Swamijees organize food, health and rehabilitation camp
Kathmandu, May 7, A team of Swamijees or holy men from India has been
organizing a relief camp at different places of Kathmandu, Sindhupalchowk and
Kavrepalanchowk since April 30 to help the quake victims.The death toll in the
April 25 devastating earthquake that rocked various parts of the country has so
far reached 7,759 while as many as 16,432 are injured due to earthquake.
A team led by
Swamijees Mukunda Swamijee of Bramhananda Vidyalaya, Junagadh, Kadsiddeshwor
Swamiji of Siddhagiri Kaneri Math, Kolhapur, and Sampunananda Swamijee of
Aryasamaj Gurukul, Karnal, of India--- conducted relief camp that provided the
services of food, health and rehabilitation for people victimized by
devastating earthquake on April 25, said Hemraj Paudel Research Officer,
Department of Plant Resources, Ministry of Forest and Soil Conservation.
The team has
started the camp from April 30 and it will be continued until the earthquake victims
in the camps are rehabilitated, he added. A medical team also regularly
provides check up services and distribute medicine at free of cost in the
camps.
The food camps
feed around 5,000 earthquake victims at different places in Kathok, Nepalthok, Thulogaun,
and Bhanjyang of Sindhupalchowk, Dhunganatole, Pokharichaur and Bhumidanda of
Kathmandu, and Churithumka, Baluwapati of Kavrepalanchowk is monitored by
Bishnu Kumar Kshetri, Secretary of Kalingpong Krishak Kalyan Sangathan,
Darjaling, said Dev Prasad Shrestha Horticulturist and Floriculture Development
Centre under Ministry of Agriculture Development.
The White Army,
Kolapur, Kalingpong Krishak Kalyan Sangathan, Darjaling is along with the
campaign under the supervision of Shree Swamijees.