ICRI Nepal Emergency Response Fund

The International Child Resource Institute (ICRI), founded in 1981, has had the great distinction of working in 58 countries around the world on behalf of children and families.  Through ICRI Nepal's National Center for Learning Resources (NCLR), Network for Children, Prisoners and Dependents (NCPD), the training and development of staff at the Balmandir Orphanage, and many other programs, ICRI has worked in Nepal for 13 years and acts as one of the major NGO's to move the country from great challenges to successful outcomes.
 
·      We are still trying to find out the fate of thousands of children, families and teachers we work with in our NCLR and NCPD programs.

 
·      Six buildings serving children in our programs have been severely or fully destroyed, including the Balmandir Orphanage (pictured below).



·      ICRI stay the course to bring about lasting change that restores the physical, emotional and developmental well being of each child.

ICRI U.S. has agreed to assemble and rapidly send funding and to work logistically in locating materials in nearby countries, particularly India, that can be rapidly dispatched to the earthquake affected zone.  ICRI will also continue to carry out emergency programs and to assist our ICRI Nepal programs in returning our 19 model schools, the many group homes and other childrens programs to normality and greater growth for the future.

We will work with the Nepal team that has close ties with the border region and with our ICRI India office to assist in arranging procurement and dispatch of materials by truck or airplane as available to assure that materials get rapidly to children and families most in need. What makes our team different is that we are committed for the long run to assure each day children and families are being helped, even if it takes years to accomplish the full recovery effort. 

Following the Nepal Earthquake on Saturday 25th April, ICRI's Nepal Country Director Dhirendra Lamsal has said the following:

"First Aid and emergency services being given on the main road as there is not enough open place in Kathmandu and majority of hospitals have been cracked."

" The bad weather post earthquake with rainfall has been a big challenge here in rescue efforts and relief aid distribution."

ICRI Nepal, led by Country Director Dhirendra Lamsal, will use the cash donations as per the local needs and priorities in badly hit ares in Sinduplachowak, Kathmandu, Lalitpur, Bhaktapur, Nuwakot, Gorkha, Kavrepalanchoak and Dhading. 

Your donations will be used to provide:

·      Safe drinking water for people seeking refuge in the streets/shelters

·      Small tanks or big buckets to store water

·      Water purifying tablets

·      Sleeping bags

·      Trekking mattresses and blankets

·      First aid medical supplies

·      Medications for emergency treatment

·      Tent (temporary shelter) or Trekkers shelter

·      Clothes and slippers for children

·      Wellington boots (Rubber boots)

·      Torch/Flash lights

·      Emergency lights & Solar lights

·      Wheel chairs

·      Mosquito Liquid or nets etc "


While many large disaster relief agencies and NGO's undoubtedly help thousands to receive urgent medical care following the recent earthquake, long term sustainable projects that benefit the lives of children and families who have lost everything can only be delivered by organizations like ICRI Nepal, who have a strong community network and highly respected local leadership.   

Please donate now so that:

1) The ICRI Nepal network can significantly aid the emergency relief efforts currently in Kathmandhu. 

2) That when those relief efforts pull their resources out of Nepal, our staff and our network will begin rebuilding the schools and lives of the children we serve.  

There are times where making the right decisions regarding children and families can change their lives forever. This is clearly one of those times. www.icrichild.org