Didi Dache is a leading taxi-hailing app in China. (Photo : www.technode.com)
China's biggest taxi app companies Didi Dache and Kuaidi Dache extended a cash donation of 1 million yuan ($161,200) to China Women's Development Foundation (CWDF), a non-profit Chinese social welfare organization, to provide aid for Nepal as well as China's Tibet, which were jolted by a 7.8-magnitude earthquake on Saturday.
Through CWDF's program called "Health Express for Mothers," Didi Dache and Kuaidi Dache's donation will be used to conduct an emergency medical relief operation as well as reconstruction of medical and healthcare facilities.
The two taxi-hailing companies are also appealing for other Chinese companies and the public to lend a helping hand to Nepal earthquake victims.
Earlier this year, the two companies merged to establish one of the world's largest smartphone-based transport services valued at $6 billion.
Aside from the taxi app companies, the Chinese government also donated 20 million yuan ($3.3 million) worth of humanitarian aid and has sent 114 medical experts to Nepal. The first batch, which consists of 62 medical experts, arrived on the day after the earthquake, while the rest flew from Beijing on Monday.
According to American news site CNN, the death toll in Nepal has risen to 5,500, while the injured numbered to 10,915.
In China's Tibet, located in the southwestern part of the mainland, there were 25 reported deaths, 383 injured and four missing.
The local government also announced that a total of 82 temples were damaged.
Nepal minister of information and communications Minendra Rijal appeals for more aids as eight million people across the country are still suffering from the devastations the earthquake has caused.
