As aftershocks shook the house where he was writing last week, Rabindra Sitaula, program manager for Laguna Beach-based R Star Foundation, sent a progress report about supply deliveries to quake hit villages.
Sitaula had just come from Khampur, Bagultar, where he distributed tarps for temporary shelter to all the houses in the village. “We all are scared and feel uncertain about what’s next,” he wrote. Previously, R Star has provided women’s literacy classes, water filters and candle-making training to the women in Khampur Bagultar.
He signed off on May 12, just after a 5.5 aftershock hit the Dhading district of Nepal near Kathmandu, saying “I have to get out of the house… it is shaking too much.”
A magnitude 7.8 earthquake on April 25 caused extensive damage throughout the country, including the 48 villages in Nepal that the foundation has provided with goats over the past 10 years. Depleting the foundation’s remaining resources in Nepal, Sitaula delivered beans, rice, tea and sugar as well as heavy plastic sheeting for makeshift shelters to 600 people in two villages within days of the first quake.
More information is available at RStarFoundation.org.
