Flood Relief
Place
Rautahat, Parsa, Dang and Banke
Who
Implementation:
Chay Ya Nepal
Partners
Chay Ya Austria,
Land Tirol,
Namaste e.V.,
Friends for Nepal,
Dautari
When
2017 - 2019
For
more than 500 families
Status
Completed
Project
Extremely strong & weeks of monsoon rains cost hundreds of lives in Nepal in 2017. The heavy rainfall caused severe damage, especially in southern Nepal. In the Nepalese lowlands of the Terai, economic centre & granary of the mountain state, temporarily more than 80% of the surface was under water. People whose houses, cattle and fields were washed away by the flood were faced with nothing. Chay Ya Nepal quickly reactivated the existing earthquake rescue chain, enabling relief supplies and clean water to reach the victims as quickly as possible.
THANK YOU in this critical time directly after the flood disaster over 2400 people – that is approx. 450 families who became homeless – were supplied with clean drinking water, pasta, cookies, dry food, rice etc.! As a result, we distributed tarpaulins and corrugated iron roofs for emergency shelters to the families, the corrugated iron roofs could then also be reused for the reconstruction of their destroyed houses.
Updates
Update August 2019
Unfortunately, these violent monsoon storms now occur almost every year in the already very poor and vulnerable region of Nepal. So also in summer 2019 we had to gather our strength and activate the rescue chains to help the people on the spot and to provide them with the most necessary things.
In only three weeks, another 600 families could be provided with much needed relief supplies to overcome this terrible time and to protect themselves a little bit from the elements. We have to assume that the situation will continue to worsen in the coming years and that the inhabitants of the Terai have to expect further natural disasters. Therefore it is even more important to build up resilience in this region and help them to develop sustainably.
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