8/30/2026
Qatar Charity announced that it will launch an urgent humanitarian response and distribute blankets to people affected by the devastating floods that struck Nepal last Wednesday.
Immediately after the floods, Qatar Charity activated its Emergency Response Cell within the Humanitarian Operations Department at its headquarters in Qatar. Meanwhile, its Crisis and Information Centre continues to closely monitor the evolving humanitarian situation.
Qatar Charity remains in direct and continuous contact with its field office in Nepal to assess urgent humanitarian needs, based on the office’s coordination meetings with the relevant Nepalese authorities and its monitoring of humanitarian response efforts in the affected areas.
The most urgent life-saving humanitarian needs of flood-affected people in Nepal include ready-to-eat hot meals, mattresses and blankets, emergency health care, infant formula, and emergency shelter.
Reports issued by Nepal’s National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority (NDRRMA) on Thursday, 27 August, indicated that 10,000 families required urgent humanitarian assistance. According to the reports, 165 bodies recovered, 247 people remained missing, and 73 people were injured. The floods also caused extensive damage to infrastructure, destroying 35 motorable bridges and 45 suspension bridges and damaging at least 40 kilometers of paved roads. The Authority said that heavy rainfall and difficult terrain were hampering search and rescue operations.
The U.S. Geological Survey described the event as a debris avalanche and flash flood, likely triggered by a rapid slope failure involving a glacier. It also noted that a second seismic event was recorded approximately three hours later.