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Who controls Nepal's helicopters?

Mon, 2015-05-04 21:27 — mike kraft

FOREIGN POLICY   by Freddie Wilson                                                         May 2, 2015
The country has just a handful of private helicopters, which are crucial to earthquake rescue operations. But are foreign trekkers the only ones who’ve benefitted?
In the wake of the earthquake, it became immediately clear that choppers would be crucial to lifesaving rescue operations. Landslides have besieged Nepal, wrecking many sections of its already tenuous road system. People are trapped in remote villages — or what remain of them — while supplies are bottlenecked at the Tribhuvan International Airport, in Kathmandu. “The planning over many years seems to have failed to take account of the fact that hard to reach places — most of those badly hit — would remain hard to reach, after the quake,” wrote John Bevan, who has worked with the U.N. in Nepal and Haiti, in an email from Kathmandu.

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Nepal Asks Foreign Rescuers to Leave as Hopes Fade

Mon, 2015-05-04 11:03 — mike kraft

NEW YORK TIMES By May 4, 2015

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APAN - Nepal HADR - Community for Nepal HADR Shared Situational Awareness

Sat, 2015-05-02 15:32 — Kathy Gilbeaux

 

community.apan.org/pacom-hadr/nepal_hadr

The All Partners Access Network (APAN) is the Unclassified Information Sharing Service (UISS) for the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD).

In response to the devastating earthquake on 25 APR 2015, APAN has created the Nepal HADR Community. Join this public community now to collaborate and share information with other members supporting the response effort, including members of the U.S. Department of Defense, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), other government agencies, and non-governmental organizations.

CLICK HERE - Nepal HADR

(ALSO SEE RELATED INFORMATION IN THE LINK BELOW)
https://community.apan.org/hadr/default.aspx

 

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CFE-DMHA - 2015 Nepal Earthquake Crisis Site

Sat, 2015-05-02 14:40 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Santosh Dahal

cfe-dmha.org

The CFE-DMHA Disaster Information Report provides a daily analysis of various information sources reporting on the 2015 Nepal Earthquake effort.   

CFE's Disaster Management Reference Handbooks provide a baseline of information regarding countries most prone to disasters. A standardized assessment methodology with an operational perspective provides readers a general understanding of a nation's disaster management capability and vulnerability.

CLICK HERE - Disaster Information Reports and Reference Handbooks - Additional Information

For more information on the response effort, go to the Nepal Earthquake HADR Community on APAN

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Logistics - Kathmandu Airport - Nepal

Sat, 2015-05-02 09:39 — Kathy Gilbeaux
Olivier Brandner, left, loads supplies into MSF's mobile storage unit at the airport's Humanitarian Forwarding Area.
Photo: Obi Anyadike/IRIN
 
irinnews.org - by Obinna Anyadike
May 1, 2015
 
Regarding the logistics hub at Kathmandu's airport, the procedure for requesting storage space is online and simple, and even easier if you are an agency or NGO registered with the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, a discreet vetting.
 
Input the details of your cargo, tonnage, and whether transport is required (WFP can provide inland delivery) - and then submit the form. Once WFP confirms it can accept the consignment, it takes over.
 
There is no concern of supplies stacking up in the forwarding area, uncollected. “This is an emergency, people want to get it out as soon as possible,” Beaumont said.
 
Inside the logistics hub at Kathmandu's airport
 
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Update of Earthquake in Nepal

Wed, 2015-04-29 13:02 — Santosh Dahal

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Unbelievable devastating 7.9 rector scale earthquake hit in Nepal on 25
April 2015 and destroyed of property and loss of human
lives, infrastructures, cultural and religion heritages within a minute.
The death toll has reached 5,026. Over 10,227 people have been reported
injured. Rescue efforts are under way. Most of the people of affected areas
are staying outside of home because of fear.  People from the worst hit
districts of Sindhupalchok, Nuwakot, Rasuwa, Gorkha and Dhading which are
surrounding districts of capital Kathmandu, have complained of delayed aid.

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Google and Facebook Help Nepal Earthquake Survivors and Contacts Connect

Tue, 2015-04-28 16:17 — mike kraft

NEW YORK  TIMES  by Karen Zraick                                                                   April 28, 2015

In decades past, after a large-scale natural disaster, the people affected and their friends and loved ones often struggled to reconnect. In New York City after the Sept. 11 attacks, for example, phone lines were disrupted and people resorted to pinning missing-persons posters around the city.

But now technology and social media are transforming the ways individuals and organizations regroup after disasters and allowing people quicker access to information.

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