AGARTALA, May 4 (TIWN): As a part of the noble cause, various organizations and peoples from Tripura was engaged in collecting fund for the victims of the devastating earthquake recently in Nepal. On Monday, Shanti Sangha Club of Agartala started collecting funds for the victims.

Talking to TIWN, President of the Club, Nagendra Debnath told that, the activity will be going on for the next two or three days also and the club will try utmost to save the people of the neighbouring country. He also informed as a first part of their initiative, today they had collected fund from Anandamayee Ashram.

Apart from that, a couple of days ago, in an effort to help those that have suffered in Nepal, the students of Khowai boy’s secondary school are collecting funds for people affected by the earthquake. As Nepal has been receiving international aid, the students of Khowai boy’s secondary school have also come forward to help them. Since they heard about the devastating news the students has been asking for donations at Khowai district. The student plans to continue to gather donations for at least another week. They do not know how much already has been collected. “It does not matter whether they donate for Rs.10,000 or that they donate Rs.100. It is about volition and attitude and that helps the people to strengthen in this dire need and difficult time,” said a school teacher. Towns and villages near the epicenter of earthquake in central Nepal have suffered almost total devastation.

Other than that various organizations all over the country and world like Goonj, Children care etc also extend their helping hands towards the victims. The 2015 Nepal earthquake, (which killed more than 7,000 people and injured more than twice as many, on 25 April, with a moment magnitude(Mw) of 7.8Mw or 8.1Ms. It was the most powerful disaster to strike Nepal since the 1934 Nepal–Bihar earthquake some casualties have also been reported in the adjoining areas of India, China and Bangladesh.

Hundreds of thousands of houses were destroyed rendering people homeless with entire villages flattened, across many districts of the country. Centuries-old buildings were destroyed at UNESCO World Heritage sites the Kathmandu Valley, including some at the Kathmandu Durbar Square, the Patan Durbar Square and the Bhaktapur Durbar Square. Geophysicists and other experts had warned for decades that Nepal was vulnerable to a deadly earthquake, particularly because of its geology, urbanization and architecture.