第一次作为新加坡五月诗社财政，接待以中国知名诗人北塔为首的诗人代表团，我第一次在各位前辈与诗人们朗读了自己的作品，感觉有些不好意思。Participated in a poetry recitation this evening with local and visiting renowned poets from China. This is the first time I have took part in a national poetry event as the hon. treasurer of Singapore May Poetry Society. 😅😅😅 #chinesepoetry #chinese #poetry

許多人問我要怎麼援助尼泊爾，問我是否有信得過的當地組織可介紹。
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在介紹這個組織之前，我想先介紹我的朋友、尼語老師──Hari Kumar Shrestha。跟他認識十幾年，當時他來台灣讀博士班，認識不久，只因有網友說想學尼泊爾文，他就很熱心地利用周末在台大學生餐廳教我們，完全不問學費，還是我覺得不好意思才一人收100，是的，才100，他不但要備課影印教材還要在學生餐廳消費，根本沒賺，但他不介意。
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之後認識愈久，愈發現他就是這樣不計較的人。只要有人有什麼事，再遠再忙他都趕去；有志工要到尼泊爾服務請他在行前介紹尼泊爾教尼語，他也絲毫不推辭。這幾年回到尼泊爾後，他似乎更忙了：台灣人來尼泊爾，他極力幫忙甚至自掏腰包隨行還讓人住他家；尼泊爾人需要幫助，他更是義不容辭，參與了各個公益組織。我常常都想勸他「Hari，我很怕你餓死～有時也要顧自己的荷包好嗎？」
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HEADS就是Hari所參與的公益組織之一，他們原本就是立意幫助農村的發展。地震之後，他們更關注這些偏鄉，此次受災嚴重、九成村落毀損的Gorkha、Sindhupalchowk地區，是他們最急迫要援助的地方。昨天，Hari從Gorkha回來，非常難過地說，政府根本沒幫助當地村民，大家沒地方住，甚至要跟牛隻一起窩在牛棚。
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我一直想，雖然HEADS並不是大型國際NGO組織，也許也沒有什麼災後救援的經驗，但至少我相信Hari，相信他們長期關注農村偏鄉的努力，相信他們會知道村民們的需求。
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消息指出，物資若以貨運方式寄送，容易被卡在機場海關，無法立刻提領發放；但若是旅客託運行李則會放行，所以我們以這樣的方式處理手邊已得的物資。正好透過臉書聯繫到一對台尼夫婦下週要回尼泊爾，他們願意加購託運行李幫忙帶一些當地極為需要卻又短缺的帳篷睡袋防水墊，又有另一位尼泊爾媳婦「尼太太」熱心地聯繫廠商，希望能用善款購入這些物資帶去（真的超出行李能帶的，就只好帶現金到當地購買囉～）。如果近期有人要前來尼泊爾，願意幫忙帶一些物資過去，也歡迎私訊給我（我會請朋友直接到機場跟你碰面領取物資，盡量不讓你麻煩）。
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以下是HEADS的英文簡介，請參考。
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Appeal of HEADS Nepal

Nepal is considered as a disaster prone country. Therefore, floods, landslides, epidemics and fires cause considerable loss of life and property in every year. Earthquakes, on the other hands are not so frequent, but have the potential for causing the greatest damage due a seismic prone country. Therefore, the risk it faces from earthquakes is very high. Currently, an earthquake with the magnitude of 7.8 has stroke Nepal on April 25, 2015. The damaged around the country have claimed more than 4000 lives and impacted around 7,000 people with great financial and economic losses in 31 out of 75 districts in Nepal. The full extent of the disaster is slowly unfolding and going beyond imagination.

The Government of Nepal has started to support the earthquake affected districts, however, their supports are enough to the remote and rural areas of Nepal. According to the Kathmandu Post Daily published on April 27, 2015, the Prime Minister Shusil Koirala has also admitted that rescue; relief and search operations have not been effective and urge all the political parties to work in this crisis.

For providing some supports to the earthquake affected remote and rural areas, Health, Education, Agriculture and Development Society Nepal (HEADS Nepal) is planning to move its volunteers to Sindhupalchowk and Gorkha first, then other affected areas. Therefore, we are kindly requesting you all to help us by providing your financial, moral, material and/or volunteering supports. For the financial support, please use the following Bank Account.

Bank Account
A/C Name: HEADS Nepal
A/C No.: 031400001524
Bank: Bank of Kathmandu Ltd.
Address: Samakhushi Branch, Kathmandu
SWIFT Code: BOKLNPKA
Contact person:
Mr Pratap Raj Onta (9803663660)
Shanker Raj Barsila (9851166703)

(This fund will be transferred to a separate account of HEADS Disaster Relief and Rehabilitation Funds).

Contacts for details:
Chairperson: Pratap Raj Onta, HEADS Nepal (977-9803663660), and

HEADS Disaster Relief and Rehabilitation Funds Committee

1. Coordinator: Dr. Hari Kumar Shrestha (977-9843017893)
2. Joint Coordinator: Er. Ishworchandra Baniya (977-9841254440)
3. Secretary: Ishwor Prasad Dhakal (977-9803880748)
4. Treasurer: Binod Raj Onta (977-9803494483)
5. Member: Raj Kumar Shrestha (977-9851087626)
6. Member: Er. Binod Shrestha (977-9841456706)
7. Member: Tilak Prasad Luintel (977-9841410395)
8. Member: Durga Manandhar (977-9841491570)
9. Member: Babu Ram Dhankuti (977-9841779251)

Note:
1. All the executives & members of HEADS Nepal are requested to provide their support through this Committee.
2. All the income and expenditure of this committee will be shared through online regularly.

HEADS Nepal
(http://www.headsnepal.com/)
Samakhushi, Kathmandu, Nepal