Gap year student raising funds for Laprak

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An 18 year old gap year student from Hendersonville has taken up a personal drive to raise funds for earthquake survivors in Laprak.

Kristian Gaylord is based in Gorkha, near the epicenter of the April quake, where he is delivering aid on foot to Larprak village. He is raising funds to ensure people in the village make it through the harsh winter.

Gaylord first arrived in Nepal in October for a trek to the Everest Base Camp. When he heard stories of the suffering in Laprak, he decided to cancel his planned trips to Thailand and Vietnam to head up closer the epicenter in Gorkha. For the months before Christman, Kristian had been volunteering on a school construction project in another remote village of Asrang.

“It’s remarkable to me, and I’m proud that my 18-year-old son has decided to go to that place where people are between life and death,” said Ken Gaylord, who had joined his son for a month to trek to the Everest base camp.

“This is my first time in Nepal and I love it,” he said recently. “It’s quite a wonderful country — great food, nice people, cheap prices and a truly amazing landscape.”

The fund-raising goal has been set at $46,000 to cover the cost of medicines and blankets for 2,000 households in the area of Laprak, where overnight temperatures can be between 5 to 10 degrees Fahrenheit.

A funding goal of $46,000 has been set to cover the cost of medicines and blankets for about 2,000 households in the area around Laprak, where overnight temperatures range around 5 to 10 degrees Fahrenheit.

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