Canadian families still waiting for answers 1 week after Nepal flood disaster
A Toronto woman whose relative is among the missing, said family members have been left scouring the internet, looking on Nepal police sites and missing identity sites to see if the names of any relatives come up. She's calling for a wider international response to help in rescue efforts as the days tick by with no word on her cousin or the three family members he was travelling with.
The 2015 earthquake claimed thousands of lives, yet another disaster struck Nepal just a few months later, this time man-made. Kang Dae-seok, head of the Nepal branch of the Um Hong Gil Human Foundation, compared the two events in an interview in Kathmandu. The recent flooding was triggered by a glacial collapse due to global warming, while the previous earthquake was beyond human control.
Kang, an expert on local affairs and former secretary at the Korean Embassy in Nepal, emphasized that man-made disasters could happen again if proper preparations are not made. The foundation he leads conducts educational aid projects in Nepal, including the establishment of 19 schools nationwide.
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