[ASA] Earthquake in Kathmandu
Andrew Hopkins
andrew.hopkins at aao.gov.au
Thu May 14 11:25:14 AEST 2015
Dear ASA members,
Thanks to those who have responded. We have two key points of contact,
one on the east-coast, one on the west-coast. For those wishing to make
or coordinate donations of hardware or funding, please contact:
East coast: Rajan Chhetri (rchhetri at phys.unsw.edu.au) and Maria Cunningham
West coast: Peter Quinn (peter.quinn at uwa.edu.au) and Prajwal Kafle
If you wish to proceed independently, please feel free to do so. In that
case Prajwal has provided the following update for transferring funds:
Binil's official local, in Kathmandu, bank account detail is as follows:
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Account Holder's Name : BinilAryal
Official Address: Head, Central Department of Physics, Tribhuvan
University, Kirtipur
Account Number : 062741S
Branch Code: 005
Bank : Nepal Bangladesh Bank Ltd
Bank Address : Corporate office & Main branch, PO Box No. 9062
Bijuli Bajar, New Baneswor, Kathmandu , Nepal
Tel : +977-1-4783972 <tel:%2B977-1-4783972> / +977-1-4783975
<tel:%2B977-1-4783975>
fax : 977-01-4780169
Email : nbblho at nbbl.com.np <mailto:nbblho at nbbl.com.np>
SWIFT code : NPBBNPKA
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The local banks have started operating so there should not be an issue
with fund transfer. Regarding the goods I guess they are still going to
Austrian address.
Binil has provided the following information for shipping of laptops:
Here I am sending address for sending Laptops (please send used laptops
(with charger/battery) only):
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Ram Biswakarma
General Keyes Str. 14
5020 Salzburg
Austria.
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After the collection of laptops, I will officially request
humanitarian organization for the free-air-ncargo so that our department
can receive it in a good shape.
I would encourage you to notify Binil (aryalbinil at gmail.com) if you send
funds or
hardware, so that he knows to expect it and can track things down.
Many thanks to all of you for the support from our community to help
those in need in Kathmandu.
Andrew Hopkins
President, ASA
On 11/05/2015 5:08 pm, Andrew Hopkins wrote:
> Dear ASA members,
>
> The suggestion has been made that there may be some advantage in
> a coordinated response to the request (below) by Prof. Aryal for donations
> to support the astronomy group at Tribhuvan University following the
> earthquake in Kathmandu.
>
> I would like to call for a volunteer from each major metropolitan area who
> is prepared to coordinate the efforts of those in that area in providing
> donations of both funds and hardware. Please let me know by Wednesday
> this week (13 May) if you are able to take on such a role. Please also
> feel free to circulate this request to your contacts outside the ASA in
> order that the pool of potential volunteers is as large as possible.
>
> There are several motivations for this, not least that it will be more
> cost
> effective to manage a single large shipment, or funds transfer, than
> many small ones. I leave it up to the individual volunteers to manage
> that process including arrangements for the cost sharing amongst donors.
>
> If I have multiple volunteers from a given area, I'll ask them to
> work together, or to nominate one to manage donations from that
> region. I'll follow up on Thursday this week with a notification to
> the community of who will be coordinating activities in each locale.
>
> Of course you are welcome to respond to Prof. Aryal's request
> independently of this effort too, and I'm sure all contributions will
> be gratefully received.
>
> Andrew Hopkins
> President, ASA
>
> On 7/05/2015 3:41 am, Bryan Gaensler wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> Below is a request from Prof Binil Aryal, a professor of astronomy at
>> Tribhuvan University in Kathmandu. Binil is an active research
>> astronomer, has hosted some excellent international conferences, and
>> has supervised many smart Nepali students who have gone onto
>> graduate/postgraduate studies at universities around the world. His
>> department and lab were badly damaged by the earthquake: he needs
>> help from the worldwide astronomy community to replace his equipment
>> and to keep astronomy research going in Nepal.
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> Bryan Gaensler
>>
>>
>>> Begin forwarded message:
>>>
>>> From: Binil Aryal <aryalbinil at gmail.com <mailto:aryalbinil at gmail.com>>
>>> Subject: Humble Request From Binil, Kathamdu, Nepal
>>> Date: 6 May 2015 03:00:24 GMT-4
>>>
>>> Dear friends,
>>>
>>> I am Binil, actively working Astrophysicists of Nepal. Right now I
>>> am Head of my the Central Department of Physics. If you remember, me
>>> and my students had put lots of efforts to make Kathmandu Black
>>> Hole Conference successful.
>>>
>>> Personally me and my family is OK, trying to be normal after facing
>>> a very strong Earth Quake (my home is almost damaged, my institute
>>> is partially cracked/ our computation lab have almost gone).
>>>
>>> My computation lab (particularly for astrophysics group) and solar
>>> energy back-up facility at the department have almost gone because
>>> of the massive fall of the walls of the building due to Earth Quake.
>>>
>>> I had worked hard to build that computation facility in my
>>> department since last 7 years. I supervised more than 90 M.Sc.
>>> students in that laboratory for their masters' dissertation and now
>>> 18 MSC students are working. In addition, 4 Ph.D. students were
>>> working under my supervision in that laboratory. Almost 85% CPUs
>>> were crashed because of the fall of the wall/selves/windows in my
>>> department. Yesterday we tried hard to check all CPUs, Power Storage
>>> Battery, Solar panel, projectors and monitors. Country's
>>> situation is very bad. Government can not support research stuff,
>>> immediately. We badly need support from friends and wishers.
>>>
>>> I request you to circulate this disaster-news to as many as people
>>> in your University so that we can get support to immediate make-up
>>> the following (so that research activities in Nepal can not be stopped):
>>>
>>> (1) Few used/old laptops (at least 20 / because we have about 90
>>> graduate students including 18 dissertation and 4 Ph.D. students)
>>> (2) 3KW power Solar Panel + Battery (It will cost about 5000 US Dollar)
>>> (3) 1KW Inverter + Battery (It will cost about 1300 US Dollar)
>>> (3) Two used projectors / Two Cathode Ray Oscilloscopes / Dizital
>>> Oscilloscopes
>>>
>>> I can send bank account of my department if you are interested to
>>> donate. Your small contribution will be a GREAT for me and my
>>> students. If I could not manage support I will be helpless/jobless
>>> and can not do more for my students.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Binil
>>>
>>> --
>>> ------------------------------
>>> Prof. Dr. Binil Aryal
>>> Head
>>> Central Department of Physics
>>> Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur, NEPAL
>>> Tel. 00977 9803221911 (mobile)
>>> 00977 14912801 (home)
>>> 00977 14331054 (office)
>>> Web: http://astronepal.webs.com
>>> ------------------------------
>>>
>>
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