1 Reconnaissance Mission:

Two days after the earthquake, a first team left in the mountains near Chitwan. After an hour of walking, they assessed the damage and provided some first aid: food and potable water.

And as soon as they got back, a new and much bigger mission began…

 

2- Dhading Mission: to bring essential supplies in the Dhading district, close to the epicenter.

 

Thanks to your donations, not less than 1 350kg of rice, and other cereals, tents, medical supplies and care have been provided to the remote villages. What’s more, before we left, Chitwan’s people gathered to generously offer clothing, drinking water, medicines and food for us to distribute to the poorest Nepalese people during the mission.

 

The team woke up at dawn and it took them 12 hours to reach their destination. The earthquake made mountain roads even more chaotic than what they used to be. They found many landslides on the way and overflowed rivers made their way almost impossible ...  Luckily, they are resourceful and have big arms! They eventually reached Khalte late at night.

 

There, everything is destroyed, not even one house withstood the shock. Everything is just bricks and dust. Under the debris, many dead animals begin to decompose. Getting them out and burying them became our team’s priority, to avoid any pandemic to spread out.

In many villages, in Nepal, young adults left to work in other countries to support their families. Only elderly people and children are left here. Our help is therefore crucial in these villages where nobody has the strength to clear away the damaged land.

 

Food distribution began the next morning. The villages are very scattered in the mountains, so they waited for all the villagers to gather in the center of one of the villages to fairly distribute tents and food. This is where the nurse who came with us began to provide her first aid care.

After two hard nights there and several hours walking, we finally came back exhausted but satisfied with this successful mission!

 

3- Sindupalchok Mission #1: to bring food to the north of Nepal, in the extremely touched region of Sindhupalchok.

After a few days of rest at the Ecolodge, we go for the third emergency mission.

We decided to stop in Kathmandu to get supplies and to eat at Fresh Nepal, Mission Muskaan association’s orphanage.

 

Then we distributed 1 375kg of rice, salt and oil, soap, toothpaste and toothbrushes for the 80 houses in the village of Deurali. Many houses are destroyed and people are still terribly afraid of the many earthquakes that persist in the region.

 

4- Sindupalchok Mission #2: the day in Kathmandu, two Nepalese women have crossed our path. They were collecting donations to buy food for an extremely remote village in the mountains. The only way to reach the village and rescue them is by helicopter. We decided to help them. We bought rice, they bought of the salt and oil thanks to the collected donations. This time, there were 68 families to save from hunger, and for this, we needed 2 040kg of rice. We therefore left, with these two wonderful women, but we stopped on the roadside, 3 hours away from the capital ... it was impossible to go further, the houses were perched high in the mountains and a river was blocking our way. Many villagers had been warned of our arrival and waited for us impatiently to bring food to their families. It took not less two-hour walk up the mountain to the first house.

 

5-On the road, we met a Nepalese family from the lowest caste in Nepal. Nobody had stopped yet to help them. Their home was destroyed by the earthquake, the whole family now lives in the mushroom workshop where they worked but as the owner wants the work to start again, he has decided to expel them in a few days and they are left with no place to go to. We are therefore trying to do our best to help them find a solution ... in the meanwhile, we left them a few bags of rice.

 

In conclusion?

 

Stressful days but filled with emotions. Switching from laughter to tears, the Nepalese people’s strength striked us.

Two weeks after the horrible earthquake that Nepal will never forget, international aid is finally arriving ! Villages are slowly starting to be provided with food and drinking water. As for us, our next mission will be the reconstruction. We only have a short time before the monsoon arrives, so we called for volunteers from all countries to help us rebuild quickly. If we have time, we will undertake the construction of houses and sustainable schools, to protect the inhabitants.

 

To be continued !