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Volume 67, No. 18 | Thursday, April 30, 2015
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The photos Johann Harnisch emailed home to Creston from Nepal in recent days offer a personal glimpse of what residents of Kathmandhu are experiencing in the aftermath of Saturday’s 7.8-magnitude earthquake. Piles of brick rubble and teams of medical personnel in full emergency mode, working outdoors, paint a grim picture of a region best known
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for its proximity to Mount Everest. Johann, 23, flew from Canada to Nepal on March 31, part of a team of dentists, doctors and students to hold classes and clinics in a large city a 14-hour bus ride from Kathmandu. “Hundreds of people flocked to receive medical attention,” Michelle Harnisch told the Advance in an email that included photos she and Johann’s father, Pastor Rudy Harnisch, have received since Sunday. The group of volunteers was co-
ordinated by ADRA (Adventist Development and Relief Agency), a Seventh-day Adventist international aid organization. As they went about their mission to provide routine medical care, Johann could hardly have imagined what he would soon face. “Arriving back at Kathmandu last Thursday to see the rest of the team off, Johann and James (another volunteer) stayed with a local doctor and his wife, waiting to board their planes the following week,” Michelle wrote. “But the
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Saturday morning events changed everything. “Close to noon on Saturday they experienced a violent shaking of the building they were in, similar, Johann said, to the shaking of the bus they rode in over the mountainous roads of Nepal. “Running outside, they witnessed buildings crumbling and mountains giving way to clouds of dust.
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