The flood
On 26 August 2026, a glacier collapse above the Lhende Khola sent a flash flood down the Bhote Koshi into the Trishuli, reaching Rasuwa, Nuwakot, Dhading, Gorkha and Chitwan.
How it happened
- 26 AugThe flood
- Days later100 people pledged in a day
- First week200 people, most never met each other
- SeptemberA month of conversations on the ground
- SeptemberThe model changed
- By year endChoose a partner
What changed
Partner organisations run cohorts, not one-to-one matches, so the model followed how the work is actually done
Nobody is being rescued.
Rasuwa rebuilt itself after 2015. It’ll do it again, with or without a hundred people on the internet.
Holding a place covers one cost, narrowly, at a moment when narrow things go far. Everyone in that valley has come through more with less than I ever have. There’s at least as much to learn from them as there is to offer.
Families lead
Sponsorship covers schooling. How a home is run, what it needs and what comes next stays with the people living it.
Children decide what’s shared
Beyond report cards, nothing about a child goes out without asking them first.
Started by a Nepali who doesn’t live there anymore.
I’ve been abroad long enough that I now find out about my own country’s disasters from a phone in a different time zone.
Every time, I’ve done something — a fundraiser, a drive, money sent to people I trust. Most of it helped for a few weeks, and then the news cycle moved and so did I.
This time I wanted something with a longer tail.
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