Moruya-based Asha Foundation president Pauline Gleeson said reports were disturbing. 

The foundation supports 47 children in two Kathmandu facilities and funds a school for 180 students in Bhadratar village - which has been devastated. 

It is understood the school has been destroyed. 

Mrs Gleeson said the two Nepal-based Asha staff had lost their homes. 

“One has lost his house and his village is destroyed,” she said. 

“The other doubts she will be able to go back to her flat.

“We are very worried.”

Mrs Gleeson said Asha was trying to get aid to Bhadratar.

Just 60km north of Kathmandu, it usually took four-and-a-half hours to reach, but now landslides and rubble is blocking the roads.

“The communication is still bad, but we have been in contact with one of our coordinators who is formulating a plan for what the village needs,” Mrs Gleeson said. 

“We will send funds tonight (Thursday).”

The number of people still alive in Bhadratar was still unknown. 

“We are still trying to determine how many people are up there,” Mrs Gleeson said. 

“There is so much destruction that getting around is really difficult.”

Mrs Gleeson said Asha was organising supplies. 

“We are getting tents, tarps, food and water organised. 

“They are the most immediate necessities.

“It is getting more and more difficult to get those supplies, because everyone over there is after them.”

The 47 children who are supported by the foundation are still sleeping under tarps in a park in Kathmandu. 

“The two children’s homes are okay,” Mrs Gleeson said.

“They have not been damaged.  

“We are still waiting to see when they can go back.”

Mrs Gleeson was concerned for the village at Kuntabesi, where a combined Asha, Rotary Foundation USA and Moruya Rotary three-year project gave the community clean water, renovated a school and built a toilet. 

“The situation there is terrible,” she said. 

“I have been told 1500 homes have been destroyed up there. 

“I am told they need 2000 tarps there. 

“We have no idea if the school is standing at Kuntabesi.”