Saving lives: Rescue teams searching for people trapped in the rubble of collapsed houses. — BERNAMA
PETALING JAYA: The Thrangu Dharma Society Petaling Jaya has set up a Nepal Earthquake Relief Fund to aid victims.
Nepal Earthquake Relief Fund 2015 organising chairman John Fam said The Thrangu Rinpoche’s Monasteries in Nepal were also not spared by the devastating quake.
Thrangu Tashi Choling Monastery, Namo Buddha Monastery, Tara Abbey Ani Gompa and Shree Mangal Boarding School suffered varying degrees of damage.
“Remote villages are left out due to inaccessibility,” said Fam. “Thrangu Rinpoche has said that saving lives is the priority now and has sent out his monks to remote villages with the monasteries’ clinics treating patients.
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Namno Buddha Monastery, located outside Kathmandu, is now a refuge centre providing food, refuge and medical treatment.
“Resources in the monastery are running low and an urgent appeal has been sent out,” Fam said adding that all collections for the relief fund will go towards buying medicine, tents and food.
The fund will be administered by Thrangu Rinpoche. All donations will be accounted for and posted on the TDSPJ website http://thrangumy.com/.
To donate, bank in to Affin Islamic Bank Berhad Acc No: 20-624-005756-5 for Thrangu Dharma Society Petaling Jaya.
Fax the bank-in slip to 03-79588548 or email it to Jennifer Lee at gplee2009@gmail.com for a receipt. For enquiries, call the resident monk Lama Lodro at 03-79588548.
In Butterworth, the Honorary Consul of Nepal in Penang has also started a Nepal Disaster Fund at the consulate office.
Consul Datuk Huan Cheng Guan said the fund was to help the 150,000 Nepalese in Penang, Kedah and Perlis some of whom approached the consul for help after failing to get in touch with their families.
Those wishing to donate can do so through the Nepal Disaster Fund’s RHB Bank account (no 20702800089315); or send their cheques, made out to the Nepal Disaster Fund, to 2777, Ground Floor, Taman Inderawasih, Jalan Chain Ferry, 13700-Perai, Penang.
For more information, contact Huan (011-19233333) or his secretary K. Prabakaran (016-4540096).
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