An illustrated talk on Nepal to raise funds for PHASE Worldwide Nepal Earthquake Appeal will be given in St Catherine’s Church hall, Port Erin, at 7pm on Monday (June 22) by Sheila Bull, whose sister, Jan Edwards, lives in Port Erin.
Sheila first visited Nepal in September 1997 and she returned the following January to teach English in Chitwan.
She has returned most years since then, her most recent visit was in March, leaving four weeks before the earthquake struck. She said: ‘My son, Richard, has lived in Nepal for almost seven years and speaks fluent Nepali. He was safe when the earthquake struck, as he was in Mustang, one of the north western districts. He has been helping with the relief effort using money raised by his friends in other countries, by sourcing materials and food for teams going out to villages. He went out to a village to the North East of Kathmandu, with one of the teams, taking tarpaulins, solar lamps and rice. There have been daily aftershocks since the first earthquake, some of which have been 6+ on the Richter scale.
‘I enjoy showing people what I love about this beautiful but very vulnerable country. It is even more important to me now, that others should have an understanding of what the Nepalese people are going through in the aftermath of the two earthquakes.’
Nepalese silver jewellery will be sold at the talk.