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Hekate

(90,565 posts) Mon Apr 27, 2015, 08:29 PM Apr 2015

Help for Nepal: please consider Direct Relief International

Direct medical aid; ranked number 1 on Charity Navigator.

They are pledging their entire warehouse to Nepal, but the airport in Kathmandu can only handle so much tonnage per plane, so at the moment the supplies sent by DR are being hand-carried in from a cache of DR supplies located in India. Medical teams are on their way.

direct relief.org

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Help for Nepal: please consider Direct Relief International (Original Post) Hekate Apr 2015 OP

great idea. better than what happened in haiti. pansypoo53219 Apr 2015 #1

DRI was there already, as they have a "footprint" there. Unfortunately the docks were wrecked.... Hekate Apr 2015 #2

Selfie Hekate Apr 2015 #3

pansypoo53219

(20,955 posts)

1. great idea. better than what happened in haiti.

Reply to Hekate (Original post)

Mon Apr 27, 2015, 09:58 PM

Apr 2015

Hekate

(90,565 posts)

2. DRI was there already, as they have a "footprint" there. Unfortunately the docks were wrecked....

Reply to pansypoo53219 (Reply #1)

Mon Apr 27, 2015, 11:15 PM

Apr 2015

....at least in part, so the container-load aboard a ship was not able to be able to be unloaded due to the crane on the dock being out of commission. DRI had to send more, and they did.

Hekate

(90,565 posts)

3. Selfie

Reply to Hekate (Original post)

Tue Apr 28, 2015, 02:55 PM

Apr 2015

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