Posts Tagged ‘Nepal Earthquake’
Announcing our first Nepal beneficiary, The Women’s Foundation Nepal
We have chosen The Women’s Foundation Nepal as our first beneficiary of the money raised through the Humanist Disaster Recovery Drive. The Women’s Foundation Nepal was founded in 1988 by a group of Nepalese women and has continued to be a locally run organization. In non-emergency times, they support women and children who are victims of violence…
Read MoreEarthquakes are inevitable, high death tolls are not
Some disasters shock us, we don’t see them coming. The chance of them happening is so small that it is unbelievable when the pieces fall down around us. Saturday’s earthquake in Nepal was not one of those situations. Experts, seismologists and disasterologists alike, have predicted this exact situation unfolding. Two years ago to the day,…
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