The owners of a Nepalese restaurant in Falmouth have thanked everyone who helped raise funds to help those affected by two massive earthquakes in the Himalayan country earlier this year.

The owners of the Gurkha Nepalese Cuisine on the Moor raised around £6,000 with a charity dinner for around 200 people in May, along with other donations, and has now seen the results of the fundraising as new homes spring up for those made homeless by the quakes in April.

Ritu Shrestha from the Gurkha said: "At the time all the aid was focusing on Kathmandu, and we wanted to help the villages."

The restaurant gave the money to the group We Build Nepal, which organised Project Siureni, helping to rebuild the village of Siureni in Dhading, central Nepal, where families were living under tarpaulin as all the houses had been destroyed.

During their time there the group aimed to build 31 new homes, using local bamboo and corrugated tin sheets paid for by the donations of the Gurkha.

Ritu's daughter Shristi Shrestha, who led the group, wrote on Facebook: "They worked from morning till dawn, throughout the scorching sun, clearing out the rubble, going around the forests bringing back bamboo, framing them up, setting up the shelters."

Former Falmouth School and Truro College student Shristi said the group built shelters for elderly villagers, those who could not carry out the building work, and for people who had no manpower and no one else in the family, but many locals wanted to build their own homes, and were happy simply to be given building materials.

Ritu said: "We wanted to thank the people who donated, without their help we would not have succeeded.

"Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.

"We are so happy, our hard work and your kind support were able to bring the smile to their faces."

The restaurant is currently taking bookings for another fundraiser for the Nepal Disaster Fund, which will be held on Friday, August 28, from 7.30pm.