April Earthquake Support Timeline

27th April

Lions have organised blood donations at regional hospitals, for those evacuated from the affected areas by Indian Army helicopters. We have also provided new clothes to those patients, who were brought in from their villages with only the bloodied clothes on their backs. Clothes have also gone to the earthquake victims having treatment at the Western Regional Hospital, Pokhara. 

28th April

We have began collecting instant foods and drinking water, worth 300,000 rupees. These supplies have been delivered to the Pokhara airport, to be supplied to remote areas via helicopter. Our past president, Lion Sonam Sangpo, was the first Lion who was able to board the helicopter and distribute those foods to affected villages by his own hand.

We have also provided 30,000 rupees worth of bed sheets and blankets for the earthquake victims in care at the Western Regional Hospital and Gandaki Medical College, Pokhara.

29th April

Lion Sonam Sangpo, and other Lions, were at the airport to support the sending of relief materials to different locations in the Gorkha District. Our president, Lion Yedhunath Adhikari, along with other Lions, went to the Regional Hospital and provided 40,000 rupees worth of bedsheets and other clothes.

30th April

We have distributed one truck of drinking water from Pokhara to Kathmandu, for the hospitals in the valley. This water was worth 100,000 rupees. We have also coordinated the sending of tents and relief materials to Listi, Sindhupalchowk. These materials were donated by the Tibet Relief Fund, and are worth 270,000 rupees.

Safe Drinking Water Project

In 2010, the Lions Club of Pokhara Annapurna organised a second safe drinking water project, with the support of IAG LCIF, the Lions Club of Tokyo Shintoshin and LCIF. This was the first IAG project in Nepal. This project involved distributing thirty portable water purification machines to government schools. The total project cost was 618, 764 rupees. 

Safe Drinking Water Project

In 2003 the Lions Club of Pokhara Annapurna organised the de-worming program for schools in and around the Pokhara valley. It was found that more than 70% of children were infected with different types of worms, and some children were seriously ill. Since then, the Lions Club of Pokhara Annapurna has regularly organised health camps to eradicate this problem. This year, the club also distributed twenty four water purification systems to twenty four government schools in the Pokhara valley. The club was able to undertake this project due to the support of Mr. Benjamin Meyer, from the UK, and donations from twenty individual donors, amounting to 43,000 rupees.