BOULDER — Seven thousand miles from Kathmandu, where the death toll from Saturday’s earthquake continues to climb, roughly 200 Nepalese Coloradans huddled together Tuesday evening on Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall to send a message back home: “We are there.”
“We want to say that we are with them,” said Sharad Acharya, president of Rocky Mountain Friends of Nepal. “It’s a very hard feeling for us right now. A lot of us haven’t been able to go back to work. We’re constantly watching TV, calling to make sure everyone is safe.”
In Boulder and other pockets of Colorado, people who grew up or have family in Nepal are mourning the losses of so many of the country’s people.
“I can’t do anything over there, even though I want to help,” said Sonu Gauli, a young woman who moved from Nepal to Boulder three years ago. “I feel really bad being outside the country, doing nothing. It’s really sad for me. My whole family is back there. My husband is back there. They are suffering, and we are having our normal life here.”
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