Nepal: Please Help

I was a Peace Corps Volunteer in a remote village in Nepal.

One afternoon, as I trekked to my teaching post in the Himalayas, a monsoon storm turned day into night and a landslide wiped out my trail. I got terribly lost; coming to a strange village, exhausted, I sat on the porch of a peasant home. Inside, the family was eating roasted cow-corn kernels for dinner. Roasted cow-corn kernels were to be their entire dinner; there was nothing else on their menu.

A man inside saw that a human form was sitting on his porch. He couldn’t have seen that I was American, or anything else, for that matter. It was dark night by then, in a village without electricity. In any case, I was wearing a sari. He whispered to his wife, “Someone is sitting on our porch. We have to cook rice.” Rice is the highest status food in that economy. And, by “rice,” they meant, for them, an elaborate meal consisting of rice, lentils, and vegetables.

Their hospitality astounded me. I did eat with them that evening, and sleep in their house.

I loved my time in Nepal. I met many good people there.

There has been a terrible earthquake in Nepal.

The agencies listed below are doing relief work.

I would like to offer a free, signed copy of my book "Save Send Delete" to the first four people who donate fifty dollars or more to one of these agencies.

Thank you.

American Jewish World Service:
ajws.org
The Salvation Army:
salvationarmyusa.org
International Medical Corps:
internationalmedicalcorps.org
Handicap International:
handicap-international.us
Unicef:
unicef.org
PayPal:
paypal.com
Mercy Corps:
mercycorps.org
Catholic Relief Services:
crs.org
Habitat for Humanity International:
habitat.org
Global Giving:
globalgiving.org
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee:
jdc.org
Oxfam:
oxfamamerica.org
World Vision:
worldvision.org
Red Cross:
redcross.org
United Nations World Food Program:
wfp.org
Samaritan’s Purse:
samaritanspurse.org
CARE:
care.org
Save the Children:
savethechildren.org
Lutheran World Relief:
lwr.org
The Jewish Federations of North America:
jewishfederations.org
SOS: Children’s Villages International
sos-childrensvillages.org
Doctors Without Borders:
donate.doctorswithoutborders.org
MAP International:
mapinternational.org
International Relief Teams:
irteams.org