Jon Ross

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 sending an...

July 1st, 2026 while all eyes—and resources—are on venezuela (microaid will focus on that area when the dust settles), we are moving forward with the new project for another beneficiary family in nepal, who lost their home in the 2016 gorkha earthquake, which destroyed 650,000 homes. clearing the site and digging the first column foundations. before anything else, we did the puja (blessing) ceremony, where a priest, with one of the family members, blesses the site, the ground, the tools,...

While we were selecting and vetting our next beneficiary family in Nepal, MicroAid was completing the previous home for another earthquake-survivor family. As you may recall, we started with our family's damaged home on their tiny lot down an alley. We cleared the site and started building a comfortable safe permeant home for them to live in for the rest of their lives … and for generations to come. After about six months, we completed the home and it was ready for them to move in. The town...