After the earthquake struck Nepal on April 25, killing over 8,000 people and leaving more than 250,000 homeless, the small Himalayan nation—among the poorest in world—was left scrambling to respond…
Month: May 2015
Military interpreters restart their lives in upstate, others still at risk
On one of the year’s first perfect spring days, Aziz trolls the Wegmans supermarket parking lot for stray shopping carts. Despite sometimes erratic weather, he doesn’t mind logging long hours walking the asphalt. It’s nothing compared to the hiking he used to do in his native Afghanistan. Compared to the mountainous terrain, Aziz calls being on his feet all day in the flat parking lot, “a picnic.”…
Rochester Prayers For Nepal
Rochester’s Bhutanese Nepali community turned a celebration of Buddha’s birthday Sunday into a chance to support victims of the recent earthquake in Nepal. Buddhist chants filled Jones Square Park as women in long red dresses picked white blossoms from the trees to lay at a shrine…