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# Nepal: U.S. Relief and Recovery Targeting Most Affected Populations

By Embassy of the U.S., Kathmandu Nepal

Ambassador Peter W. Bodde welcomed the U.S. Disaster Assistance and ResponseTeam (DART) to Nepal today, April 28.  The team is deployed to assist withrelief and recovery efforts in coordination with the Nepal Government, theinternational community, and relief agencies, after the April 25 earthquake. U.S. Government on-the-ground emergency relief and recovery will comprise ofnearly 130 members, also including Urban Search and Rescue Teams from Fairfaxand Los Angeles Counties, along with 45 square tons of cargo.

The U.S. Government is providing $10 million in humanitarian assistance torelief agencies operational on the ground, deploying funds to address immediatehumanitarian needs in affected districts across Nepal.  USAID is conducting avariety of other disaster risk reduction activities, including:

**Earthquake Management Information and Assessments:** USAID’sOffice of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance’s partner organization, NationalSociety for Earthquake Technology-Nepal (NSET), is providing critical earthquakemanagement information through various media outlets.  NSET’s intensity andinundation mapping tools with population data overlays will provide criticalinformation for the recovery and humanitarian efforts underway.  In addition,NSET is responding to the Government of Nepal’s (GON) request for infrastructureassessments and has already completed a number of assessments focused on roads,electricity sub-stations, and hospitals.

**Non-food Relief Items:** USAID/OFDA’s partner organization,the Nepal Red Cross Society, is currently distributing USAID/OFDA prepositionedNon-food Relief Items (NFRIs) to 3,000 families in earthquake-affected districts– Kathmandu, Lalitpur, Bhaktapur, Sindhupalchowk, Syangja, and Rasuwa.  TheNFRIs include items such as blankets, clothes, kitchen utensils, buckets, andropes.  Supplies are also reaching the 16 internally displaced person (IDP)camps that have been set up in the Kathmandu valley.

**USAID’s Suaahara Project:** The USAID Integrated Health andNutrition Project or Suaahara, operating in six of the 11 most affecteddistricts – Lamjung, Dolakha, Gorkha, Rasuwa, Sinhupalchok, and Nuwakot – isparticipating in district-level disaster response meetings and providing supportaccordingly.  To date they have met district level requests for water, ready toeat foods, tents, blankets, and basic medical supplies. 

**USAID’s Hariyo Ban Project:**  Operating in four of the 11most affected districts – Lamjung, Gorkha, Rasuwa, and Dhading – Hariyo Ban isparticipating in district-level disaster response meetings and planning toprovide $50,000 worth of immediate rescue and relief items that may include:tents/tarpaulins, water, food, medications, and feminine products. 

The best way to help those affected is to make a monetary donation to areputable humanitarian organization working in the disaster zone. Non-governmental organizations listed here have issued appeals for donations:http://www.usaid.gov/nepal-earthquake

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