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UN says aid contributions must be ‘dramatically ramped up’ because it has received only $22m of the requested $415m  The UN resident coordinator for Nepal, Jamie McGoldrick: ‘The relief needs remain great and we urgently need funds to be able to continue our work.’ Photograph: Manan Vatsyayana/AFP/Getty Images Agence France-Presse in Kathmandu Friday 8 May… Read More Nepal earthquake: UN says it has only received fraction of necessary aid

Nepal earthquake: ‘Million children left out of school’ By Hannah RichardsonBBC News education reporter  8 May 2015 Child-friendly spaces such as this one have been set up in 14 districts Nearly a million children in Nepal will not be able to return to school in the wake of last month’s earthquake unless urgent action is… Read More Send Relief for the Children of Nepal

It is precisely because impermanent, conditioned phenomena are unsatisfying that we are motivated to awaken. Seeing these characteristics clearly becomes the cause of and condition for liberation. Joseph Goldstein, “The End of Suffering” NO! this is simply not true for me. If everything was the same all the time, if nothing ever changed, I would… Read More Ruminations 1: Impermanent Things Make Me Happy

Time Magazine / Stefanie Glinski / Kathmandu May 5, 2015      Caleb SpearA mountain bike team member hands out tarpaulin in villages in need of relief after the Nepal earthquake of April 25, 2015 Now that’s what you call pedal power Nepal’s national mountain biking team was making practice runs last week in Chobar, when the… Read More Nepal’s Mountain Bikers Are Getting Aid to Isolated Quake-Hit Villages

The 8th Reasoning of the Chariot: A Deconstruction of the 7-fold Reasoning of the Chariot by Chandrakirti http://bit.ly/1JoYJro