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Earthquake relief effort by GSTLNC After much discussion within GSTLNC team during telephone conference calls at the end of May

and beginning of June, regarding the utilization of money raised as part of Help Nepal’s

Earthquake victims, a decision was made to send money to GSTLNC outgoing President Ashim

Lamichanne, who is currently in Nepal, in phases through MoneyGram service. The team also

wanted Ashim to propose a plan before sending the money to Nepal. Ashim’s plan to distribute

relief materials to about 350 families in Dhading Aagingchok ward number 1, 2 and 3, with the

help from local volunteers from Pokhara and some donation from local communities in Pokhara

was approved by the GSTLNC team.

Ashim’s initial proposal and estimate dated May 7, 2015:

Hi All,

I can't thank you all enough for your generous support during this difficult time. We

have finalized the location to travel and distribute relief materials. I have talked with

several volunteers in the last few days and Aagingchok seems to be an area where we

could go and help the affected families directly. I have also found out that taking relief

materials to a place where we do not have local contact is very difficult. We have a

local personal from Aagingchok who will travel with us and help us distribute the relief

material.

Once we have gathered all the materials from the list below, we will load all the

materials in a truck and head towards Dhading. We are planning on leaving Pokhara

on Friday early afternoon and returning on Saturday.

Here is a list of materials we are planning to take with us.

Renting one truck- cost about 25-30k

Tents 200 pieces 75k

Rice 10 kg bag 350 bags 150k

Dal 2 kg bag 350 bags 70k

Oil 5L 350 100k

Rope 5k

Chiura 5kg bag 350 bags 70k

Our preliminary estimates for all the materials above came close to 495-500k,

however I will have more accurate figure tomorrow morning. I will send you a formal

bill with either VAT or PAN number. Along with the above materials, we are also

bringing clothes and basic medical supplies with us which we team here will personally

fund. I will keep you all posted on the progress and once again your help will be highly

appreciated.

Thanks

Ashim Lamichhane

Map taken from google map - https://www.google.com/maps/place/Aginchonk+Koot+Dhading/@28.321903,84.8158093,8z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0000000000000000:0xd63b57f9b3249683?hl=en

Initial request of help came from the following person from the village. While he was not living

in the village at the time of the earthquake, he witness the aftermath when he went to his

village immediately after the earthquake.

We also received a request for help from Hari Pant, President of “Dhadhing-Pokhara Samparka

Samiti, Aaginchok Ekai”.

Initial amount of US $4000 was dispatched to Ashim Lamichanne via Bharat Kandel through

MoneyGram on _______. The receipt below includes $30 charge by MoneyGram for sending

money to Nepal. (Note: Sender’s address and phone number is blocked for privacy)

On May 5th 2015, Ashim Lamichanne headed to Aagingchok Dhading with 11 volunteers from

Pokhara to help the victims and provide relief materials:

Here is Ashim’s email dated May 16th with brief summary of the event:

11 volunteers headed towards Dhading on May 5th 2015 to help victims and provide

relief materials.

We had one large truck full of relief materials and a SUV. Total 350 sacks.

Volunteers paid for the large truck rental. We provides relief materials to Dhading

Aagingchok ward number 1, 2 & 3. We gave medical supplies to the health post and all

the clothing supplies were sent to remote village 8 hours from Aagingchok. With the

help of local contact we were able to distribute relief materials in a systematic order.

They provided us with a list of people in each ward and we distributed a sack of relief

materials to a family.

Each sack contain the following materials:

Rice 15 kg

Chana- 2 kg

Sugar- 1 kg

Chiura- 2 kg

Salt- 1 pack

Tea- 1 pack

Tooth paste- 1 tube

Soap- 2

Noodles- 1 pack

GSTLNC expenses

Banner- 500

Food- 1640

Tea- 200

Food- 3250

Snacks- 785

SUV rental- 12000

Relief materials cost - 490,000

Total expenses: 5,08,375

BG hospital, Youth club & volunteers expenses:

Clothing - 87000

Medical supplies - 6000

Truck rental - 30,000

Bill from Ashim (the prices listed are in Nepalese rupees):

Pictures from the relief effort:

Here is the list of people from Aagingchok, Dhading who received the relief materials from

GSTLNC:

Ward no. 1:

Ward no. 2:

Ward no. 3:

Miscellaneous list:

Since initial dispatched amount was not enough to cover the expense plus it was discovered

through the volunteer team in Nepal that Ashim and his team had missed 11 families in the

relief distribution area, added amount of US $1173 was dispatched to Ashim Lamichanne via

Bharat Kandel using MoneyGram on 6/10/2015. The receipt below includes $20 charge by

MoneyGram for sending money to Nepal. (Note: Sender’s address and phone number is

blocked for privacy)

In the video below, an elderly person in Aagingchok, Dhading expresses his gratitude to

GSTLNC and the relief team:

Loose interpretation of the video:

I was born in 2095 BS. (I think he meant to say 1995). My name is Rabinath Thapaliya. I am in

Aaginchok ward no. 1. My name is Rabinath Thapaliya. I did not see the earthquake in 1990 but

what I see today is that everyone here do not have food to eat, they do not have place to stay

or sleep. This situation for them is really bad. Anything that you provide us kindly will go to

these people. So far we have not seen any of our elected government parliament member, any

ministers or any Neta come to our community. No one has given us any hope. No one has said

anything good or bad. However we have received few buckets of rice and other things here and

there by public like you. We have been surviving on these things given to us by you and the

others. We are all outside in open ground. We are sitting and sleeping under trees. There are

no tents, not enough food and nothing to wear for these people. There are sitting under trees.

Just recently a few have received few tents from public and some are living under these tents.

Whatever food we had is under the pile of mud and ruble in our houses. It is really bad in here.

- Report prepared by Bharat Kandel