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Student heads to quake-hit home (Nepal) on dogs mission
UNO graduate student Angeela Shrestha plans to help care for stray dogs in Nepal’s capital, her hometown.
http://www.omaha.com/news/metro/student-heads-to-quake-hit-home-on-dogs-mission/article_94e73315-c5db-5c3e-b891-011a533448b3.html
POSTED: FRIDAY, MAY 1, 2015 1:00 AM
By Flora Zempleni / World-Herald staff writer
Angeela Shrestha was on the phone with her mother in Nepal on Saturday when the line went dead.
At first, the 26-year-old University of Nebraska at Omaha graduate student assumed her mom would call back immediately.
As she waited, though, she saw the news on Facebook: A magnitude-7.8 earthquake had hit her hometown of Kathmandu, Nepal’s capital.
It was hours before she was able to get through to her parents and confirm that they were not harmed. She would later learn, however, that her uncle died when a temple collapsed on him.
FULL story at link.