Netherland GV Team

Facts about Nepal Earthquake

A strong (7.8) earthquake hit Nepal in the area near Barpak, a mountain village between capital Kathmandu and tourist town Pokhara. The earthquake was followed by many powerful aftershocks and a very powerful one (6.7) hit Nepal on Sunday April 26.

The earthquakes caused extensive damage to buildings and thousands of deaths and injuries and was even felt in Pakistan, India and Bangladesh.

Many (historic) buildings collapsed, temples have been ruined, roads destroyed. Nearly 8000 deaths in Nepal and tens of deaths in India & Tibet. The quake was followed by more than 430 aftershocks and another huge earthquake (6.8) on May 12.

Netherland GV Team

Team leader Simone Tabor and her team members from Netherland joined hands on January 26, 2014 to build a shelter for Prabha Shrestha and Goma Mijar. These 17 volunteers worked along with Habitat for Humanity Nepal’s partner organization Sri Gramin Women Development Multiple Purpose Cooperative Ltd. in Kavre to build stone and mud house for Prabha, and brick and cemented house for Goma. Over 6 days, they victoriously built a concrete house for Prabha and Goma, and learnt a typical way of constructing house, enduring a joy of helping others.

Gerard one of the team members shared that he will be visiting Gomas’ house after a year along with his wife.

It’s true that comparatively we have more amount of money than Nepalese do have. But we feel self-satisfied to help Nepalese with those amounts. – Dennis.