Save the Children Mobilizes Long-Term Recovery and Infrastructure Rebuilding Efforts in Flood-Ravaged Nepal

Residents salvage their belongings from a building damaged by severe flash flooding in the Nuwakot district of Nepal. Save the Children is currently prioritizing basic survival needs in the hard-hit Nuwakot district, providing vital distributions of food, clean water, diapers, and toothbrushes.

“Everywhere pretty much in the affected area, the water sources are contaminated,” stated Amy Lefevre of Save the Children, reporting directly from Nepal. “Nobody should really be bathing in that water, let alone drinking that water.”

The humanitarian organization views its current mission as an extended relief operation with a strong focus on long-term reconstruction. “Once the story's over, everybody's going to fly out,” Lefevre noted. “The people who are left here are the communities whose homes have been washed away.”

“The next step will be, 'I need a job, I need to rebuild my life, I need a livelihood,'” said Lefevre, adding that the organization has already initiated discussions with local authorities to coordinate the recovery process. “Children need to be back in school,” she emphasized. “They need to be in education again.”

To support survivors dealing with the immediate aftermath of the disaster, psychosocial counselors have been deployed to child-friendly zones within the organization's temporary shelters. “I think it's really hard to comprehend how children are going to process this trauma and this event that they've lived through,” she concluded.