Nepal: Salesian Emergency Response
May 8, 2015
They awaited no official requests. They sought no outside advice. Instead, just moments after a catastrophic earthquake ravaged the region of Kathmandu, Nepal -- and at great peril to their own lives -- Salesian missionaries rushed to assist and tend to the victims.
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