Over the past three months (May to July), Gospel for Asia-supported Compassion Services teams have not only distributed rice, lentils, salt, solar-powered lanterns, tarpaulins and many other needed items to earthquake victims in Nepal, but in July they also gave blood.
On 13 July, students and staff of a Bible college in Nepal joined with a local chapter of the Nepal Red Cross Society to organise a blood drive.
After the first earthquake struck on 25 April, when many victims needed blood transfusions, the blood supply in Kathmandu dropped drastically. Because people were busy rebuilding their lives in the wake of the earthquake, few blood drives had taken place to replenish the supply.
