Nepal flash floods: donate to Save the Children’s Emergency Fund
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Please donate to Save the Children’s Emergency Fund so we can continue with our response delivering emergency aid in this extremely challenging environment.
Sarthak Thapa / Save the Children
Image: Children play at a child friendly space set up by Save the Children.
A collapsing glacier has caused a devastating flood in northern Nepal. The impact of the disintegrating rock and ice was as powerful as a moderate earthquake, with debris then surging downstream. Waters rose without warning, leaving children and families with almost no time to reach safety.
Two weeks after the flood swept through communities across Nepal’s Rasuwa and Nuwakot districts, 1342 people have been killed, and 4,886 people are still missing. After flood waters wiped entire villages off the map, survivors are living in crowded temporary shelters, children are showing signs of psychological distress and families are worried for their futures.
Children are incredibly vulnerable stuck in overcrowded temporary holding centres without enough clean water or medicine. Some are still separated from their families.
As well as shelter, food, water and emergency healthcare, children also need protection, emotional support and a safe place to learn.
They told us we were moving so we got on a truck and moved from where we were staying but we arrived at this centre which has more people and is more crowded. I cannot stay inside, it is too stuffy. I want to play and stay outside.
Ishaan*, 9, was moved from one holding centre to another along with his family and was still wearing the same muddy and dirty clothes he had on when the floods hit.
How Save the Children is helping children and their families in Nepal
- Save the Children’s response teams are in some of the worst-affected areas – Rasuwa, Nuwakot and Dhading.
- They have already dispatched tarpaulins, baby essentials, toys mosquito nets, period products, hygiene kits, blankets and kitchen utensils to more than 1,000 families.
- They have emergency supplies ready in six warehouses across Nepal, able to support up to 10,000 families.
- Save the Children’s team has reunited children with their families and are working to set up safe spaces and temporary facilities where children, women and girls can receive protection and support.
Children’s lives changed in an instant. Some have lost their homes and belongings and a sense of security. For a child, losing a home is not just losing a building, it is losing the place where they feel safe. – Tara Chettry Country Director, Save the Children in Nepal
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* Names changed to protect identities.