the world’s attention is now on the devastating flash-flood that tore through the river valley towns along the nepal-tibet border. only about 60 miles away from kathmandu. our heart goes out to the victims and their families—and all the people of nepal. microaid's workers are safe and accounted for, but they are devastated—somebody always knows, or is related to, someone in nepal. it seems the disaster began when the lower portion of a glacier collapsed high in the himalayas