RNRN staff have been closely monitoring and and have been in touch with our disaster relief allies as events unfold in Nepal after the devastating 7.8 earthquake struck this past Saturday. 

Our thoughts and hopes are with the Nepalese people as they work to recover from this shattering event. Thanks to the RNs who have already been in contact with us wanting to help. While we are hearing encouraging reports of some of the recovery effort, this is a large scale disaster of international proportions and the road to recovery for Nepal will be long and hard.

Through our long term allies and other contacts on the ground in Nepal, including International Medical Corps, Direct Relief, USAID, and the US military, we will be assessing how and where we might be able to best assist both for immediate as well as long term needs, and, as always, need to make sure that we do not add to the burden of the recovery effort..

If you are not already signed up to help as an RNRN volunteer, you may do so on our website at www.rnresponsenetwork.org  We will be providing additional updates as we have more information on how we can best provide assistance to the people of Nepal.