Flooding in Nepal: part one, local aid and how you can help
It’s been nine years since floods broke out on the Nepal-India border , and four since Kathmandu was hit with an earthquake in June of that year, and now, most recently, the country is faced with devastation from floods in Rasuwa, the effects of which have rippled outward from the region. It’s difficult to visualize or put into words what this means, so I am deferring to reporting from my friend Hemraj Dangal in Kathmandu, who has been organizing relief efforts. What follows is a timeline from the initial flooding of 26 August. I asked Hemraj to send me this to give some idea of the scope of the disaster from someone on the ground as well as to shine some light on those relief efforts and how others can help. Hemraj and his team have been concentrating on helping the displaced in Bidur Ward 5. Bridges have been washed out in surrounding wards and overland travel is still precarious. The broader scope is that over 84,000 people have been affected and to date, 1400 deaths hav...
