My name is Eoin White. I am a retired Burnaby Firefighter and have spent the last 12 years taking trekkers to the Nepal Himalaya's and Mount Everest base camp. In that time I have developed deep personal friendships and bonds with many Nepali and Sherpa families. To them I am Pappa. I have sons and daughters and now grandchildren. ( by virtue of their belief in re-incarnation, they feel that I have treated them like their fathers would have had they been alive) This picture is of Ngima Yangjee and her two younger sisters and her daughter Pasang Chutin. Two years ago Ngima Yangjees mother passed away leaving 21-year-old Ngima Yangjee to care for her two younger sisters. Although she is now married, her husband makes an average salary of $15.00 a day. Their single room house is destroyed and they are living a tent. They have no where to go. She is one of the 7 families who have lost everything and have little hope of replacing their homes in the near future. I intend to build them new homes. It costs about $5000.00 to build a modest home in Nepal so I'm hoping to raise $35,000.

Here is a story about the campaign in Burnaby Now.

http://www.burnabynow.com/news/retired-burnaby-captain-fundraising-for-nepal-1.1925222