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Couldn't resist making a conceptsketch of my trollie in between commission ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Shristi

Meet Shristi

Shristi is fourteen years old. Before the earthquake in April 2015 Shristi faced many challenges in her young life. As if being born into poverty, a female in a male dominated culture wasn’t bad enough Shristi was born with Downs Sydrome. Any disability is yet another insurmountable problem for a family to face in their efforts to survive in the harsh culture of rural Nepal. Shristi did though have a close loving extended family, she did have a comfortable home. Then came the earthquake.

The family home was destroyed. Over six months later and this is where the family are now living.....

The worst impact of the earthquake though is not the visible damage to buildings, eventually they will be rebuilt, it is that on top of everything else Shristi has been left severely traumatised by the earthquake and the aftershocks that followed it.  It is not easy to see Shristi’s PTSD but perhaps a little easier than in the many, many other children who have also been left traumatised and unable to get treatment, unable to even have their symptoms recognised.

Shristi attends a development centre for children in her village of Salyantar in the Dhading District of Nepal. The centre is supported/funded by Kidasha (www.kidasha.org) so Shristi has at least some of her education, health and welfare needs met - no where near what she needs but infinitely more that if Kidasha did not exist. 

One thing I have learnt during this project is that it is the smaller focussed charities that achieve real long term impact to those worst affected by disasters. If you would consider helping the many children in Nepal so disadvantaged by this years earthquakes please take a look at www.Kidasha.org.

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Jogbani customs clears 125 fuel tankers

A hundred and twenty five tankers have entered Nepal through Jogbani customs at Biratnagar on Friday topping the tally of single day entry of fuel haulers till date.

The news improves everyday. The fuel crisis is easing very much due to a deal done with the Chinese breaking what has been a monopoly for fuel supply to Nepal held by India. The news means two things for me - first of all it means the extensive travel between relief projects I am planning becomes feasible, secondly my expense should be reduced both in terms of travel cost and in “negotiating” as fuel shortage won’t hold as a reason to hike the prices!

I spoke for some time yesterday with a volunteer recently returned from Nepal working with one of the charities I will be working with. Got some great tips and advice.

Only five more sleeps until I am on the plane - lots to do between then and now.