{"id":1033715,"date":"2026-09-07T09:34:36","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T04:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1033715"},"modified":"2026-09-07T10:28:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T04:58:20","slug":"from-bank-queues-to-qr-codes-flood-hit-nepals-digital-shift-in-philanthropy-2","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-2\/","title":{"rendered":"From bank queues to QR codes: Flood-hit Nepal&#8217;s digital shift in philanthropy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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. <\/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. The hassle of going to a bank meant he never considered donating to a government relief fund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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":[91,4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1033715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-tribune","category-newspapers","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033715","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=1033715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1033741,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033715\/revisions\/1033741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}