Attended the World Food Programme office this morning for the Food Security Cluster meeting. This groups all the agencies currently working in the area of supplying food aid and agricultural recovery programmes. We are doing both.
Main issues surround the logistics of getting the right seeds to the right paces at the right time, but it is great to see this is being coordinated so well. We discussed at length the choice of seed and crops which we may have to fall back on if time gets away for ideal rice planting season. There is also a need to replace livestock killed by falling buildings and rocks in the hills. Also to replace tools and equipment which have been buried to actually get the land cultivated.
Very excited to see that our project was in the main newspaper ( The Himalayan) today as having a photo and article of one of the helicopters delivering food aid.
Found people are using internet site (Lastquake) to monitor aftershocks. So far we have had 6 of them on Friday, 9 Saturday, 3 Sunday and 1 today. I have only felt those over 5 on the Richter scale which were on Saturday the others were all 4 or less.