I just returned from Everest Base Camp just 2 days before the devastating earthquake on April 25, 2015. I was a bit tired from the 15 days in the mountain, and having rest time that day was Saturday, and I had an appointment to meet with friends at the DCA building, Sundhara. There were more than 200 people in that building when the earthquake hit. My friends were talking to each other and having lunch there. And sharing each other’s experiences.
Suddenly, there was a massive shake, and everyone was shouting and crying. I felt like moving from one place to another place and could not stay in one place. And I thought this was an earthquake, and I had to hold something. I hold a table and sit under that table. At some time, one of my friends held me and said moryo moryo moryo (I am dying, I am dying). Everything was shaking, breaking, and everyone was crying and shouting.
When the shaking stopped, everyone was running down at the same time, and I also followed them. Along the way, I found one boy shouting my lag is brooked can anyone help me? I dragged him down to the outside, and he was crying in pain. I took off his shoes and checked his legs. Again, there we all felt another shake, and I left him there and ran to the outside army ground.
After stopping the shaking in a few minutes, so many people gathered on that big ground, and I also stayed there for a while and walked from there to my room. When I was on the way to my room nearby 11 stores Dharahara (Viewpoint), I heard people crying in pain, and some people died. At that time, I just thought I had to go to my room, whether everything was safe or not. Along the way, I show everything was ruined. As long as I walked to my room, I felt my room was gone because I was living in a very old house. When I reached my room, nothing happened, and I felt relief from that stress.
In my room, I found everything was okay, and after that, I traveled to my relatives’ places to check if everyone was okay. By fortune, all my relatives and friends were not harmed by that deadly earthquake. Still, the fear was in my heart because there were not possible to call in my village where my brother and his family were living. After trying and trying to call my brother, I connected with him and knew that they were all fine.
When I checked my Facebook and email after I got the network, I got so many messages from beautiful friends from all over the world. I replied to them that I am and that all my friends and family were not harmed by this deadly natural disaster. Sad news was that there were so many people who died and were injured in the earthquake.
Time was passing, and I was thinking here to sleep that night because that was my first earthquake experience, and that was terrible. So I was very scared to sleep in the room. And I decided to sleep outside in the open ground with friends. I slept so many nights in that open ground and ate only bitten rice and Dalmot. At that time, after a few days, there was a food shortage, and people were suffering from hunger. Therefore, I used to walk with my friends to those places where some organizations are distributing free food.
Things were getting normal, but after a one-month letter, there was another earthquake that killed more people and injured more and more people. Again, I suffered from that, but luckily, I got enough help from my friends to live in Kathmandu. Especially from Hans and Fabienne (papa and mama). During that time, they were my backbone and supporters to keep me alive. That 7.8 magnitude earthquake killed more than 9000 people, injured more than 20000, and left more than 2 million people.
After the earthquake, other foreign countries came to Nepal to help and rescue the injured and homeless people. As I have connections with friends from many differnt country. I got some money from those friends to donate food to people. So I distributed food and other emergency supplies to the people who were badly suffered from the earthquake. Even nowadays I am working with the foundation Helping Thulo Parsel Netherland.
This foundation is helping poor people to rebuild their houses. This foundation started to work in 2015 and is still working in the remote villages of Nepal to build houses.
