Help Mustang, Nepal battle Covid-19
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In March 2020, I arrived in Nepal as a tourist and started hiking the popular Annapurna Circuit Trek in the Himalayan Mountains of Nepal. When Covid-19 became a pandemic that month and countries across the globe went into lockdown I became stuck mid-trek in lockdown in the mountainous Mustang region.
The people in these rural villages -with no expectation of receiving anything in return- sheltered me, took care of me, shared their culture with me, and became my family over the entire first year of the pandemic that I spent there.
The isolated nature of the area protected these villages from the pandemic for the first year and it was a very safe place to be.
Now, tragically, in the second year of this pandemic, Covid-19 has reached this beautiful place that I now consider a second home.
Populations of these villages range from around 50-100 people. Currently nearly 100 people are sick in the area, as well as many hospitalizations and deaths. In communities this small, numbers like this are a very serious situation and the deaths of beloved community members is devastating.
There is NO medical care in this area and NO hospital in close driving distance in case of an emergency. Helicopter evacuation to the closest hospital is the only option in an emergency.
The Nepal government is not supplying this area with any medical supplies, it has been left to the locals to try to help themselves. Given the exorbitant costs of the help that is needed compared to the income of local families, it’s impossible for them to afford the medical help they need.
Nepal as a whole is suffering greatly from the worst peak in the pandemic thus far and is running out of hospital space, oxygen and medical supplies. While many wealthy countries give financial and medical aid to Nepal this aid doesn’t reach many small communities.
They helped me and gave me so much in the last year and it's the least I can do to now try to help them in their time of need.
Most important aid that is needed in Mustang URGENTLY:
- Oxygen Concentrator (5L) medical grade - 150,000 NR/$1,288
- Oxygen Concentrator (10L) medical grade - 250,000 NR/$2,147
- Minimum cost of one helicopter evacuation to Pokhara (the closest hospital) - 250,000 NR/$2,147
My fundraising goal of $5,000 is the minimum of what is needed, as many oxygen concentrators and potentially multiple helicopter evacuations are foreseeable. Additional medical supplies such as masks and hand sanitizer will also be purchased with this money, and any remainder would be given as aid to the families most effected by Covid-19
All funds raised will be given directly to the community member who is organizing and purchasing this emergency medical care.
In wealthy countries like the US we are seeing a light at the end of the tunnel, in Nepal the pandemic is only now reaching its peak.
Please help me help some of the most generous, kind, and beautiful people I’ve ever had the privilege to get to know.
Thank you!
The people in these rural villages -with no expectation of receiving anything in return- sheltered me, took care of me, shared their culture with me, and became my family over the entire first year of the pandemic that I spent there.
The isolated nature of the area protected these villages from the pandemic for the first year and it was a very safe place to be.
Now, tragically, in the second year of this pandemic, Covid-19 has reached this beautiful place that I now consider a second home.
Populations of these villages range from around 50-100 people. Currently nearly 100 people are sick in the area, as well as many hospitalizations and deaths. In communities this small, numbers like this are a very serious situation and the deaths of beloved community members is devastating.
There is NO medical care in this area and NO hospital in close driving distance in case of an emergency. Helicopter evacuation to the closest hospital is the only option in an emergency.
The Nepal government is not supplying this area with any medical supplies, it has been left to the locals to try to help themselves. Given the exorbitant costs of the help that is needed compared to the income of local families, it’s impossible for them to afford the medical help they need.
Nepal as a whole is suffering greatly from the worst peak in the pandemic thus far and is running out of hospital space, oxygen and medical supplies. While many wealthy countries give financial and medical aid to Nepal this aid doesn’t reach many small communities.
They helped me and gave me so much in the last year and it's the least I can do to now try to help them in their time of need.
Most important aid that is needed in Mustang URGENTLY:
- Oxygen Concentrator (5L) medical grade - 150,000 NR/$1,288
- Oxygen Concentrator (10L) medical grade - 250,000 NR/$2,147
- Minimum cost of one helicopter evacuation to Pokhara (the closest hospital) - 250,000 NR/$2,147
My fundraising goal of $5,000 is the minimum of what is needed, as many oxygen concentrators and potentially multiple helicopter evacuations are foreseeable. Additional medical supplies such as masks and hand sanitizer will also be purchased with this money, and any remainder would be given as aid to the families most effected by Covid-19
All funds raised will be given directly to the community member who is organizing and purchasing this emergency medical care.
In wealthy countries like the US we are seeing a light at the end of the tunnel, in Nepal the pandemic is only now reaching its peak.
Please help me help some of the most generous, kind, and beautiful people I’ve ever had the privilege to get to know.
Thank you!
Organizer
Maddie Meigs
Organizer
Durango, CO