Quakers help ‘at risk’ groups in Nepal
Friends have distributed rice and relief packages in Nepal
Rice and relief packages for pregnant women have been organised by Friends and distributed to victims of the recent earthquakes in Nepal.
Quaker South Asia Interest Group (QSAIG) correspondent Subhash Kattel and friends travelled by motorbike to Koshidekha village in the Kavre district, two and a half hours from Kathmandu. They met with community leaders and discussed what was required.
Subhash estimated that at least one hundred sacks of rice were needed immediately.
The group decided to meet needs not addressed by other volunteers, such as helping mothers feed and clothe newborn babies.
The group returned to Koshidekha by truck, carrying 3,450 kilogrammes of rice for about 370 families and seventy-three relief packages for pregnant women and mothers of small babies. The packages contained clothes, cooking oil and sleeping mats, among other things.
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