Lexington Nepali community pleading for help
The death toll now tops 4,000 with an estimated 8,000 people hurt and it could get worse. Information has been spotty from Nepal’s more remote areas.
Even though Lexington is around 8,000 miles from Nepal, there are Nepalese people here affected by the tragedy.
"I have been trying to contact but I’m not able to contact, so we would try once, and then I also tried tried and tried,” Buddha Maharjan says.
Maharjan and his wife were trying to get in contact with their family on Saturday when they heard the news on Saturday.
They tried for hours before they were able to get a call through.
"My wife’s whole family was buried inside of [their house],” Maharjan says. “The neighbors tried to rescue them. They rescued the whole family expect my wife’s uncle.”
"After four hours, they found my wife’s uncle and they also noticed that he has a pulse,” he says. “They took him to the hospital and during the treatment he passed away.”
Maharjan’s wife lost two family members in the earthquake, her uncle and her uncle’s mother.
For his own family, he finally got in touch with his brother.
"No one can stay inside the house,” Maharjan says. “What they did is made a tent outside the home and almost more than 100 of peoples stayed together in that tent."
A group of Nepali natives works at Lexington’s Xerox Center on Fortune Drive. Since news of the disaster, they’ve been keeping together as a family at home and at work.
"We are here, but you know we are physically here but our whole emotions, everything is in Nepal,” Maharjan says.
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Victims of the earthquake in Nepal are in desperate need of aid. If you are interested in donating to the families struck by the disaster, the following websites have funds set up for donations:
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