She would want it focused on the Nepali people, who have been displaced or are in need of aid. She would want it to be on the impact of the climate crisis, especially on the world’s most economically vulnerable populations. She would want the attention on them and how we are going to help them.
This is something the poorest people of the world are affected by. It’s not the New Yorkers, it’s the people who are in these parts of the world. For Renee, that would be heartbreaking.” Like many of the missing Australians, Renee arrived at Gyirong Port just 10 minutes before the flood struck.
The area was one of the hardest hit – images from Chinese rescue teams show the area completely flattened. Huge buildings, power lines, everything – just wiped away. Renee is a disability support worker who lives on the Sunshine Coast.
She has been with her partner, Shaun, an emergency nurse, since they were 15, and they share two daughters in their 20s. Clair has set up a GoFundMe to get the three of them over to Nepal – Shaun wants to travel to the port to try to find any signs of her. And their daughters, Lily and Ruby, don’t want him to go alone.
The practicalities, and what can actually be done in the first few days, it hasn’t been possible [to enter the area], but they still want to go,” she said. But until they know for certain, they would hold hope, she said. We know how bad this was and where she was.
But until they find her, everyone’s got this little slither of hope that maybe she’s stuck somewhere and can’t get out, or she’s injured. But we understand the reality of this situation.” Like most Australians, Renee had come to Nepal on a pilgrimage. Spry said her sister was a “deeply spiritual” person who loved to help people.
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