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UPDATE MAY 2021: Our fundraiser has re-opened as we make preparations to support the communities within our network with vital supplies during the second wave of the virus in South Asia.
THE BACK STORY
As soon as lockdown began in Nepal on the 24th of March 2020, the key objective for The Country That Shook was to get food to as many people as possible. A lot of Nepal’s population are daily wage workers who rely on a day to day payment for rent and food. As soon as everything closed that income stream stopped, and for many people the prospect of starvation was more real than the virus itself. So we have been fundraising since the beginning and using our networks on the ground to get food to the people who need it the most.
Our key connections are in different parts of the Kathmandu valley, two Himalayan villages, Baseri and Phujel, and Janakpur in the Terai.
“WITH NO SURPRISES WHAT WE SAW WAS VERY HEARTBREAKING. WE CAME ACROSS A BLIND WIDOWER WHO HAS BEEN HUNGRY FOR THE LAST 3 DAYS. WE FOUND A LABOR MAN WHO USED TO WORK IN CONSTRUCTION SITES VERY SORRY FOR HIS FAMILY THAT HE IS UNABLE TO WORK ANYMORE. A 35 YEAR OLD SINGLE MOTHER OF 2 KIDS WAS EXPRESSING HER GRIEF ABOUT THE FINANCIAL CRISIS CAUSED BY THE PANDEMIC.”

GANESH PANDEY,
KATHMANDU DISTRIBUTION APRIL 2020

“THE HANDS MASTERED FOR MAKING GLORIOUS TEMPLES AND SACRED STATUES ARE WORKLESS.THEIR STOMACHS THAT WERE FILLED UP WITH THE PRIDE OF HAVING INCREDIBLE MONUMENTS STAND ARE NOW HUNGRY. THE STUNNING WOODEN CRAFT AND BEAUTIFUL SACRED STATUES MAKERS ARE NOW IN TROUBLE.”

GANESH PANDEY,
PATAN DISTRIBUTION MAY 2020

Our fundraiser specifically for the Covid-19 crisis is still up and running and is full of updates about each distribution that we made. Visit it here.

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WHAT IS THE KEY LEARNING?

Kindness.

One of our Nepalese friends once said, “If I had been born in England, I could have been your brother. And if you had been born in Nepal, you could be my sister. We are no different deep down. We are family.”
And that essence is at the core of all that we do. No one chooses to be needy, this situation determines that and it’s up to us to see that we are all connected. We support people in the way that we hope all of humanity would support each other if they could.

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