Your Christmas Action
Floods have devastated families in Nepal.
Your help is needed to provide:
- Emergency and Temporary Shelters
- Family Recovery Kits – clothes and households essentials
- Water & Hygiene – boreholes, lartrines, Dignity kits
- School repair & supplies.
Give today to help families when it’s needed most.
“I just stood there, watching the flood take everything we had. I couldn’t do anything but watch.
The children ask when we can go back home. That question breaks my heart every time. I want to answer them, but right now I can’t.
We’re still waiting and hoping. One day we’ll have a place to call our own again.”
Kishor
WHAT HAPPENED
- Continuous intense rainfall 27 – 28 September
- devastating floods and landslides
- hardest hit were people living in informal settlements near rivers & in low-lying areas (those people who are already poorest – the focus of your ALWS action)
PEOPLE AFFECTED
- 239 people killed
- 178 people injured
- 18 people missing
- 3,733 homes destroyed
- 2,260 homes damaged
- 5,933 families affected
Source: Nepal Ministry of Home Affairs: 1 October
MOST IN DANGER
- Children under 5
- Pregnant women
- Lactating mothers
- People with disabilities
- Schoolchildren
YOUR ALWS EMERGENCY ACTION
- Target: 2,525 people
- Lalitpur District, Nepal
- Implemented by ALWS Partner, LWF Nepal
- Delivered by local volunteers and youth
- Supported by ALWS pledge of $50,000
Case Study: Maan Bdr. Tamang
“We can’t keep living on the edge.
Each time the rain starts, I fear what will come next. I worry for my parents and granddaughter.
Our water supply was destroyed. Water is something we all need every day. Without it, everything is harder. I just want to see it fixed, so my family can live in peace.
Because of my disability, I can barely walk on these roads. I feel so helpless – like I’m trapped, with nowhere safe to go.
I’m hoping someone hears us. We just want to feel safe in our own home again.”
ACTION 1: Family Recovery Pack
- Men’s and ladies clothing
- Floor mat
- Woollen blanket
- Cooking and Serving pots
- Cutlery
Needed:125
Unit Cost: $266 – Donate now
ACTION 2: Dignity Kit
- Undergarments
- Sanitary cloth
- Gown
- Petticoat
- Toothbrush and toothpaste
- Bathing and laundry soap
- Comb and nail-clippers
- Solar light – torch
Needed: 100
Unit Cost: $58 – Donate now
ACTION 3: Emergency Shelter
ACTION 4: Disability Support
ACTION 5: Back-to-School Supplies
- Exercise books
- Pen, pencil, eraser
- School bag
- School uniform
Needed: 250
Unit Cost: $85 – Donate now
ACTION 6: Temporary Shelter + Latrine
- CGI sheeting
- Iron / timber poles & beams
- Binding materials
- Salvaged materials
- Mobilise local unskilled labour
- Delivered via Cash Grants
Needed: 75
Unit Cost: $1,033 – Donate now
ACTION 7: Village Water System
- Protect against cholera and diarrhoea
- Renovate or Construct
- Carried out by local community
- Delivered via Cash Grants
Needed: 3
Unit Cost: $12,898 – Donate now
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YOUR CRISIS DONATION IS USED WISELY
You help with practical care
ALWS has committed to provide $100,000 to Flood Crisis Response in Nepal and South Sudan. Should ALWS receive income beyond this amount, those funds will be used to support other life-transforming ALWS projects.
You give ‘no strings attached’ aid
Information in this communication is based on data correct at time of writing, and may change. Funds and other resources designated for the purpose of aid and development will be used only for those purposes and will not be used to promote a particular religious adherence or to support a political party, or to promote a candidate or organisation affiliated to a particular party, or to support welfare activities as defined by DFAT.
For more information, call: 1300 763 407
Your kindness goes to work carefully
In 2023, ALWS ‘overheads’ (fundraising and administration costs as defined by ACFID Code of Conduct) were 15.43%. The 5 year average is 15.77%. A copy of the most current ALWS Annual Report can be viewed at alws.org.au or requested: 1300 763 407.
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Australian Lutheran World Service (ALWS) is The Overseas Aid & Resettlement Agency of the Lutheran Church of Australia – ABN 36 660 551 871
