HDFA is working with local partners at PHASE Nepal and the WFP (UN World Food Program) to deliver immediate and medium term rebuilding assistance. PHASE Nepal is a well respected professional organisation with existing projects within the most earthquake affected areas of Gorkha and Sindulpalchok. It is essential to work with a well connected, informed professional NGO and allow Nepalese to rebuild Nepal in coming months and years. We aim to step in when asked by the communities most in need and discuss with them their specific needs and requirements. HDFA presentatives are present in Kathmandu to observe, assist and advise that aid is ending up in the right hands.
Our partners in Nepal - PHASE Nepal (and larger UN WFP) have already commenced relief work support but further funds are needed for the enormous task at hand. More funds are required urgently to continue the support for 1,000’s of families who has lost their homes.
World Food Program: “Nepal’s unique geography, rain, aftershocks and landslides means many affected communities are inaccessible by road. For the most remote and hardest-hit areas, like the ones in Gorkha district, the quake’s epicentre, helicopters currently provide the only transport option. Helicopters are an expensive way to deliver aid, costing as much as seven to eight times more than road transport, so we must once again call upon the generosity of the entire global donor community to support the WFP response effort. “
We also foresee ongoing food challenges for Nepal's farming community, which comprises up to two-thirds of the country's 27 million people. The earthquake destroyed seed stocks for the mid-May rice sowing season, as well as grains kept dry in stone storage huts that have now been razed to the ground.
If farmers miss this month's planting season, they will be unable to harvest rice - Nepal's staple food - until late 2016!
1.4 million earthquake survivors in Nepal need help now and in the future.
