When Oregon National Guardsman and trained medic Shane Basi traveled to Katmandu, Nepal to learn more about Buddhism, he had no idea he would be thrust into the middle of a natural disaster.

Six months after Basi arrived in Katmandu in August 2014, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake rocked Nepal and killed over 9,000 people and injured 23,000. Basi, an Iraq and Afghanistan veteran, drew from his military and medic experience to help rescue survivors and nurse them back to health.

One of those survivors was Khendro, a seven year-old girl Basi discovered trapped beneath a slab of concrete.

“She was in the most critical condition out of about 35 patients that we had,” Basi told ABC News. “With bamboo stretchers that we put together [we] took her and the other four off of the mountain down to the Nepali army base and she was airlifted by an Indian helicopter to the hospital in Kathmandu.”

Feeling a connection to the young survivor, Basi raised $6,000 to pay for her medical bills and tirelessly works alongside Handicap International to provide Khendro physical therapy. Recently, they reached a new recovery milestone and got Khendro a prosthetic leg.

“We’ve just been waiting for this for so long,” Basi said. “This is the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.”

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