Nepal Needs Our Help After 7.9 Magnitude Earthquake - Links to Help

The 7.9 magnitude earthquake that recently devastated Nepal has claimed at least 4,000 lives as I write this appeal. I hiked to Mount Everest Base Camp in September 2008 so I have a great affinity for the people there. Some friends have posted various ways to help and I wanted to share those links with you. 


(1) Recommended by Gerri Unrien Kier and Stephen Forte.

Shelter Box USA.

Education Elevated.

Education Elevated Presents a Benefit Garden Concert with The John Byrne Band. There was a previously scheduled fundraiser on Saturday, June 13, in Lafayette, Colorado. It will benefit the hard hit Chyangba Village in Nepal.  Come on out and enjoy an amazing sunset, garden concert with these gifted musicians.

Equal parts Celtic and American Folk, Dublin-born singer/songwriter/guitarist John Byrne is one of the few musical artists today who manage to be traditional and modern at the same time. The John Byrne Band has built a large and loyal regional following from New York to Delaware and throughout the Northeast, with critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic.

TICKETS: $35 each

To Order Call: 303.815.3567
Email: GerriKier@EducationElevated.org


(2) Recommended by Mount Everest Guide Tim Rippel. Tim has been leading trips to Nepal for 30 years and has participated in 42 Himalayan expeditions. 


First Steps International.




(3) Recommended by myself.

International Orthodox Christian Charities.


(4) Recommended by Karina Oliani from Brasil. Karina summitted Mount Everest in 2013. I met Karina while hiking in the Canadian Rockies in 2011. 

Himalayan Family Heathcare Project
 

Expedition and Wilderness Medicine

(5) Recommended by Apa Sherpa. He summitted Mount Everest a record 21 times. I met him at Eastern Mountain Sports (EMS) in SoHo in 2010.

Apa Sherpa Foundation


(6) Recommended by Edward Lin.


From the various links on fb-posts, articles, etc., I've compiled some of them below. Choose the charities that you feel comfortable with and take action...

Doctors Without Borders 

Phakchok Rinpoche’s Relief Fund 

Educate the Children (Nepal) 

AmeriCares 

CARE 

Catholic Relief Services 

Direct Relief 

GlobalGiving

Save the Children

UNICEF United States

Mercy Corps 

Karuna-Sechan 

Oxfam 

American Red Cross 

Tzu Chi (Buddhist based disaster relief organization)




(7) Recommended by Tim Wilson.


The Gurka Welfare Trust


(8) Recommended by PayPal.

UNICEF  


Habitat for Humanity International.

 
Thank you very much for any assistance you can provide.

Namaste,
Tomislav S. Djurdjevich
New York, NY USA

ANZAC Day - Gallipoli Campaign beginning on April 25, 1915 - Lest We Forget

100 years have passed since Australian and New Zealand troops landed on Gallipoli in the Ottoman Empire (or Gelibolu in modern Turkey) on April 25, 1915. There were massive amounts of casualties on all sides. Australia and New Zealand observe April 25 as ANZAC Day.


Some links with more information include the following.

The Gallipoli Campaign. 

Live ABC coverage of the ceremonies in Gallipoli and Australia.

Australian Rules Football is one of my favorite sports. These are some links to remembrances in Australia and locally in NYC.

Anzac Day 2015: AFL players remember club mates who gave up football for front line and died on first day of battle

New York Magpies Australian Rules Football Team.

My paternal grandfather Stojan fought in World War I. I wanted to remember him and others who fought. My friend Aleksandra Rebic blogged this post on her Heroes of Serbia website. 

"Serbian Veterans and Descendants Association Australia" announces ANZAC DAY PARADE IN AUSTRALIA SATURDAY APRIL 25, 2015

"For the participants of the

Anzac Day Parade April 25, 2015,

don't forget

your black suit, black tie, subare, sajkace,

and your Chetnik pride!"

SerbianVeteransand DescendantsAustralia

on Facebook.

"...Anzac Day is arguably Australia's most important national occasion. Every year, Australians commemorate the anniversary of that first campaign [Gallipoli April 1915], and at the same time commemorate all the military conflicts that followed..."

Wendy Frew
Australia editor, BBC News Online

April 24, 2015

*****

If you would like to get in touch with me, Aleksandra,

please feel free to contact me at heroesofserbia@yahoo.com

A great photo that a friend of a friend posted on FaceBook.

 

Lest We Forget! Vechnaya Pamyat Deda Stojan!

Tomislav S. Djurdjevich
April 25, 2015
New York, NY USA