Where Nepal's flood survivors are sleeping now, and what happens when the school is the shelter

Safety & Advisories Nepal's disaster authority counts about 9,000 households hit, the shelters are school halls, and winter in Rasuwa is roughly ten weeks away. By Laxman Rawal · Sep 1, 2026 Read the full story

Most people who lost a home to the Bhote Koshi flood are sleeping on a thin mat on a hall floor tonight, and the hall usually belongs to a school. Nepal's National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority puts the count at about 9,000 households… Travel Himalaya Nepal · News Read the full story

Where people actually are right now

There is no single camp. Displacement here is spread across half a dozen arrangements, none of them built to hold anyone past September. The Nepal Red Cross Society has opened five emergency camps and says it has reached nearly 5,000 people. Three… Travel Himalaya Nepal · News Read the full story

The numbers disagree, and that is worth knowing

Nothing reconciles yet because nothing can. Phone and internet lines went with the bridges, so ward offices were counting blind for three days. Read these against each other rather than picking the largest and quoting it. Travel Himalaya Nepal · News Read the full story

The school is the shelter, and that is the trap

The first official count, released by the Ministry of Education on 27 August, was 20 schools damaged — five in Rasuwa, seven in Nuwakot, eight in Dhading — with classrooms filled to the desks in mud, sand and silt. By the time UNICEF published its appeal the… Travel Himalaya Nepal · News Read the full story

What winter does to a tarpaulin at 1,750 m

The camps around Trishuli Bazar sit low and warm. The settlements upstream do not. On the Tamang Heritage trail we guide, Syabrubesi stands at 1,550 m, Timure at 1,750 m, Gatlang at 2,238 m and Thuman at 2,340 m. From late November, nights on that ground sit… Travel Himalaya Nepal · News Read the full story

What this means for trekkers

What this means for you Do not come to help. Rasuwa cannot feed and house volunteers while it is short of both. Give cash to an agency already working there instead — cash buys tarpaulins locally and keeps the money in the valley. And if you are booked on… Travel Himalaya Nepal · News Read the full story

How many people are displaced by the Bhote Koshi flood?

No confirmed headcount exists yet. NDRRMA's preliminary figure is about 9,000 households affected, the government's damage assessment reported around 15,000 houses destroyed, and CARE Nepal puts more than 10,000 households in need of emergency shelter. All… Travel Himalaya Nepal · News Read the full story

Are schools in Rasuwa, Nuwakot and Dhading reopening?

Not on any announced date. Some buildings are gone, some are full of silt, and some are housing displaced families. The standard response in Nepal is temporary learning centres on safe ground while buildings are cleared or rebuilt. Travel Himalaya Nepal · News Read the full story

What is the government paying displaced families?

Rs 50,000 per household towards temporary shelter, released in two tranches of Rs 25,000, with tents supplied separately. Longer-term reconstruction waits on the Post-Disaster Needs Assessment, about two months out. Travel Himalaya Nepal · News Read the full story

Will the villages be rebuilt where they were?

NDRRMA has said no. Settlements that were swept away will be relocated after geological study. It is the right call, and it also means displacement lasting well beyond this winter. Our other reporting covers the water and medicine shortage in the camps and… Travel Himalaya Nepal · News Read the full story

Reported from Nepal

Our coverage We are based in Pokhara and we are following this story. Figures are provisional and we date every one of them. Read the full report