Portal Shelters
Portal Shelters
PORTAL SHELTERS during the LANDSLIDES in 2020
Heavy rainfall has discharged a record number of landslides in 2020, destroying more than 940 homes in the Sindhupalchowk District . Portal would like to provide relief to a community where 18 homes have been lost. If you would like to fund a shelter or contribute to this project, please click on the link below. Thank you!
PORTAL SHELTERS during the EARTHQUAKE in 2015
On April 25th 2015, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake rocked Nepal leaving many homeless. In the months following the quake, Portal worked with survivors to build durable shelters that keep families warm, dry, and safe from aftershocks. The Portal Shelter was designed in partnership with organizations and individuals across Nepal and the globe, we delivered over 5,000 shelters to those in need.
596 SHELTERS
DONATED BY 102 INDIVIDUALS
The funds for these shelters was donated directly to Portal. We prepared the shelter kits and distributed them in locations where our staff had personal connections and could best determine the need.
4,768 SHELTERS
PURCHASED & DISTRIBUTED BY 137 ORGANIZATIONS & INDIVIDUALS
The funds for these shelters were raised by local and international organizations. These groups found villages with demonstrated needs and came to us. Portal provided shelter kits, training, and tools to empower organizations to make a difference.
Over 40 towns and municipalities have received shelters across the regions worst effected by the earthquake.
PORTAL HAS FINISHED SHELTER PRODUCTION FOR THE 2015 EARTHQUAKE AND IS NOW FOCUSING UPON LONGTERM BUILDING SOLUTIONS. CHECK OUT PORTAL PREFAB FOR MORE INFORMATION.
Shelter Impact
Shelter Impact
SHELTER STORIES
The Portal Shelters project touched thousands of lives. Look Below to learn about the impact they have had.
A STORY OF PRIDE AND THANKS
BHOTSIPA TEENDHARA VILLAGE
THE PORTAL YARD
STORIES
Bhotsipa Teendhara is a village in the Sindhupalchok region of Nepal. Only 75km from the capital, it takes over 5 hours for a truck to cross the beaten roads from Kathmandu.
The devastating earthquake took the lives of 22 villagers. It left the rest of the community both emotionally and in some cases physically scarred. Finding reassurance in numbers, all 700 villagers gathered in a field the first night to sleep. They strung together tarpaulin sheets for shelter that were quickly carried away by the wind, leaving the villagers to face the rain, along with everything else.
Maya Tamang is a corn farmer. Before the earthquake, she lived with her husband and two sons in their ancestral family house - a home that has been passed down through the family for generations.
“When the earthquake began I was sitting in front of the house. I tried to get up and run but I couldn’t because of the shaking. All of my things got buried inside of the house, even my clothes. I had to spend a night outside without proper clothes.”
Patali Taman usually spends the day with her two young grandsons. During the earthquake, their safety was her first thought. When the shaking started she scooped them up, one in each arm, and tried to run out of the house. She was hit by falling rubble and a large rock struck her left knee, pinning her to the ground.
My house was dancing and I was dancing also."
Thankfully, Patali and her her grandsons all survived the incident. Before receiving a Portal Shelter, she had been living in a small shelter built using rubble and a tin sheet.
The force of the earthquake disabled phone networks across Nepal in the wake of the April 25th disaster. For remote villages like Sipitar in Sindhupalchowk, this meant that access to information and news about the destruction was very hard to come by - villagers could assess the damage based only on what they saw around them. Many individuals simply assumed that this shaking must have been felt by the whole world, and that cities from New York to London were in ruins.