Update 3 May 2015

UPDATE 03.05.2015

On April 29 SAR DOGS Nepal reached the village Bhachchowk at 11pm near Kharibot in Gorkha, immediately set up tents and met with 18 Pokhara para glider pilots to discuss the situation. It was raining terribly during the time they established the camp and they got literally soaked.

On April 30 they split up in 2 teams. Team A met with the secretary of Kharibot VDC (Hari Pun) and medical professionals from that area to coordinate. Team B researched Kharibot. Many houses are collapsed, including the health post. Our people helped the local pharmacist Subash Duwadi to dig up lost medicine with a total value of 400.000,- Rupees.

Mostly affected are Ward no. 2 and no. 5. 10 persons in Ward no. 2 are reported injured, 1 person is reported dead. 3 injured people were found by SAR DOGS Nepal, all 3 were transferred by helicopter for further treatment.

Update 1 May 2015

UPDATE 01.05.2015 - 16:30pm(NPT)

Today we were able to send our first load of relief materials to from Pokhara Airport with the help of an army helicopter to our camp near Kahribot and to the hamlet of Kasigaon in upper Gorkha.

Karna Dura (left) at Pokhara Airport, in charge of dispatching relief goods to our camp.

Update 30 April 2015

Update 30.4.2015 - 7:00am(NPT)

Yesterday (29 April 2015) our SAR DOGS teams have traveled by jeeps under better weather conditions to Gorkha. It was difficult to find 4 willing drivers to go into the heavy damaged area. They departed from our office in Pokhara around noon.

Today (30 April 2015) the weather is still very bad. It started raining around 4:30am and this condition will persist through the next 24 hours. Thunderstorms over Kaski Lamjung and Gorkha districts will delay all other relief rescue helicopter flights again. The Nepal Army evacuates wounded villagers to Pokhara with their heavy load helicopters since yesterday.

This had caused another half day of lost chances to find living people underneath the rubble of their collapsed houses and under the many land and rock slides alongside the way up to the many wide spread hamlets and small villages around our target area Kharibot. The time window to find people alive with our dogs closes rapidly now.

Stay tuned for more to come a.s.a.p.

Message to families and friends of foreign trekkers who went out of touch with their loved ones during the 2015 earthquake.

It has proven futile to us to entertain the hundreds of requests of worried relatives.
We kindly ask all those who lost contact to their friends or family members to register with the following website:

https://google.org/personfinder/2015-nepal-earthquake/

Kind regards - The SARDOGS Nepal team

EARTHQUAKE AFTERMATH RELIEF

We have dispatched
our volunteer healthworkers and 9 SARDOG teams!
Please help them to stay on the Job!

You can donate to:

Rettungshunde für Nepal e.V.
Account Number: 205006825
Bank Name: Sparkasse Giessen
BLZ: 513 500 25
IBAN: DE48513500250205006825
BIC/SWIFT-CODE: SKGIDE5F

Rettungshunde fuer Nepal e.V. is a German charity that will forward the funds to us very fast with Western Union.

Our first disaster relief operation focuses on the many small hamlets and villages around Kharibot west of Barpak and the surrounding villages, approximately 70 km east of Pokhara, very close to the epicenter and severely devastated.