Relief Convoy Heads for Uttargaya’s Cut-Off Wards as RRN Reaches 166 Households in Kalika, Rasuwa
11 September 2026
Rural Reconstruction Nepal dispatched six trucks of relief materials from Kathmandu on the morning of 11 September, bound for Danda Gaun in Rasuwa, where they are intended for Wards 1, 2 and 3 of Uttargaya Rural Municipality. These are the wards that municipal leadership confirmed to RRN’s field team two days earlier as still unreached by any relief distribution.
Three of the trucks carry food items. The other three carry non-food relief, including winter clothing and blankets, making this the first RRN consignment to bring winterisation materials into the Rasuwa response. The convoy is travelling the long southern route via Galchi in Dhading, a detour made necessary by the damage along the direct approach to northern Rasuwa.
Two RRN frontline staff, Mr. Duryodhan Adhikari and Mr. Raj Chauhan, are travelling with the trucks and will carry out distribution alongside local volunteers on arrival. The team is overnighting at Deurali and is expected to reach Danda Gaun on 12 September.
Distribution in Ramche
Food distribution began at 11:30 am on 11 September in Ramche, Ward 1 of Kalika Rural Municipality, reaching 166 flood-affected households. Ward Chairperson Mr. Dawa Lama was present. The distribution followed directly from an assessment carried out in Ramche the previous day, when RRN’s field team met Chairperson of Kalika Rural Municipality Mr. Hari Krishna Devkota and other municipal officials to discuss the situation of affected and displaced families and the needs of families whose members remain missing.
RRN teams are currently working across Betrawati, Kalika and Dhunche for continuing coordination with local authorities and other responding organisations.
A response still short of what is needed
Two weeks after the 26 August glacier collapse near the Nepal–Tibet border sent a debris surge down the Bhote Koshi and Trishuli rivers, the disaster has affected an estimated 84,270 people across five districts, around 32,000 of them children. NDRRMA reporting as of 10 September records 1,377 confirmed deaths and 5,130 people still missing, with 3,547 people sheltering across 35 holding centres.
The humanitarian funding position remains difficult. The UN Flash Appeal of US$49.6 million is less than 30 per cent funded, and emergency stockpiles are depleting even as needs in northern Rasuwa continue to be met almost entirely by helicopter and drone. More than 45 kilometres of highway remain damaged and 41 motorable bridges were swept away in the flood.
RRN’s work in Rasuwa is supported by Welthungerhilfe and Aasaman Nepal. For coordination on the Rasuwa response, contact Er. Nirajan Pokharel, Project Focal Person, at [email protected], or Lil Bahadur Karki, Field Coordinator based in Rasuwa, at [email protected].