Flood and Landslide situation update - leprazending.nl · Flood and Landslide situation update TLM Nepal 08/18/2017 Following the devastating flood and landslide that hit the southern

Flood and Landslide situation update

TLM Nepal

08/18/2017

Following the devastating flood and landslide that hit the southern plain of Nepal, several districts are facing massive need of shelter,

food and clean water. According to the latest update by Reliefweb, overall, 45,880 have been displaced, 242,097 families are severely

affected, 9,595 houses are completely damaged and 22,218 are partially damaged. Apart from that, at least 70 people have lost their

lives and several are missing. The team total of 8,300 trained security forces including Nepal police, Nepal Army, Armed police, and

civil servants have been continuously operating to diligently carry out search and rescue task in all the affected districts. A cabinet

meeting held on 13th August has decided to provide Nrs, 200,000 to

those who have lost their family members in the flood and landslide. The

cabinet also decided to send the stockpiles in the affected district

immediately however, the process has been very slow.

Updates from Parsa, Rautahat and Chitwan districts:

After the visit of flood affected areas of Nichuta VDC in Parsa district of

Nepal, the Project Manager of TLM Nepal, Bishnu Dhungana, and his

team updated that out of 75 houses, 15 are completely collapsed and

rest are severely damaged by sharp rise in flood. The team also visited

affected VDCs in Rautahat district to find out the major towns of the

district have been inundated with some places still inaccessible.

Similarly, out of 41 flood affected people in Madi Municipality in Chitawan

district, 13 are directly associated with TLM Nepal project. The team is

currently striving to bring new updates and disaggregated data to carry

out its relief effort as soon as possible. The relief packages will be

distributed by TLM Nepal through the mobilization of cooperatives

members in its working districts.

Information about Leprosy affected people under Reclaim EDR:

The southern belt of Jhapa and parts of Sunsari district is highly affected areas in far eastern region of Nepal. Based on the information

by Andrew Sithling, Director of Nepal Leprosy Fellowship from Jhapa, all the VDCs selected for Reclaim EDR projects in the past has

been affected by flood. Out of 261 houses, 169 are partially damaged and 92 are fully damaged. The people with completely damaged

Flood affected victim showing his fully damaged house in Parsa district.

Photo: TLM Nepal/Parsa

house do not have food to survive and appropriate place to sleep at night since their belongings

were swept away or damaged completely by the filthy muddy flood. Some of the homeless

people have managed to live under the roof of locally made tarpaulin, however, the safe shelter

have become a vital to protect them from rain as well as potential waterborne diseases.

In Jhapa LPEP mop-up activities is still going on but some affected people approached the

LPEP team and said, "We need food and shelter instead of taking single dose of Rifamipicin". The relief materials are being distributed through the team of representatives from local authority, newly elected team, existing CBOs, active NGOs in the local community so that the

distribution would be fair and appropriate however, people are complaining that the relief materials are being distributed very slowly.

Susmita Mahato studies in a Primary School in the

nearby village at Madi, Chitwan. She has left leg

amputation and uses artificial limbs provided by the

Leprosy Mission Nepal. The artificial limbs have

helped her go to school and perform daily household

works. A girl from poor neighborhood spent her

childhood with her parents in a house made by mud

and breaks with hardly enough food to sustain the life

but she has no house to protect her from the heavy

rains and burning sun anymore. On August 12 2017,

Susmita house could not hold its strength to stand

strong. Now, the homeless family is forced to stay in

the neighbor’s house as internally displaced people.

Susmita’s fully damaged house in Madi,

Chitwan district. Photo: TLM

Nepal/Chitwan Susmita Mahato in Madi, Chitwan district.

Photo: TLM Nepal/Chitwan

Susmita Mahato from Madi, Chitwan district.

Photo: TLM Nepal/Chitwan

Bethel Church in the village was reported to

be damaged by the flood Photo:

NLFDM/Jhapa

Other Pictures:

Flood affected women staying under tarpaulin in Parsa district. Photo: TLM Nepal/Parsa

Flood damaged the crops, only means of survival of local people in Parsa district. Photo: TLM Nepal/Parsa

Fully Damaged house in Rautahat district. Photo: TLM Nepal/Rautahat

Damaged grain storage in Rautahat district. Photo: TLM Nepal/Rautahat

The lives of people have been largely affected by the flooded water in Rautahat district. Photo: TLM Nepal/Rautahat

Crops destroyed by the flooded water in Rautahat district. Photo: TLM Nepal/Rautahat