10,000 Blankets of Love

We had originally had a donation drive for immediate necessities for them, but it became obvious that this was not good enough. Soon, the coming monsoon season will bring rain and add more hardships as the fragile mountain and ridges give way to mud and landslides. Massive boulders and rocks as big as the size of a car, had already come tumbling down the mountain, devouring everything along its path and inevitably, with more casualties. As if this suffering is not enough, the winter will follow the rainy season soon after. Those that had lost their homes will be meeting the cold bitter winter head on. For the sick, elderly and young, they are more susceptible to pneumonia and frost bite. High up in the Himalayan ridges, the temperature is already in the single digit at night. Sleeping out in the open, damp and wet with just a plastic sheet over their head, it is inconceivable how a person can survive this winter when the ground is icy cold with the relentless freezing wind howling, and temperatures plunging to sub-zero at night. For those weak and fragile, without proper shelter or warmth, it is just pure misery and extreme suffering before succumbing to the cruelty and inevitably, to..... DEATH.

This does not have to happen. A thick and warm blanket can make a difference between life and death; between misery and comfort; between surviving and perishing in the bitter, cold and cruel night. You can give them a chance to get through this winter.

So, your sponsorship can make a lot of difference - to save lives; to give the people a dignified chance to get through this winter so that they can start to rebuild their homes as opposed to burying their loved ones, come Spring. Already poverty stricken, (but no beggars) before the earthquake, and now having lost their homes, belongings and loved ones in this tragedy, One BLANKET can make a lot of difference to saving a person’s life in Nepal.

AND YOU CAN MAKE THAT DIFFERENCE!