Volunteering as an Emergency Responder
If you’re interested in becoming an emergency responder, one way to go about it is by adding yourself to the database organized by the Structural Engineering Emergency Response (SEER) Committee of NCSEA. Here is their matrix of requirements for emergency responders. The Applied Technology Council (ATC) has posted online a recorded version of a webinar on ATC-20. Here’s an […]
How You Can Help: Crowdsourced Volunteering
People like to help. But not everyone can, or should, go to Nepal to help out in person. There are, however, a variety of different ways you can help out from home. And considering today’s large aftershock, there may be a renewed need for online volunteers. What follows is an assortment of resources. Check them out, see […]
How technology has improved emergency response in Nepal
Search and Rescue With new natural and man made disasters comes new applications of existing technology. The recent earthquake in Nepal has highlighted this through crowdsourcing data (check out our previous post), and more recently through the application of NASA technology to find people trapped under rubble. The search-and-rescue technology called FINDER (Finding Individuals for Disaster and […]
World Affairs Council: Rebuilding in Nepal
On May 13, 2015, the World Affairs Council hosted a panel discussion that focused on Rebuilding in Nepal. The event took place in downtown San Francisco, CA. The panel consisted of the following three individuals: Norbu Tenzing, Vice President of American Himalayan Foundation Elizabeth Hausler, Founder and CEO of Build Change Birger Stamerdahl, President and CEO of Give2Asia The […]
Volunteering for Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team: A Guest Post!
A couple of years ago, I spent eighteen months living in South-East Asia. At weekends, keen to truly experience a part of the world I had dreamed of as a child, I would head out exploring, either by booking a cheap flight or just by heading out on my bike. Like all good explorers, I […]
Preparing for the unforseen: How Nepal is preparing for large aftershocks and monsoons
The nation of Nepal has had many trials to overcome with rebuilding a number of cities and villages due to the damage and destruction caused by the April 25th Gorkha earthquake and with the monsoon season imminently approaching. However, on May 12th, another devastating earthquake of magnitude 7.3 hit Nepal near Kodari, which is in the […]
Government Aid Yet to be Distributed
According to an article by Reuters, the Nepali government has yet to spend the roughly 4 billion dollars of donated relief money. Rather than diving straight into reconstruction, they’ve attempted to first make changes which they believe will create greater stability in the long run. However, this has come at the cost of delaying aid […]
Housing in Nepal – A Brief Overview
The housing in Nepal has been classified into four categories on the basis of types of construction materials used in walls and roof of the residential house. These are permanent, Semi permanent, temporary and other types. Permanent (Pakki) house (Kayastha and Shreshtha, 2005) refers to that with both walls and roof made of permanent construction […]
News Articles Related to Housing in Nepal
Housing in Kathmandu, in Rural Nepal, and Vulnerability of Housing Housing in KathmanduNepal Earthquake Death Toll Surpasses 7,000Estimates that 150,000 dwellings collapsed in Nepal, 175 residential buildings in central KathmanduNepal Death Toll exceeds 6,000Drone footage of damage in Kathmandu, NepalHouses fell ‘like a pack of cards’ as earthquake struck, says Nepal bishopBuildings in Kathmandu, […]
Housing Damage Photos – Urban and Rural Areas
Housing Damage in Cities and Urban Areas Figure 1. Bhaktapur, Nepal (Source: Reuters) Figure 2. Katmandu, Nepal (Source: New York Times) Figure 3. Bhaktapur, Nepal (Source: Associated Press) […]