Friends of Nepal

Supporting blankets, food, and trucks to provide immediate relief to small villages in Sindhupalchowk, transitional shelter in Kavre.

A diverse group of friends that coalesced in the days after the quake, Friends of Nepal has moved from a high energy immediate self-organized response to larger scale targeted transport and distribution of supplies to many communities in impacted Sindhupalchok, Nuwakot and Dhadhing.

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Friends of Nepal Enters Phase 2 with Shelter in Sankhu

As we pass the two month mark for the first earthquake, Friends of Nepal's relief program has firmly entered its second phase. Located in the northwest of the valley, Friends of Nepal began providing temporary living shelters for a minimum 26 families in the Sankhu VDC.
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Freinds of Nepal Joins with Lincolcn School to Deliver Relief

On May 25th, Friends of Nepal joined hands with Lincoln School's 8th and 9th grade classes to provide 35 household buckets of emergency relief supplies to families in Sankhu.
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330 Household Packages Sent to Kartike-Gumba VDC

On May 9th, Friends of Nepal sent 330 household packages into the town of Kartike where neighboring communities walked several hours from Gumba VDC ward 7,8 to pick up relief material. Friends of Nepal-We Help Nepal volunteer and photographer, Surachet Pong along with our local contact Janden Dorje Lama, accompanied the distribution truck and were in Gumbathan when the second 7.3 magnitude earthquake occurred on May 12th, but thankfully returned safely back to Kathmandu on May 14th.
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The Story of Friends Nepal

Two days after a massive 7.8 earthquake devastated much of Nepal, about 30 friends in their 20s, who had grown up together in Kathmandu, knew they had to do something urgently. "It was almost a moral obligation”, said Anne McGuinness, 28, who like many of her friends has one parent from either Tibet or Nepal. "Because all our friends and relatives were safe, we felt we needed to help those less fortunate. We knew government help would be very slow."
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Friends of Nepal Sets Up Distribution Center in Fussball Stadium

Our team on the ground is rocking strong with a full on distribution center inside the Grassroots Recreational Center Fussball stadium. They are collecting, packaging, and distributing some of the first materials making it into Sindupalchowk and other districts.
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Update: Friends of Nepal - May 3rd, 2015

We currently have a group of 20 volunteers, and are staying in touch with communities in case they don’t get aid next week. To date, our relief efforts have have provided for 5,000 people.
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VIDEO Update: Yanik - May 2, 2015

So yesterday we managed to go to two villages of our friends in Sindhupalchowk. We got to reach the village and do the drop.
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Collection Points for Relief Materials- Status Update April 30th

To date, Friends of Nepal and our collective on the ground have collected, bought, and delivered several tons of supplies of rice and dahl and relief materials. They organized a helicopter yesterday, and have helped load four semi-trucks to go out into villages. The collective is 20 people strong on the ground, and they are collecting supplies all across Kathmandu.
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