Live to Love, a global humanitarian initiative, has
announced to create prefabricated community halls to house earthquake victims.
“In the first phase the organization will erect
eight community halls in Nuwakot, Rasuwa, Sindhupalchowk and Ramechhap districts
to shelter over 2,000 people displaced by the quake”, said Michelle Yeoh,
actress and global amabassador of Live to Love.
Yeoh called on international community,
organizations and corporations to join hands for long term reconstruction in Nepal
“I was amazed to see the strength, resilience and
solidarity of the people here in the hour of devastation and grief,” the
international celebrity said.
Live to Love is collaborating with the Panchakanya
Group and the Drukpa Kung Fu Nuns in Nepal
Minister for Finance Dr. Ram Sharan Mahat performed
the ground breaking ceremony of the first community hall in Ramkot, Kathmandu on Sunday.
Yeoh, Pradip Kumar Shrestha, former Vice Chairman of
SAARC Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Director at Panchakanya Group,
Bhuwan Giri, representative from Nagarjuna
Municipality
Addressing the function organized at the White Gumba
at Ramkot, Dr. Mahat said that the country is at the risk of reversing economic
and social progress achieved so far.
“The catastrophe was beyond our imagination and
calculation. The government has limited capacity. Therefore, we appealed to the
international community, organizations, corporations and individuals to be part
of the rescue, relief, rehabilitation and reconstruction works,” said Dr.
Mahat.
The quake has caused a huge devastation and the
government estimates that around 10 billion US dollars will be needed for the
rehabilitation of the people and reconstruction of schools, hospitals, cultural
heritages and other infrastructure, he said.
Shrestha insisted that the construction of temporary
shelters must complete before the monsoon starts.
He urged the business community in Nepal
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