NEPAL HELPLINE (Satis Shroff)

Freiburger Nepalese Association & Satis Shroff

NEPAL HELPLINE: We in Freiburg also did the same with candles this evening at the Augustinerplatz (5pm) to remember the Nepalese and foreign visitors who lost their lives in Nepal due to the earthquake recently. May their souls rest in peace. The Nepalese students and residents of Freiburg gathered around three tables with information of the works of the Freiburger Nepalese Association​ and donations for the quake victims were invited. We would like to thank the people who donated. There was even a bride who gathered money from her wedding guests for Nepal, instead of going out to drink with them, and told us that we should pray for her long life. We assured her we'd do that.   --- Satis Shroff's Zeitgeistliterature​ & the FNA

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NEPAL HELPLINE: According to the United Nations, the desire to donate has decreased. Only 6,5 % of the needed sum for UNO Help Organisations have been received. This was stated by the UNO-Office for Catastrophe Help (OCHA). 356 million euros are needed.
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LANGTANG: Three tourists had ordered a helicopter to get themselves out of Langtang because they had a mobile and money but none of them had a heart for the suffering and injured Nepalese from Langtang. But the chopper pilot was persuaded by the Nepalese to take the injured Nepalese to the capital, instead of the healthy tourists who were out for a good time trekking in Nepal, according to Reuters.

One of the passengers was a small child with both legs broken and needed emergency surgical help. If the Nepalese hadn't intervened, the tourists would have left Langtang without helping anyone. Money makes the world go round,eh? I didn't mention that there was a brawl. This is just an example of the two types of help in the mountainous state which was also mentioned by Reinhold Messner. In an emergency the really injured and traumatised patients need help and have medical priority. It might be mentioned that most of the Nepalese helicopters were used in the Khumbu area to transport Everest-tourists, who could pay with traveller's cheques and dollars and not the many Nepalese in Sindhupalchowk and other areas of quake devastation, and later Langtang Valley.
-MY SCHWARZWALD DIARY - Satis Shroff

h, LANGTANG (Satis Shroff)
Langtang Valley can be reached from Kathmandu by traversing along the Trisuli river valley and further to small picturesque Nepalese hamlets such as: Betrawati, Dharapani, Ramche, Thare, Bokejhung, Bhrugu, Munga and finally Syabrubensi, for where the Langtang Valley begins. Most of the trekkers head for the village of Langtang, which lies at an elevation of 3,500m, and another village is Kyanjing (3,850m). These two villages lie in a wide arid valley, and has woodland and meadows: a trekker's paradise.
But at the moment the beautiful Valley and town of Langtang lies under 10,000 tonnes of snow, earth and stones that have rolled down. 'Langtang Valley is no longer what it was and doesn't exist,' according to Tulsi Prasad Gautam, chief of tourism in Kathmandu. In the middle of the valley lay the village of Langtang.
'The village has been demolished by the earthquake,' said civil servant Gautam Rimal. There were 60 houses which have been buried under the debris.' According to Rimal it is impossible to dig up all the corpses.
The rescue-teams have already dug out 100 bodies and are searching for another hundred. The president of the Nepalese Trekking Agency Association Ramesh Dhamala said: 'At least 600 tourists and Nepalese are missing in the Langtang area.
Two German female backpackers in their twenties, Leonie and Nina, are missing, and also 110 other tourists. The Nepalese police have made a list with the names of the missing tourists and published it. The two German tourists, as well as the majority of the trekkers are missing in Langtang Valley, which lies 60km north of Kathmandu.
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Langtang Valley can be reached from Kathmandu by traversing along the Trisuli river valley and further to small picturesque Nepalese hamlets such as: Betrawati, Dharapani, Ramche, Thare, Bokejhung, Bhrugu, Munga and finally Syabrubensi, for where the Langtang Valley begins. Most of the trekkers head for the village of Langtang, which lies at an elevation of 3,500m, and another village is Kyanjing (3,850m). These two villages lie in a wide arid valley, and has woodland and meadows: a trekker's paradise.

But at the moment the beautiful Valley and town of Langtang lies under 10,000 tonnes of snow, earth and stones that have rolled down. 'Langtang Valley is no longer what it was and doesn't exist,' according to Tulsi Prasad Gautam, chief of tourism in Kathmandu. In the middle of the valley lay the village of Langtang.

'The village has been demolished by the earthquake,' said civil servant Gautam Rimal. There were 60 houses which have been buried under the debris.' According to Rimal it is impossible to dig up all the corpses.

The rescue-teams have already dug out 100 bodies and are searching for another hundred. The president of the Nepalese Trekking Agency Association Ramesh Dhamala said: 'At least 600 tourists and Nepalese are missing in the Langtang area.

Two German female backpackers in their twenties, Leonie and Nina, are missing, and also 110 other tourists. The Nepalese police have made a list with the names of the missing tourists and published it. The two German tourists, as well as the majority of the trekkers are missing in Langtang Valley, which lies 60km north of Kathmandu.