Rate Per Unit   Total Amount Rs.British pounds 

AUTOCLAVE £68.21
FRIDGE  £151.16
PRIVACY screen CURTAIN  £34.80
EXAMINATION BED  £104.65
STRETCHER  £17.05
STRETCHER  £89.14
STOOL TO CLIMB UP ON TO EXAMINATION BED £18.21
TABLES £36
CHAIRS 6pcs  -  £36
CUPBOARD FOR STORING MEDICATIONS DRESSING  £158.90
EMERGENCY MEDICINE TROLLEY (CRASH CARD TROLLEY)  £310.00
B.P MONITOR  £14.72
STHETHSCOPE  £6.97
OPTHALMOSCOPE  £124.03
SUCTION UNIT  £96.80
NEBULIZER UNIT  £27.13
DRIP STAND   £18.21
KIDNEY BOWL 29p x 4 = £2.90 
SPECULUM S,M,L   £10.46 each
ARTERY FORCEP  £3.01
PLAIN FORCEP  0.93p each x 10 =  £9.30
SCISSORS  £1.43
TORCH  £3.75
FIRST AID BAG TO TAKE TO PATIENTS HOMES WHEN EMERGENCY with items  £25
PLASTIC BOWLS x 4  £10.46
PLASTIC BUCKETS  x 4 £7.36
MOP & BUCKET FOR FLOOR CLEANING   £7.36

Nestling Trust director, Sue Hamblin returned to Nepal in April '16, a visit which coincided with the first anniversary of last year's earthquake.
BBC Wiltshire has broadcast excerpts from her diary - in it she records how she sees the effects of the earthquake now one year on; the way people are coming to terms with the devastation, the hardships and how people are coping -  she includes her own thoughts and feelings. Sue was in Nepal when the earthquake hit, killing 9000 people and leaving thousands injured. Over one million homes were ruined. Since then the Nestling Trust has been working to support humanitarian aid projects as well as focusing on their original goals, to build a home for destitute children and providing healthcare and health education in remote areas.
BBC Wiltshire has continued to follow the progress, conducting a live telephone interview with Sue in Kathmandu, on the anniversary itself, 25th April '16. Excerpts from Sue's diaries following a previous visit in September/October '15 can also be found on this website.

Many remote villages no longer have access to running water due to water levels having dropped following last years earthquake.
During a visit to the remote areas of the Dolakha region of Nepal, Subash and Sue from the Nestling Trust UK, and SITARA Nepal, found that Marbu in Namdu, Khartal in Chilinkha, Leptung in Lapilan and Bhirkot in Daduwa were all without running water. Villagers had no option but to carry heavy vital water supplies daily, from other new sources. across the rugged mountainsides.
The Nestling Trust is supporting SITARA in the building of new health posts in each of these villages - TNT has now undertaken to fund the piping, taps etc. necessary to provide each village with running water. The manpower is being provided by the villagers themselves.

Following permission from the Ministry of Health, agreement documents are signed between NGO SITARA and the Nestling Trust UK - construction work for three simple health shelters can now begin in the remote villages of Bhirkot, Chilankha and Lapilan.

Nature provides it's own commemorative offering, on the first anniversary of the Nepal earthquake 25th April 2015. Jacaranda trees across the Kathmandu Valley are blossoming in purple profusion, a backdrop to the thousand of candles lit in memory of those who died.

Music by Ethnic Melodies of Nepal                                                    Excerpts from Sue Hamblin's diaries Sept/Oct '15

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Lavington Community Choir in Concert was a wonderful evening, raising over £1500 to help the Nestling Trust's relief work in Nepal. Thank you to Jo Richards, Tim Price and all who took part to 'raise the roof 'with such lovely singing and music. Beautiful shrubs and flowers, courtesy of Fiddington Hill Nurseries, provided a summery backdrop to the event - thank you so much. 

On 10th May '15, Sue and Bijen visited Marbu the village where the Nestling Trust has been supporting a health clinic for the past year and where the Dental Camp took place at the beginning of April. Every house had damage but many were in ruins and the secondary school was flattened - thankfully no children were inside. The courage and resilience of the Nepali people shone in their faces as the men of the village showed four bamboo and tin houses they had already completed just two weeks after the earthquake. Two days later the second earthquake struck Nepal and Marbu was in the epicentre - we have heard the remaining houses are now also reduced to rubble. The Nestling Trust will continue to help and support the villagers of Marbu.
To assist The Nestling Trust in our work check out www.nestlingtrust.co.uk My Donate

Sue is currently in the area of Dolakha with the Kathmandu Trauma Centre mobile health team. This area was badly hit during the earthquake. They are providing medical care as well as tents, food and water to villagers. She returns to Kathmandu today.
Prior to this Sue, with Bijen (Nepali director of the Nestling Trust) and his friends have been taking tents, food, water and medical help and supplies to Bhaktapur and surrounding villages and hard to ...reach areas on the outskirts of Kathmandu. They have also been to Melamchi, another remote village in Dolakha.
Subash (Nepali director of the Nestling Trust) has organised a truck to take similar, desperately needed supplies to the village of Marbu where nearly every house is either in ruins or badly damaged. This is the village where the Nestling Trust has been supporting the running of a clinic for the past year. Sadly the clinic has also been badly damaged.

 These photos show a little of the nightmare people are facing here.The first is the home of a man who just before the earthquake came had welcomed me to a meeting at a health post in Nambudha.
The second is just across the road from where Bijen's home is - six people died in this building.
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I was in a village yesterday where every home had been destroyed. We assembled tents (Sheets of plastic stretched over bamboo canes cut from the woodlands because there are no proper tents to be had in the part of Kathmandu where we are) gave food and water and medical help to those with injuries.
Today people were fighting over bottles of water we had taken to a village on the outskirts of Kathmandu.
Where Subash works most homes have been destroyed and food and water and tents are a huge problem. It is here that we intend using a lot of the funds you sent today. he has been digging people out of the rubble.


 

Ironically and tragically the earthquake struck Nepal 5 days after we placed the order for the construction of the Children's Home at Sarangkhot.  Inevitably the start will be delayed for some months.

We remain committed to this and our other projects, especially in Marbu, but we have to respond to the current emergency.  

£10,000.00 will go to emergency relief from our current funds and this will be spent as recommended by our Trustees in Nepal, currently Sue, Bijen and Subash. They are on the ground delivering medical aid, food, water, tents and polythene sheeting to villages flattened by the earthquake, some miles  outside of Kathmandu, and where help has yet to arrive. We have absolute faith in their judgement.

Any donations given to the Trust over the next month will also go to emergency relief unless the donor requests otherwise.

Should you wish to donate please contact one of the Trustees or click on the "My Donate" link at the top of our website

As ever all donations will be used in Nepal – no overheads or admin costs!

Our friends may be interested to read this account of just a couple of days of Sue's life in Nepal :

"I joined the Trauma Centre mobile medical team early Monday morning.  We set off for Naya-gaun a remote village in the remote Dolakha region which had been badly hit by the earthquake and where no help had yet arrived.  There were three trucks in convoy with us, loaded with tents, rice, lentils and clothes which had all been donated by Nepali families and local organisations.  There were also boxes and boxes of donated medicines, dressings, gloves, masks, soap, sanitary protection and a calor gas stove to cook food, dhal batt for all the volunteers.  Travelling with me in an old bus were about twenty volunteers, three doctors, three nurses and students who had come to help.

It was a long, hot torturous journey, so many times the bus got stuck and people who were following on motorbikes, had find timber and stones to block over the gullies so we could proceed. Sometimes the bus lurched so violently we wondered if it would right itself.  We were so hot and the bus was stuffed full with sacks of rice, boxes of biscuits and water bottles so there was no space to move.

After seven hours the bus could not go any further with the weight of people on board and we still had the steepest part of the mountain to climb!  We all took a bag and began the trek upwards, I was glad I had trekked with Bijen, to Poon Hill a couple of weeks before - at least I was a little prepared for the rugged terrain. However, it was so steep I really flagged in the sun, and immediately people I had never met before came to my aid with strong hands to help me keep moving up the rocky mountain track, giving me water, and carrying my load the rest of the way. My new friends were typical of the Nepali people - so kind.

When we reached the top we saw the bus had made it before us by taking a different route.  The weather changed and a strong gale suddenly blew up. We took shelter in the bus. The trucks were still to arrive with our supplies and a tent for us to sleep in for the night.

After about an hour we heard the trucks had been stopped much lower down the mountain in another village where people feared that they would not get any supplies if they allowed the trucks through. The people were angry and hungry – no aid had reached these villages and people were desperate. Eventually just one truck made it up the mountain to us but the wind was too strong to pitch a tent or cook the food.  By 11pm the wind dropped and the men cooked food against a wall of a ruined house - we ate dhal batt and then settled down to sleep inside the bus for safety.  We couldn’t really sleep and in the early hours we felt further tremors, which shook the bus and cancelled out any ideas of sleeping!

Dawn broke at 5am and we found water running from a plastic pipe near the bus so were able to wash away the dust and grime from the previous day. We had black tea and biscuits and sorted out supplies from the third truck including medicines and dressings with which we set up a makeshift health clinic in a tent in the middle of the village. By 7.00 queues of villagers had arrived from all the local areas. Many needed treatment for chest infections, diarrhea and sickness as well as infected wounds.

By 10.00am the sun was high and the inside of the tent was sweltering. We stopped for dhal batt and water and then worked until the last person was seen at about 15.00. So many sad stories like a woman who brought her 18 month old with sores, her three year old daughter and mother had died in the earthquake. Some amazing stories like how a 16 year old boy jumped from the upstairs window of  his home seconds before it crashed to the ground and survived.

We headed back to Kathmandu late that afternoon with two trucks down we were unable to go to another village as planned because of lack of supplies.  After two kilometers the bus got stuck in a deep gully as it tried to turn a sharp bend.  Then after many attempts to get it out the engine conked and no amount of ideas and shouting could get it started again. The driver decided to phone a mechanic in Bhaktapur, about 50 miles away, for instruction! This was carefully relayed  but still nothing.  After a couple of hours a motorbike arrived and the fault was discovered – the engine coughed into life and we were on our way back home again.

The bus reached Kathmandu late in the evening – I was so pleased to be home again with Anamita and Bijen and to have a wash. That night sleeping on the floor was sheer luxury and I didn’t wake until morning – if there were any tremors I didn’t feel them!"
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