South African humanitarian mission Gift of the Givers will continue to supply aid to earthquake victims in Nepal after a second earthquake rocked the country on Tuesday. A 7.4 magnitude quake, with an epicentre near Mount Everest, caused several buildings in the capital Kathmandu to collapse. Gift of the Givers[…]
A deadly magnitude 7.3 earthquake has struck Nepal, two weeks after a devastating quake killed more than 8,000 people in the Himalayan nation, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) has reported. Officials said so far, at least 42 people had been killed and 1,117 injured in the new quake in[…]
Only a fraction of the emergency funds the United Nations has requested for victims of Nepal’s earthquake have come in, UN officials have said, as crises around the world put unprecedented demands on international donors. Of the $415 million requested by the UN and its partners last week, just $22.4[…]
Nepal’s Armed Police Force (APF) has revealed that as many as three South Africans may still be missing in earthquake-ravaged Nepal, with the official death toll rising to 7 493. APF Deputy Inspector General Baburam Pandey said that according to their statistics from a central co-ordination centre, the three were[…]
The specialised South African search and rescue team that scrambled to aid earthquake-struck Nepal, will leave the capital of Kathmandu on Tuesday night. The team, made up of paramedics, firefighters and urban search and rescue technicians has been in the country for a week. The group, funded by humanitarian aid[…]
Police, soldiers and volunteers have launched a major search operation in the remote Langtang region of the Nepalese Himalayas to look for up to 600 trekkers and support staff who have been missing since an earthquake of 7.8 magnitude hit the south Asian country 10 days ago. The death toll[…]
A South African couple were rescued and have found safety with Gift of the Givers (GOTG) in Kathmandu on Saturday after going for days without shelter or food. Speaking to VOC from Nepal, the relief agency’s founder, Dr Imtiyaaz Sooliman said when Mike Sherman and Kate Ahrends were rescued they[…]
A Pietermaritzburg surgeon and veteran missionary sees his work in quake-struck Nepal as his obligation to the human race. Northdale orthopaedic surgeon Liven Meneses-Turino, part of a specialist medical team from Gift of the Givers, said it was a calling. “I have been a missionary from the time I was[…]
Rescuers have pulled a 101-year-old man and three women alive from his ruined home a week after Nepal’s earthquake claimed at least 7,250 lives, as the government warned that the death toll will climb “much higher”. Funchu Tamang was rescued from the rubble of his house with only minor injuries[…]
A specialised South African search and rescue team is set to deploy to a remote Nepali village yet to receive aid from the outside world after last week’s earthquake. The team, made up of urban search and rescue technicians and paramedics, will make the arduous journey by bus to the[…]
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