Many of you are wondering what the Red Cross is doing in Nepal after the earthquake. Today, we created a new way to see what’s happening on the ground.
Field assessment teams have arrived in Nepal to obtain a more accurate assessment of the destruction. Eight American Red Cross disaster specialists are mobilized to Nepal to support emergency relief, cash transfer programming, information management, recovery planning and IT/telecoms.
To help compile what those on the ground are doing and seeing as part of the global Red Cross response, we created a new Twitter list: “Red Crossers on the Ground in Nepal.”
You can subscribe to the list to stay updated and see the full stream of tweets, but here’s a sampling:
house const wt stones and mud grounded, relatively less damage to houses with bricks, cement and concrete #NepalQuake pic.twitter.com/TIjgPAVi34
— Ranjan Mohnot (@ranjanmohnot) April 30, 2015
“Can’t even get in to retrieve anything” says Ram Chandra #NepalQuake pic.twitter.com/lqN3PcLsct
— Robert Laprade (@robertolaprade) April 30, 2015
6 days after #NepalEarthquake she can brush her teeth, was her hands en go to the toilet again. Thanks to #RedCross! pic.twitter.com/fNoZSmxV4e
— Merlijn Stoffels (@merlijnstoffels) April 30, 2015
#redcross team fr #Philippines in Kathmandu planning day of important work. #NepalQuake @philredcross @Federation pic.twitter.com/gGL0FcJ765
— Robert Laprade (@robertolaprade) May 1, 2015
The #Redcross medical team starts relief activities #Nepalquake http://t.co/q1zW96mKRe pic.twitter.com/LwpTEOnMxB
— IFRCAsiaPacific (@IFRCAsiaPacific) May 1, 2015
Families moving their belonging frm damaged houses to temp shelter.. @RedCross @Federation #NepalQuake pic.twitter.com/BiCqz6u40Y
— Ranjan Mohnot (@ranjanmohnot) May 1, 2015
2,200 Nepal #RedCross volunteers now deployed across 41 districts. Some areas difficult to reach but efforts continue pic.twitter.com/wwSFkJVESO
— IFRCAsiaPacific (@IFRCAsiaPacific) May 1, 2015
#nepalquake survivors still sleep outside in poor conditions – Red Cross vols loading tents for those bravi… https://t.co/xgYmV4JiXu
— Nichola Jones (@nicjones81) May 1, 2015
Red Cross volunteer carrying rescued children to hospital from Betini Nuwakot after 6 days #NepalQuake @Federation pic.twitter.com/DPokY7WXzr
— Tirtha Raj Joshi (@TirthaRajJoshi1) May 1, 2015