How to help after Nepal and Tibet’s catastrophic floods
As rescue teams continue searching for hundreds of people missing along the Nepal-China border following catastrophic floods, humanitarian organizations are mobilizing to aid survivors. Hundreds are dead or missing after a deadly torrent of water and mud several stories high swept through communities Wednesday following a glacier collapse. The Nepalese army has been using helicopters to rescue people because so many roads and bridges have been washed out. Dan Hovey, vice president of emergency response at Direct Relief, which provides medicines and healthcare to disaster-struck ...
