Awesome amounts 🙂 . If you are interested a bit in how we are using your money – well not exactly your money as we aren’t part of the DEC group or anyone else mentioned here but are distributing some stuff from DFID – the department for international development who are spending your taxes….
If it seems weird giving tarpaulins to people with iron roofs it’s because there are holes in the roof and it’s monsoon season soon.
For me this sums up the randomness of it. The building on the right is fine but the building on the left obviously just collapsed. The random nature of it doesn’t really help people sleep easily at night. In Kathmandu a lot survived but in many districts a huge number of houses were completely flattened
Outside the Kathmandu when stuff collapses, it really collapses. Maybe 20% of the houses are completely destroyed with 60% partially to heavily damaged
..and finally, this largely sums up the people here. Incredibly resient in the face of such a disaster. There are lots and lots of little examples of small scale groups of people getting stuff together to send outside the city to help where they can. We have a group of local English speaking students who volunteer with us to help translate during distributions. It’s inspiring stuff