By Beth O'Grady | Operations Specialist
As immediate needs were being addressed, staff from Tilganga worked with architectural students to develop temporary shelters for families who had lost their homes. With an early monsoon season approaching, Tilganga staff purchased and delivered corrugated sheets and building supplies to help community members erect temporary houses. Thanks to our generous donors, HCP has been able to fund direct material aid to relieve suffering due the earthquake disaster.
Through it all, the Tilganga Institute and its network of community eye centers and hospitals continued to provide eye care. Between April 1 and June 30, over 50,400 individuals received eye surgeries at TIO while 11,831 surgeries were performed at rural centers. In many cases the physical structures have been damaged. While assessments and repairs are underway, Tilganga has contracted with a local company to replace community eye centers in Manang, Dolakha, Rasuwa, Sindhu and Nuwakot with earthquake-resistant prefabricated buildings. HCP will be supporting this and otherefforts to add to the resiliency of our mission in Nepal. Many thanks to all who are supporting this relief and reconstruction initiative!
"We will not get back the lives we lost, but livelihoods can be restored. Historical monuments have been destroyed, but they can be rebuilt. The crisis is a huge loss to the economy, but we can create hundreds of thousands of jobs during reconstruction." - Dr. Sanduk Ruit on moving forward after the devastating earthquakes in Nepal.
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