Today I found out the devastating news about the 7.8 (Richter Scale) Earthquake that hit Nepal in the morning and having family living there scared me senseless, but thankfully they're all okay. However, I know that thousands of others in my position weren't as fortunate me since the death toll (at the current moment) is around 1,500.
That's so many lives! So many lives that have been cut off before they could finish naturally. So many lives that never got to be lived. So many lives that will be missed and mourned for. It's not just sad but totally tragic too.
It's been a while since I went to Nepal, and I only lived there when I was a baby but it's struck me how different it's going to be the next time I visit. Already, Nepal is one of the poorest countries in the world and this natural disaster is not going to help that at all, but before the devastation it was developing and it seemed to be prospering year by year. The fact that thousands of buildings, homes and monuments have been turned to debris by the Earthquake completely destroys all the hard work made by the Nepali people.
On its own Nepal won't be able to survive this catastrophe, as an LEDC it needs all the help and support that it can get.
I urge you to help out and donate.
Oxfam (GB)
Oxfam (USA)
Current Age: 6,343 days old
(People helping out to clear the rubble in Kathmandu's Durbar Square)
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