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NDBS earthquake Relief truck	Gorkha- Relief caravan ready to roll	All hands on board	Relief materials arrive at Lele
Salesian Sister Aquilina supervises a distribution of relief materials	Muchok-a boy looks at pages of his book amidst the ruins of his school	NDBS Relief Core Team meets to assess progress	Fr. Jijo John SDB, Coordinator of NDBS Rrelief work
stockpiling relief supplies	Tulosilvari	Shattered	Panorama of school ruins
This was our school

A Salesian Response to the Earthquake`s Aftermath

In the face of the enormous human tragedy that resulted from the 7.8 earthquake that flattened much of Nepal on 25 April, the sons and daughters of Don Bosco rose valiantly to the occasion, keeping alive his legacy of compassionate response to the afflicted, a` la Turin`s cholera epidemic of 1854, translating their characteristic pastoral charity into speedy and wide-ranging humanitarian assistance.

The scale of devastation and death was of Himalayan proportions: 39 of Nepal`s 75 Districts were rocked by the earthquake, 16 of them severely; close to 8000 persons were killed, several thousand more injured, and billions of rupees worth of buildings, cattle, fields ready for harvest, and other property destroyed.

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