Helping Those In Need
New Danger for Quake Survivors
By David Darg
Operation Blessing International
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Georgette Knuckles
The 700 Club
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CBN.com —The Operation Blessing team in Nepal continues to press deeper into unreached territory in search of communities in need. More than a week after the quake, there are still villages that have received no aid. And Operation Blessing is sending convoys of trucks into the hardest hit Sindhupalchowk region.
Just a few miles from the border with Tibet, we learned of a mountaintop community in urgent need. But to get there, we had to travel on treacherous roads that have been damaged by landslides. The road became so bad that our teams had to rebuild them in certain places.
“Right now we’re on a road that was taken up by a landslide, and our team has to make repairs as we go,” reports David Darg, Vice President of Operation Blessing International. “The trucks are inching forward and they’re shoving rocks behind the wheels so it doesn’t roll backwards. Now we literally have to push this truck up certain sections of the road where it’s collapsed from landslides.”
With more than six tons of food supplies on board, it was slow going. Operation Blessing reached a section of road that was so badly damaged in the landslide, that even with the help from the Nepalese police, we just couldn’t pass. So the rice and other foods were unloaded and we had to make the rest of the trip in smaller pickup trucks.
We ascended another four and half thousand feet, and after eight hours of trying, we finally reached the village. Every single home was destroyed in this community. And many of the villagers looked tired and weak. But there was a sense of relief. For the one hundred and twenty families that live here, help had finally arrived.
We provided an electronic chlorinator to purify the water and the villagers were thankful. We followed one family as they took the food Operation Blessing gave them down the mountain and into the wreckage of their home. The mother, whose name is Prima Chowma, told us how she’s been struggling to feed her two children and was grateful that Operation Blessing came. She now fears what her family will do with the monsoon season fast approaching.
Prima and all of the villagers living here are from the lowest, untouchable class of Nepalese society and feared they would never get any help.
Not only did we bring help, Operation Blessing will be returning to this community to bring more relief in the coming days and look for ways to help them recover from this tragedy.
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