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In response to the current crisisin Nepal, International Drikung Kagyu Council (IDKC) in Nepal have set up a team called "IDKC Nepal Earthquake Reconstruction Committee", comprising 11 representatives, who are monks and lay devotees.
We are Drikung Kagyu devotees in Beijing, China. Due to the communication barriers in Kathmandu, we decided to help raising funds and updating the info.
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the donations will be sent to "IDKC Nepal Earthquake Reconstruction Committee" bank account.
In the aftermath of the massive earthquake that struck Nepal on 25 April, Their society members, while being enmeshed in the struggle for survival themselves, are helping others to overcome the predicament they are in, and at the same time, trying to grasp the scale of the damage. There are currently several areas that are in urgent need of relief funds.
The monks from Rinchen ling Monastery sent food to victims.
To help the victims in Mamdi village.
They are followers of Tibetan Buddhism, who have for generations called Nepal their home. They know their people and their way of life. As a Buddhist group, they actively manifest their compassion and sense of unity in helping one another.
A List of Work-in-Progress:
1) Emergency provision of relief items like tents, tarpaulin, basic food stuffs, medicine, clothing, sleepingbags etc, to the earthquake victims, who live in the vicinity of the Nepal branch members’ community as well as those in remote areas.
2) Counseling for those affected by the earthquake.
3) Providing assistance to orphanages and those elderly who live by themselves.
4) Renting of helicopters for the delivery of disaster relief items to those victims living in Lapchi mountains and Chosam area, which are now inaccessible by land due to road damage and the collapse of bridges, and also for assessing the condition in those areas in order to evacuate the injured to the hospitals in Kathmandu.
5) As some areas are experiencing internet and mobile communication ‘cut off’, we are now helping those foreigners who have gone on a pilgrimage tour to Lapchi by contacting their family members overseas and updating them on the situation.
To make a rescue plan in midnight.
To deliver the relief supplies to remote villages.
List of requirements -
Short term needs:
Tarpaulin, tents, sleeping bags, blankets, clothing, medical supply, rental of trucks, cars and helicopters.
Volunteers and doctors needed.
Medium and long term needs :
Generators, solar panels, walkietalkie, satellite phones, reconstruction of bridges, roads and houses.
To provide medicines to the victims.
To guide experts inspect building damages.
One of the projects:
Lapchi Snow Mountain is situated in the eastern part of
Nepal on the border with Tibet, at a height of about 4850 meters. It is
considered to be a very holy place that has been blessed by the presence of
siddhas and masters like Mahasiddha Saraha, Padmasambhava and Milarepa who
meditated in the caves of Lapchi. Lapchi is closely bound up with the history
of the Drikung Kagyu. Kyobpa Jigten Sumgön had sent countless Vajrayana
practitioners there and in the centuries that followed many outstanding masters
from the Drikung lineage went to Lapchi to advance their practice. Many
practitioners went on extended meditation retreats in one of the numerous
sacred caves.
Main
road that connects Lapchi to Nepal destroyed.
We have been notified by members of Lapchi association that
almost all of the homes in Lapchi have been destroyed along with roads,
bridges, monastery and retreat homes. A few of the people have also been
injured and they were brought down to Kathmandu to be admitted in the hospital.
Since
the roads were in bad condition, this photo was taken from helicopter showing
homes destroyed.
The people residing in Lapchi are poor and live in simple
homes made of stones and metal roofs. They lack the abundance of basic
utilities like electricity, heat, hot water and gas for cooking that we take so
for granted. With the recent earthquake the situation has only gotten worse. The
simple homes that they lived in have been destroyed and they have been left
homeless. Currently they are living in self-made shelters in nearby caves. Many
have lost all animal live stocks like yak and cows that they greatly depend on.
Due to the recent rain and the roads being completely
destroyed, the much needed aid has not reached them from the nearby cities.
Somehow till now the villagers have managed to survive due to the fact they are
used to living simple lives. But they are concerned about the future weather in
the next few months starting August, when it will start to snow in Lapchi. They
need to have their homes repaired before that.
A
few of the Lapchi pilgrims who were rescued by the Lapchi association.
Lapchi villagers and monks seeking shelter
in self-made temporary homes in nearby caves