{"id":1033623,"date":"2026-09-07T08:37:45","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T03:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1033623"},"modified":"2026-09-07T09:22:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T03:52:40","slug":"from-bank-queues-to-qr-codes-flood-hit-nepals-digital-shift-in-philanthropy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/07\/from-bank-queues-to-qr-codes-flood-hit-nepals-digital-shift-in-philanthropy\/","title":{"rendered":"From bank queues to QR codes: Flood-hit Nepal&#8217;s digital shift in philanthropy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KATHMANDU: Once, donating to government relief funds in Nepal meant carrying cash, finding a bank and standing in a queue. <\/p>\n<p>Now, for many, it takes just a phone, a few taps and a QR code scan. <\/p>\n<p>For guitarist Bobby Lama of the band Mongolian Heart, the change was personal. <\/p>\n<p>During the 2015 earthquake and the COVID-19 pandemic, Lama joined rescue and relief efforts, carrying cash himself to communities in need. <\/p>\n<p>The hassle of going to a bank meant he never considered donating to a government relief fund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KATHMANDU: Once, donating to government relief funds in Nepal meant carrying cash, finding a bank and standing in a queue. Now, for many, it takes just a phone, a few taps and a QR code scan. For guitarist Bobby Lama of the band Mongolian Heart, the change was personal. During the 2015 earthquake and the COVID-19 pandemic, Lama joined rescue and relief efforts, carrying cash himself to communities in need. The hassle of going to a bank meant he never considered donating to a government relief fund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1033623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1033623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1033664,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033623\/revisions\/1033664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}