Susan Sarandon urges tourists to visit earthquake-hit Nepal
Source: AP
KALLABARI, Nepal (AP) — Oscar-winning Hollywood actress Susan Sarandon is urging tourists to come to Nepal, where two powerful earthquakes in the last month killed thousands of people and raised concerns that the nation's vital tourism industry could be seriously hurt.
Sarandon is in Nepal for five days, staying with the famed Kung-fu nuns in a Buddhist monastery and later in an orphanage that was damaged in one of the quakes.
"It is important to emphasize that by the fall, when monsoon ends, people should make their reservations now if they want to help and they want to come and visit because it is very, very important to keep all these jobs alive," Sarandon said Sunday while inaugurating a campaign to build 201 huts for villagers outside of the capital, Kathmandu, who lost their homes in one of the earthquakes.
"I think that would be the next wave — to think of Nepal not as an ongoing disaster, but as a country that has found its way back and has many monuments that haven't fallen and many beautiful areas that can be still safe to trek," she said.
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Oscar-winning Hollywood actress Susan Sarandon, right, comforts Kanti Maya Tamang, who lost her husband and daughter in the April 25 earthquake, at Ramkot village on the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal, Sunday, May 24, 2015. Sarandon is in Nepal for five days, urging tourists to come to the Himalayan nation where two powerful earthquakes have killed thousands of people and made several hundreds of thousands homeless. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
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