Please help with our urgent appeal for monsoon relied aid 2017, to provide houses for 10 families whose earthquake-damaged homes have been totally destroyed in the current monsoon. €15,000 will provide housing for the worst affected families in the remote village of Inarwaha, Dhanusha district. NLT’s Lalgadh Leprosy Hospital is well placed to offer immediate support through its network of 101 community Self Help Groups operating in monsoon-hit districts. Click to donate:
Please keep the frontline work of Lalgadh Leprosy Hospital in your thoughts and prayers. The hospital is built on a hill and so the building is relatively safe.
The United Nations describes this as the worst monsoon flooding for 15 years in Nepal.
The following is an extract from a recent update by Dr Graeme, the medical director, at Lalgadh Leprosy Hospital & Services Centre, Nepal.
‘Since July, the rains have caused:
- More than 150 deaths
- The destruction of 90,000 homes in floods and landslides.
- The displacement of 461,000 people in 35 districts of the southern Terai region.
- The deaths of around 70,000 livestock and the devastation of crops worth tens of millions of dollars.
Every year, the waters from both monsoon rain and swollen Himalayan rivers inundate Nepal and its neighbours. Latest United Nations figures put the death toll in Nepal, India and Bangladesh above 1,200. At least 41 million people have been directly affected by flooding and landslides.
There is an urgent need for flood-relief items such as clean water, food rations, tarpaulins, blankets, clothes, water purifiers and mosquito nets. With the spread of water-borne diseases such as cholera, donations will also help treat sick children, pregnant mothers and other severely ill people, as well as providing transport to hospitals and medicine for local clinics.’
Take a look below at what people are facing in Inarwaha. Is is about 60 km south-east of our Leprosy hospital. Normally it takes 3 hours to reach the village over rough terrain. We have supported a Self Help Group there since 2010.
Please help with our urgent appeal for monsoon relief aid to support these resilient people. Thank you for reading about our work. You can donate here: