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2020-06-08T00:36:38.826Z


The Rotary Club Fürstenfeldbruck of the Namaste Foundation donates 3000 euros. The money now flows from Gilching to food parcels - and then to Nepal.


The Rotary Club Fürstenfeldbruck of the Namaste Foundation donates 3000 euros. The money now flows from Gilching to food parcels - and then to Nepal.

Gilching - Nepal? The country receives little attention worldwide in the media during the Corona crisis. "The crisis hit Nepal particularly hard," says Horst Schmel from Gilching, co-founder of the Namaste Foundation, which has been implementing aid projects in Nepal since the 1960s. Together with his wife Ursula and board member Günther Strödel, he received a check for 3,000 euros from the Rotary Club Fürstenfeldbruck in Gilching. The money flows into food parcels that are supposed to alleviate the plight in the Nepalese village of Bolde. There, the pharmacy couple Schmel, together with other Nepal fans, once had the idea to found the Bolde friends, from which the Namaste Foundation was created.

"Five years after the earthquake, there was a glimmer of hope in Nepal," reports Schmel. He last visited the country in autumn 2019. "It was going up." The trekking tourists brought a bit of prosperity, and the small villages also benefited from it. Then the corona virus came. The government sealed off the country. "Health care is poor, there are no tests, people have no income, they suffer from hunger," says Schmel. The government has designated Dhulikhel Hospital, with a catchment area of ​​2.3 million people, as one of 18 corona centers. It is supported by doctors from the Namaste Foundation, among others. Board member Strödel was last in Nepal in spring, he returned to Europe shortly before the shutdown.

"Scared of News from Nepal"

"We are very scared of news that we receive from villages in Nepal," wrote Strödel in the latest newsletter from the Namaste Foundation. Tens of thousands have fled to their home villages. In Bolde alone, 40 percent more people were living than usual at the moment. "The yields of the barren fields are far from enough to feed everyone, the fewest families have reserves."

Now food packages are being put together that will be transported to Bolde in cooperation with the Dhulikhel Hospital. The Namaste Foundation, whose registered office is in Gilching, pays for the costs of this campaign. She also helps equip doctors with protective clothing.

"I remember my joy as a child about the American care packages at the end of the Second World War," said Schmel. "The irony of history means that I can now help myself." Whoever wants to donate: Namaste Foundation, Raiffeisenbank Gilching, IBAN DE50 7016 9382 0000 0003 45. 

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