Nepal is overwhelmed by COVID-19 at the moment. There are no more hospital beds, medicine or oxygen. With the country in lockdown, daily wage earners have no work and so cannot buy food and they and their families are going hungry. This project will raise money to provide protective equipment, emergency food parcels for the children, families and communities we support. Everything we can do to keep the people of Nepal safe and stop the spread of Coronavirus will make a real difference.
Coronavirus is running rampant through Nepal at the moment. The hospitals have run out of beds, medicine and oxygen to treat the disease. Rural communities and health clinics have no PPE equipment, sanitiser or oxygen and no money to buy any. The government lockdown means the millions of daily wage earners cannot go out to work and so they and their families are left without any food.
This project will provide PPE, hand wash, sanitiser, infrared thermometer guns and fingertip pulse oximeters to 100 isolated health clinics in the three rural municipalities we support. We will also provide 500 emergency food parcels, containing rice, lentils, oil, salt and soap, that will feed 500 poor families for a month in these rural areas.
This project could help save thousands of lives - not just from deaths due to coronavirus, but also from starvation caused by the lockdowns and lack of work. It could also prevent many children from being trafficked. Providing food and supporting the local communities will prevent heart-breaking choices that the parents or the children themselves may have to make.
