“Initial relief operations are focused on meeting urgent basic needs of people who were displaced or otherwise impacted by the earthquake. Assessments currently underway will help inform medium- and long-term efforts to help those most vulnerable to make a full and sustained recovery. With the planting season reportedly six weeks away and monsoon rains beginning in eight weeks, timely action is needed in order to avoid prolonging emergency needs.
Episcopal Relief & Development and its peers in the Anglican Alliance, the group of Anglican Communion relief and development agencies, urge prayers for all those impacted by the earthquake in Nepal.”
excerpt from Episcopal Relief and Development Earthquake in Nepal webpage
Still interested in related facts? Here is a fact sheet from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and Office of the Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Nepal.