Nepal Earthquake Relief Efforts

63 Families in Devastated Kalika Village, Nepal Receive Much Needed Food

Traveling on a dusty, unpaved, very rough road we arrived in Kalika Village with a busload of rice. Yes, a busload. When I asked the people helping me why they have to use a bus to transport our rice they told me that these buses climb these roads with heavy loads like no other vehicle…

183 Families Receive Urgently Needed Food Supplies

We are continuing to reach hundreds of families in more and more villages devastated by the disastrous earthquake in Nepal, and provide them with urgently needed food supplies and roofing material. Recently we reached two difficult to reach villages ravaged by the earthquake, the villages of Lele and Champi. Very little help had arrived in…

32 Families Receive Roofing Material and Financial Aid

?Dear Venerable Bhanteji, All the families in my village are very happy to receive roofing material and financial help from you. Since earthquake this is the biggest help we have received. Now we all can build our temporary house. We are very grateful to you. Thank you very much.? – Bina Nagarkoli We were glad…

May 28, 2015 Relief Mission to Dolakha, Nepal

In a mission I was privileged to organize, with the assistance of Nepalese Buddhist monk Tapassi, we have distributed urgently needed food supplies and sleeping mats to seventy families in Nepal’s Dolakha region. Families continue the difficult work of rebuilding their lives after the devastating April, 2015 Ghorka earthquake, the worst natural disaster in Nepal…

Temporary Home for Five More Families

We have constructed and handed over a temporary home for five more families. They all lost their homes to the earthquake and were living in tents that were not comfortable. I got the request from one of our monks to help them. I visited the families and saw their terrible living conditions and immediately made…

Kindergarten School Building

A letter from the Principal:

Dear Venerable Bhante Wimala,

We, the families of Yasodhara Secondary School, would like to extend our heartfelt gratitude to you for constructing two kindergarten classrooms in our school.

Getting a Well Cleaned Up

It is hard to imagine that a small thing can turn out to be such a challenging task. Yet you must not give up even a small task when you believe in it until you see the end of results. The day we got the well cleaned I felt a great satisfaction. Water is life.…

Relief Goods Arrive in Palate Village

We provided 45 families, consisting of more than 175 family members, with urgently needed relief goods including clothing, food items, and roofing material. Although three weeks had passed since the devastating earthquake, this was the first time they received all the urgently needed help. We were happy to be the first to arrive and distribute…