registered Childrens Homes have been in touch and they are also very worried about all the unregistered orphanages that they do not know about. Our two men had to unload almost the whole ten tons of food themselves as there was no one available to help them. So they had lots of exercise.!
Bhupendra has gone to the Sindhupalchok district to do an assessment, this district and Gorkha are the two worst hit by the earthquake.
Some information is coming in now of other places where people have no food, it is a huge problem when these villages are high up in the mountains and everything has to be carried by hand. We need some flying foxes.
One of the staff was telling me how that on the day of the earthquake there were stories going around Kathmandu that there was a volcano nearby that was errupting and everyone would be covered with ash, and another story was that the zoo fences had broken and soon .the lions and tigers would be coming along to eat the people who survived. I guess some poor people may have believed this, sounds like a teenager story to me.
I will see if I can attach two photos I took in the hospital today. The lady has lost her house and was injured, she has her young grandson there to go and get food etc for her. She is worried that her daughter in law does not want her, she is very poor. She is a widow. The man was hit on the chest and his house also collapsed, his son is with him but it is quite easy to see that the son is not too happy that he now has the responsibility of taking care of his father. This man lost his wife many years ago. Sad world.
Singing the same song again, please keep praying for everyone and for wisdom and guidance for 3 Angels to help where the need is the greatest and also to open the way to get the needed things.
Helen A friend sent me this link so if you have time watch it.