Nepal Flood Update: Vulnerable Populations

Our volunteer health workers in Nepal have been tirelessly working to alleviate illnesses brought by contaminated flood waters. Children and the elderly are particularly vulnerable to fevers and diarrhea which can be perilous to life and long-term health if left untreated.  HealthEd Connect volunteers attend to the sick with simple but crucial medical tools, medicines, and most importantly, they teach villagers how to avoid illness with education about sanitation and water purification. 

  

Nepal Flood Update: Spreading the Love

​Village children receive emergency aid and a lesson on how to stay safe and healthy
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In the midst of health risks and frequent rains, our Nepalese volunteers journey to small villages that have not yet received aid. While the emergency food, clean water, and health training they provide is absolutely crucial to these children, the simple act of human kindness and love is just as precious! Some of these children have lost family members in the flood, others have lost their homes and belongings, and most have lost food and clean water. Imagine the comfort these children feel knowing that someone cares enough to come from far away to help them! 

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Nepal Flood Update

As we receive reports from Biratnagar, Nepal, we continue to be amazed at the way the Nepalese people reach out to one another in times of crisis. The spirit of volunteerism seems to know no socio-economic or religious boundaries as our volunteers work endless hours providing emergency care to their flood-ravaged community.  They hold daily "health camps" to pass out food, educate families regarding ways to avoid illness, and organize clean-up teams. 

​Forty children from the slum area around Biratnagar gathered to receive emergency aid in the form of dry food. 

More than 90 volunteers from around the city gathered yesterday to assist the government in cleaning up dead animals and refuse left behind by the flood. 

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Nepal Flood Update

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A mother in Nepal receives emergency food in her home.
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Our devoted HealthEd Connect volunteer, Sangeeta Malla, has been providing constant care for her community since the flood over a week ago in southern Nepal. In addition to providing emergency food and many forms of medical care, she is planning village-wide trainings on water purification techniques and a clean-up day to remove the many dead animals and livestock that create a health hazard. Even though the flood has receded, there is so much left to be done! Sangeeta keeps up her energy, enthusiasm, and optimism by focusing on gratitude, and tells us via email, 

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I am so thankful to Healthedconnect to fulfill my vision among homeless, poor and sick people.

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Even though the situation is very tough for us to handle I got some relief by providing clothes  to women, children and men too and my heart is so much satisfied and it happened just because of prayer and financial support from all of you.

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Clean Water for Nepalese Villagers

​A shy village family receives a water purification system

​Contaminated water presents a serious danger after a flood. Inexpensive portable water purification systems have been​ distributed by HealthEd Connect volunteers to the areas most devastated by the flood in Nepal. Outbreaks of disease can be dramatically minimized if solutions are provided for clean drinking water quickly. Kudos to our volunteers in the field who have been working day and night to prevent illness in their communities!

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Medicines Have Arrived!!

  
​Thanks to our generous donors, medicines and medical tools have now reached the flood-ravaged area in Nepal! Villagers crowd around HealthEd Connect volunteer, Sangeeta Malla, as she treats them for the multitude of injuries and illnesses caused by navigating floodwaters.  Innumerable sharp objects and bacterias lie hidden in the murky waters that can lead to infection and dysentery, often causing the death toll to rise even after the initial crisis has passed.  Sangeeta and other volunteers have been working day and night since the flood to alleviate current and potential dangers for her community.

​Triple antibiotic ointment is a simple but indispensable product to prevent dangerous infection.

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Water, water everywhere....but not a drop to drink!

Informative photos are starting to arrive from our colleagues in Nepal, showing the devastating effects the recent flood has had on homes, belongings, crops, and lives. A think coating of mud fills every crevice where the water has receded and has contaminated drinking water. 

The inside of a typical Nepalese home swathed in bacteria-laden mud.

Paradoxically, water, the very thing that caused this destruction, is now desperately needed.  People are already experiencing dangerous diarrhea cause by ingesting unclean water. HealthEd Connect volunteers will be holding a 'health camp' to teach her community how to sanitize filthy water, as well as how to make a homemade treatment for diarrhea using salt and sugar. 

​Disheartened villagers sit on the roof of their former home, trying to figure out what to do next.

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Michelle Mahlik

BOD, HealthEd Connect

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