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| AmeriCare relief worker in Nepal |
As you must be aware by now, a 7.8
magnitude earthquake hit Tamang, Nepal with great devastation, over 6,000 dead. Over the past couple of
days, searchers look for victims still buried in the rubble whose
agonizing silence brings no hope of saving anyone else buried.
Nepali immigrants – naturalized
citizens (estimated at 30,000) in United States are concentrated in
New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey with smaller populations in
Texas, Massachusetts, Illinois, and California. There are 5,000
Nepali in the Queens district of New York City. A makeshift candle shrine has been put up to honor the dead and missing in the
aftermath of the worst earthquake of this century. It is hard to believe that a week has passed (April 25th) since the quake hit, but I am sure the time has been slow for the victims.
