The south Asian country was struck by disaster on the morning of April 25, 2015.
An earthquake of 7.8 magnitude, which was followed by another 17 days later, plunged Nepal into crisis, instantly making millions of citizens homeless, claiming the lives of almost 9,000 people and destroying the nation’s infrastructure.
Aid soon arrived from around the world to help with the immediate response, though the sheer scale of the damage means – 18 months on – a huge amount of work must still be done.
Inspired to help, the team of 42 Standard Chartered employees, all alumni of the bank’s graduate programme, used three days of annual volunteer leave provided by the bank – main sponsor of Liverpool FC – to travel to Nepal in mid-October after more than a year’s worth of planning and preparation for the trip, which had to be rescheduled on two previous occasions.