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Six days after a glacier collapse sent floodwaters crashing into Rasuwa and Nuwakot, the scale of this disaster has grown far beyond what we first reported. Back then, 95 were confirmed dead. Today, that number has surpassed 1,000, and the number of missing has climbed even faster. Nepal's disaster agency has now listed roughly 4,500 names of people still unaccounted for.
Praise God, more than 10,000 people have been rescued so far. But the situation remains volatile, and additional rain in the forecast could bring further devastation before this crisis is over.
For as many as 500 workers still trapped in a dozen hydropower project tunnels, hope is running thin. They called for help during the initial flooding — six days later, they could be running out of oxygen. Every hour is critical.
Above ground, the wreckage tells its own story. In Nuwakot, four-story buildings are buried to the roofline, with trucks still underneath. Bridges, roads, and power stations are gone. Some villages haven’t been reached at all, and an estimated 10,000 households are in urgent need of relief.
In the middle of all this, our brothers and sisters at Convoy of Hope are already there. They went into Nepal after the 2015 earthquake and stayed — eleven years of feeding schoolchildren, training farmers, and walking alongside the Nepali church. Their people know these roads and these villages.
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