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25 May 2015

Dear Readers,

Greetings from Himal Southasian. We continue to receive many inquiries from our readers about how they can help contribute to the relief and rehabilitation efforts following the Nepal earthquakes. In response to your queries, we have recently updated our list of trusted organisations you can donate to. Also, our reporting initiative, 'Notes from the field', has new stories about the people and places that have been affected by the devastation.

Notes from the Field

Rabi Thapa writes about how volunteers in Kathmandu Valley are working with state and non-state institutions to salvage what they could of its historic sites, which includes using a smartphone app that documents the damage sustained by Nepal's innumerable religious structures.

Abhimanyu Pandey writes about earthquake survivors from Langtang Valley who found shelter at a camp inside the grounds of the Yellow Gompa, a Tibetan Buddhist monastery of the Gelugpa order. Following the earthquake, the monastery has offered the compound as temporary shelter for people who have lost their homes.

We have Puja Sen reporting from Falame in Kavrepalanchowk district, Slok Gyawali at the Pashupati Temple Ghats and Shubhanga Pandey from Ryale in Kavre district. For more reports see 'Notes from the Field'.

We also have photo essays by Rudra Rakshit from the maternity ward of a major public hospital in the Kathmandu Valley, Sami Siva from Pading, Sindhulpalchowk district and Jan Møller Hansen on the heritage sites in the Kathmandu Valley.

We have also resumed posting regular articles online. Visit himalmag.com for more stories. To subscribe to our print issues, visit himalmag.com/subscribe for rates and buy online at himalmag.com/buy-online.

Himal Southasain
The Southasia Trust
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Kathmandu, Nepal
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