Concern Worldwide’s Nepal Emergency Appeal Reaches €250,000 in first five days as agency’s disaster response underway
“Amazing Irish public response” says Concern CEO as business and Nepalese community also rally to help earthquake response. Role of Irish business support also vital to overall response.
With Concern Worldwide’s Emergency Response Team on the ground in Nepal and now helping in the relief effort following last Saturday’s massive earthquake in the country, the agency’s CEO has praised the Irish public’s response to its emergency appeal.
“There has been an amazing public response to our Nepal Emergency Appeal in the first few days,” said Concern CEO Dominic MacSorley. “As our team is now accessing the most remote and most devastated part of the country, the need for that continued support from the public here will grow. Our team has previous experience of working in Nepal as recently as 2010 so they will draw on that local knowledge and link effectively with local partners and communities.”
Concern worked in Nepal from 2006 to 2010, focusing on livelihoods, water and sanitation, and nutrition.
The agency’s Emergency Response Team has now linked with two former local partner organisations, Rural Reconstruction Nepal and Nepal Water for Health, and will be distributing shelter and hygiene supplies to 10,000 households – equating to 50,000 people - in three rural areas worst affected by the earthquake, Dolakha, Sindhupalchok and Ramechhap.
Mr MacSorley also praised business companies and corporations, saying that they, too, were supporting Concern’s appeal.
“Local business and corporations are often unheralded supporters in circumstances like this,” added Mr MacSorley, “and their role, and that of their respective staffs, should be clearly acknowledged as being vital to funding the aid effort when sudden disasters like this hit and people need urgent lifelines to survive.”
Public donations to Concern’s NEPAL EARTHQUAKE APPEAL can be made through the following channels: Website: www.concern.net; Phone: 1850 211 844; or, by post or in person at Concern Worldwide (Nepal Appeal), 52-55 Lower Camden St, Dublin 2.
Contact:
Paul O’Mahony: 087 965 3877
Karen Power: 086 729 9953