Operation Rasuwa Nepal Update

During the late evening of Monday 14 September, two trucks left Kathmandu packed with enough food and hygiene packs for 200 families.

In a monumental journey, along monsoon drenched dirt track roads, which had turned to mud in many places, these trucks made their way to the remote village of Kispang. This is a community of 200 families on the western bank of the Trishuli river, which was devastated by the recent flood. 

It took sixteen hours of driving from Kathmandu on a mountain road to a village that has received no help since the floods. This means families have been waiting almost three weeks for essential supplies. 

On those trucks was a month of food for each family - rice, dal, salt and cooking oil - and family hygiene packs containing soap, laundry soap, toothbrushes, toothpaste, sanitary towels, minor wound dressings and more.

A month of food completely changes what a family can do with its day. It means their children eat tonight and tomorrow and the night after that. It means people can stop worrying about the next few meals, and start working on the first steps to recovering as a family and a community.

A one off £24 donation feeds one family for a month.

To be very clear the Nepali authorities are leading this response and they are doing it in extremely difficult conditions. The  job of REACT  is not to lead, it is to support them, and to show up for the communities that are hardest to reach, where the need is greatest.

We do that by working alongside our extraordinary Nepali partners. Their field coordinators are themselves survivors of this flood, they lost what their neighbours lost, and they went back to work anyway. They know these villages, they know the routes, and they are trusted by the people they are delivering to.

We buy locally, we pay Nepali suppliers directly, and the money stays in the Nepali economy.

Your support has already achieved so much. REACT has funded 2,000 post-disaster sanitation kits, so that families living in damaged homes and holding centres can keep clean water and stay well. And we have delivered eight generators to villages the roads could not reach, so that people cut off from everything could charge a phone.


£24 can provide a month's worth of food and a hygiene pack for a whole family.

£190 can provide a generator that brings a cut off community back into contact with the world.

Kispang is the first of six communities and across all six, hundreds of families are waiting. The first delivery is funded but the other five are not.

We know where these families are, we know what they need. What decides whether we get there is whether the funding is in place.

A donation today will support REACT's work in Nepal. Any funds not needed for this response will go to our Rapid Response Fund, so we can act fast wherever we are needed most.

Donate now.

Thank you for staying with us on this, and for standing with the people of Nepal.