Precious rice!

Pinkey and Binod reflecting on the challenges ahead

We have been receiving regular updates from Pinkey, our HealthEd Connect representative in Nepal.  She and her husband are living in a tent due to the damage to their home.  Now that the banks have reopened, however, she has been able to access the money we wired to their account.  All of our health workers are safe but most are homeless.  Pinkey and her husband Binod have been valiantly working long hours to reach those in need.  Bags of rice, tents, medicines, masks, and electrolyte packets have now reached our health workers in the remote villages at the epicenter of the quake.  Everything is appreciated but the rice is greeted with jubilation!

Men taking supplies by motorbike as far as possible

Rice carried for hours beyond bike trails.