Our assigned task today was to scout an area in the eastern part of Nepal at 60km from the chinese border, to find out the situation in villages where help has not arrived yet...
Yes it might sound strange that two foreigners would do that, but me and Jonnhy, an enthusiastic and ambitious irish guy met at the hospital, have joined a group of local nepali, met at the hospital, that are trying to make things work instead of waiting for their corrupted government.
I am not giving up, I am trying to accept that it's not a easy situation to handle and I am promising to give my best even if it's a very difficult task right now; our team, illegally and disturbingly followed by a troupe of a indian TV, was a truck with food and plastic shelters and a car with volunteers..
The very badly damaged from the earthquake road took us after 3 hours to a town where two big rivers meet and that's where we were dropped off, with some medicinals in our backpacks and the mental strenght to get as much as we can out of the villagers, there was the option hiking to some of them but the heat and the mobile phone and the meeting of some helpful people stopped us..
What we found out is a country with a chicken without head organization and where the upset militars were apologising with us for it, a country that is receiving plenty of funds but that most likely will end up far from the necessities of the population, (at times) a little compassionate and little community minded society that it's not supporting the people that really require assistance right now.
Nepal as India has his casts and of course in events like this is where you see the real difference amongst them...the Sudra, the lowest cast people, though, are getting annoyed and aggressive...
Also because this is the majority of people I have been coming across in the hospital where I have been helping a little bit and where I have met the most tragic part of this catastrophe so far..
A lot of village people in their traditional outfits, mainly kids and elderly, some of them arrived a little too late to the hospital and maybe paying the price of poor education, have experienced amputation of arts just because they left their wounds or broken legs get infected...
Nepali young people are trying their best and I am here to sustain their will even if for a little time!
Yes it might sound strange that two foreigners would do that, but me and Jonnhy, an enthusiastic and ambitious irish guy met at the hospital, have joined a group of local nepali, met at the hospital, that are trying to make things work instead of waiting for their corrupted government.
I am not giving up, I am trying to accept that it's not a easy situation to handle and I am promising to give my best even if it's a very difficult task right now; our team, illegally and disturbingly followed by a troupe of a indian TV, was a truck with food and plastic shelters and a car with volunteers..
The very badly damaged from the earthquake road took us after 3 hours to a town where two big rivers meet and that's where we were dropped off, with some medicinals in our backpacks and the mental strenght to get as much as we can out of the villagers, there was the option hiking to some of them but the heat and the mobile phone and the meeting of some helpful people stopped us..
What we found out is a country with a chicken without head organization and where the upset militars were apologising with us for it, a country that is receiving plenty of funds but that most likely will end up far from the necessities of the population, (at times) a little compassionate and little community minded society that it's not supporting the people that really require assistance right now.
Nepal as India has his casts and of course in events like this is where you see the real difference amongst them...the Sudra, the lowest cast people, though, are getting annoyed and aggressive...
Also because this is the majority of people I have been coming across in the hospital where I have been helping a little bit and where I have met the most tragic part of this catastrophe so far..
A lot of village people in their traditional outfits, mainly kids and elderly, some of them arrived a little too late to the hospital and maybe paying the price of poor education, have experienced amputation of arts just because they left their wounds or broken legs get infected...
Nepali young people are trying their best and I am here to sustain their will even if for a little time!
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