Ram Krishna Shrestha, 32, works for a company in Minami Ward. He is from a village 70km north of Kathmandu near the epicenter of the recent quake. He was finally able to make a call home on the 26th but it cut off after only 30 seconds. His mother broke her arms and legs after the family home collapsed on her. With young people leaving Nepal to work abroad, many of the villages in the country are only populated by the elderly. Fukuoka is home to about 4,100 Nepalis, second only to Tokyo, and they have begun collecting donations to send home. Members of the Fukuoka-Nepal Society are slated to solicit donations in front of Tenjin’s department stores on May 2 and 3. Meanwhile, the 44 Nepali exchange students at Nagasaki Wesleyan University in Isahaya, Nagasaki Prefecture organized a moment of silence in the university chapel in remembrance of the friends and family they lost in the disaster. Nishinippon Shimbun 4/28
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