{"id":3740,"date":"2015-05-05T14:05:57","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T18:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/17\/helping-out-with-relief-effort-in-nepal\/"},"modified":"2024-07-24T14:21:22","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T18:21:22","slug":"helping-out-with-relief-effort-in-nepal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/helping-out-with-relief-effort-in-nepal\/","title":{"rendered":"Helping with relief effort in Nepal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/nepal-small.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17827 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/nepal-small.jpg\" alt=\"nepal-small\" width=\"200\" height=\"243\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 200px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 200\/243;\" \/><\/a>The 7.9-magnitude earthquake that struck Nepal in April has killed more than 7,000 people and left thousands injured and many others missing.\u00a0 A group of Furman students, led by Samikshya Pandey of Nepal, has started a fundraising drive to help with the relief effort.<\/p>\n<p>Those wishing to support the cause can bring cash or check donations to Susan Bennett in the Chaplains office by Friday, May 8.\u00a0 Checks may be made out to &#8220;Furman University.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All donations will go to the Society of Ex-Budhanilkantha Students, North America.\u00a0 Pandey, who is from the Kathmandu Valley in Nepal, is an alum of the Budhanilkantha School and has direct connections with its work.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Samikshya Pandey at <a href=\"mailto:samikshya.pandey@furman.edu\">samikshya.pandey@furman.edu<\/a> or Aneesh Borah at <a href=\"mailto:aneesh.borah@furman.edu\">aneesh.borah@furman.edu<\/a>, or visit the Furman website.\u00a0 Susan Bennett can be reached at 864-294-2133 and <a href=\"mailto:susan.bennett@furman.edu\">susan.bennett@furman.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 7.9-magnitude earthquake that struck Nepal in April has killed more than 7,000 people and left thousands injured and many others missing.  A group of Furman students, led by Samikshya Pandey of Nepal, has started a fundraising drive to help with the relief effort. Those wishing to support the cause can bring cash or check donations to Susan Bennett in the Chaplains office by Friday, May 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":14828,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,3,35,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative","category-alumni","category-parent-news","category-study-away-and-international-education"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33276,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3740\/revisions\/33276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}