Nepal Floods 2026
In late August 2026 heavy rain flooded large parts of Nepal, taking houses, roads and power lines, and in some places taking people. Global Sikhs sent teams into the flood-affected districts, and they are still there.
This page is the record of what those teams have done since the water came down. It is written from their field reports and from the video they sent back.
27 August
The team reaches ground zero
A Global Sikhs team arrived in the flood-affected districts on the evening of 27 August and started checking the damage that night. They sat with local people, worked out which places needed help first, and planned the first stage of relief with the families who had lost the most.
Global Sikhs said the teams would stay in Nepal and keep sending aid for as long as it was needed. Within days there were three separate teams working in three different parts of the country.
Trishuli
Search and rescue
Global Sikhs put a dedicated Search and Rescue team near the Trishuli Hydropower Plant, one of the places the floods hit hardest. The team looked for people who were missing and brought them back to their families. Where someone had not survived, the team recovered the body so that the family could take them home.
The search ran for several days, across the riverbed and the landslide scars above it. The work was hard to do and hard to carry afterwards, and the volunteers stayed with it because the families needed an answer.
This clip includes the recovery of a person who did not survive the flood.
In the camps
Langar, every day
Volunteers set up langar, the practice of cooking and serving free food to anyone who comes. They cooked hot meals each day and carried them to the relief camps, and to families who were sleeping at a relative’s house because their own house had gone.
Everyone in the line gets the same plate and eats sitting on the floor. In the camps that line ran the length of the shelter, and it ran again the next day.
Reaching Nuwakot
Thirty-six hours to Nuwakot
Nuwakot stayed cut off after the floods. One team drove for thirty-six hours to get in, past roads the river had taken and roads that were still under water. They reached Bidur, the district headquarters, started langar, and began handing out the supplies the district had not been able to receive.
The town they arrived in was under silt.
Bedding and light
Through the nights
A team working the relief camps sent back one need before any other: there was not enough bedding for the people who had been brought in. Global Sikhs bought new bedding and took it to the camps, carried in by hand, stack by stack.
The floods pulled the power down across whole districts. Where there was no electricity the teams handed out solar lights, so a family could see each other in their own shelter after dark.
What happens next
This is not a few weeks of work
Global Sikhs has said that Nepal is not a short project. The teams will stay through recovery and rehabilitation, for as long as that takes, and they keep checking what each community needs now rather than what it needed last week.
Alongside the daily relief the teams support the wider Shelter Homes programme, clean drinking water, and sanitation for the people still living in temporary camps.
How you can help
The work runs on the Sangat
Global Sikhs runs this response on the support of the Sangat, the wider community. That support is what lets the teams keep buying supplies, cooking langar and getting into the districts the roads no longer reach.
If you want to help the Nepal response, or you are looking for someone in the flood-affected districts, the field helpline is open.
Global Sikhs helpline — Nepal flood response.
