Nepal still needs our help. Since the first earthquake on 25 April, there have been more than 100 more of magnitude 4 or over, in different parts of the country. Many homes have been destroyed, and the monsoon rains arrive this month. Shelter is crucial. Longer term Nepal will need our help with rebuilding homes and livelihoods.

How you can help:

• Donate here to support LED’s response to the earthquake in Nepal.
• Organise a fund raising event.

Here are some of the events being held to raise money for LED:

• Fulford school are hoping to raise £8848 (the height of Everest!) for LED and the DEC Nepal Earthquake Appeal through a series of events including a Nepal Fundraiser evening, junior football tournament, staff versus student assault course and staff three peaks on Saturday 20 June!
• In Penrith TODAY (16 May), Jacob Sam-La Rose / Northern Sky are holding a benefit night for LED and the Juniper Trust.
• On 23 May, Steve Razetti and the Earthquake Rockers are putting on a fund raising dance in Carlisle, and all proceeds will be divided between LED and the Juniper Trust.
• Geoff Knight’s team at HSBC have made LED their chosen charity for the rest of the year. Various events are in the pipeline, including Richard Donoghue running the Liverpool marathon in June in aid of LED. HSBC are matching sponsorship £ for £ up to £500.

If you’re fund raising for LED, post on our Facebook page.

Donations large and small will allow us to make a difference on the ground.

Please give what you can. LED is run entirely by volunteers, so every penny you donate will help us to help those in need in Nepal – now and in the longer term.

We’ll keep you updated via Facebook and Twitter.

We’ve had a wonderful response to our request for donations – funds raised through JustGiving have topped £10,000, and on Thursday (07 May) the first shipment – 1.5 tonnes of donated tents, sleeping bags and supplies – landed in Kathmandu, flown out by the Gurkha regiment in York and collected with fabulous support from Fulford School.

This weekend (09 & 10 May) Val and the volunteers have been back at Eden Arts, Penrith, packing up our second shipment of 5 tonnes, mainly tents and sleeping bags which are still so badly needed on the ground in Nepal. Stobarts are transporting our gear from Penrith to Heathrow, and it’s flying out to Kathmandu with Turkish Airlines tomorrow.

Huge thanks to everyone who’s helped by donating gear, funds, transport and time. We couldn’t have done this without you.

We’re now working out our next shipment, but until that’s sorted please hold off with further donations of kit. We’ll keep you updated via Facebook and Twitter.

The groups we’re working with within Nepal have told us that, based on the lists of sizes and numbers of tents and tarpaulins we are sending, they think that they will be able to house about 3000 people and the large mess tents will be used as medical posts and community kitchens – similar to what you see here.

PHASE, Lakpa Doma, Pemba Sherpa and BELIEVERS have already distributed our stock of lights in the Kathmandu Valley and Gorkha. LED’s solar-powered lights distributed before the earthquake are now even more highly valued.

Nepal still needs our help. Many homes have been destroyed, and the monsoon rains arrive this month. Shelter is crucial. We receive daily pleas for tents and tarpaulins from our friends in Nepal, and the rain has already started.

Donate here to support LED’s response to the earthquake in Nepal.

Donations large and small will allow us to make a difference on the ground. Please give what you can – LED is run entirely by volunteers, so every penny you donate will help us to help Nepal, now and in the longer term.

We’ll keep you updated via Facebook and Twitter.

How you can help:

Donate here to support LED’s response to the earthquake in Nepal.

Send tents/sleeping bags/water purification systems (by Wednesday 6th May) to:

Val Pitkethly
c/o 8 Trinity Park
Ripon
HG4 2ER

The main epicentre was in the Gorkha region, home to Manaslu and Tsum where we have donated lights, medical supplies and school supplies for many years – most recently in April this year. You can see photos from the trip here.

Val is working with contacts at PHASE in Kathmandu to get our stock of 250 solar lights distributed in the region as soon as possible, and has donated her tents and kitchen equipment to the villagers of Khunde in the Everest region.

Val’s currently in the UK where she is coordinating with PHASE’s UK team to gather relief supplies and to ship them out to Nepal. The priority needs are for: tents, sleeping bags and any kind of water purification system. We are aiming to ship out on/about Wednesday 6th May 2015.

The monsoon starts in earnest in May. 90% of homes have been destroyed in Manaslu / Tsum area so people desperately need shelter especially after the harsh winter they have had – they have lost 50% of their livestock already. Any tent or sleeping bag will do.

Looking further ahead we will be looking at long term help with rebuilding homes and livelihoods.

Donations large and small will allow us to make a difference on the ground, in Kathmandu as well as in these remote regions:

• £10 will buy water purification and a small blanket in Kathmandu
• £20 will buy a blanket that would cover a family in Kathmandu
• £30 will buy a blanket plus a sack of rice in Kathmandu
• £40 will help with getting tents shipped into the remote areas especially Manaslu area by helicopter, once they can start flying stuff in
• £100 will provide basic food for a month for a family of 4/5 in one of the remote villages in Tsum / Manaslu

Please give what you can. Every penny you donate will go to Nepal – LED is run entirely by volunteers.

We’ll keep you updated via Facebook and Twitter.