Emergency Response
Relief and Rehabilitation

LWF Nepal always stands prepared to carry out emergency and relief operations in the wake of periodic and civil emergencies.

Bhutanese refugees and Tibetan New Arrivals

LWF Nepal was the first INGO to respond to the needs of the Nepali-speaking Bhutanese refugees after their arrival in Nepal in 1991, following the Bhutanese government’s ethnic cleansing policy. For the past 17 years, the organisation has been providing basic materials and services essential for their survival, and for claiming their right to a life of dignity. In 2007, it rendered similar services to over 107,000 Bhutanese refugees living in seven camps in the eastern region of Nepal in close collaboration with UNHCR, WFP and I/NGOs.

Food supply distribution in a Bhutanese refugee camp

	It also provided over 2100 Tibetan New Arrivals, who stay in transit in Nepal before they move to India, with food and non-food items. Health and transportation services were also given to them. The new arrivals stay temporarily in the Tibetan Reception Centre in Kathmandu. LWF Nepal with support from UNHCR runs a project for such Tibetans.
Tibetan new arrivals receiving subsistence allowance in Kathmandu

Refugee host community

Since 1994, LWF Nepal has been contributing to sustainable developments efforts of the communities that surround the Bhutanese refugee camps in eastern Nepal, creating employment opportunities and promoting harmonious relations between refugees and local communities.

With guidance and technical support from LWF Nepal, the local host communities plan and implement small projects in areas such as education, sanitation, health, irrigation, income generating activities, skill promotion and so on.

Disaster survivors

As the only implementing partner of ACT International, LWF Nepal carries out relief operations for disaster survivors in various phases. LWF Nepal gathered the latest information and proactively coordinated efforts to assist the flood survivors of 2007 in close collaboration with Nepal Red Cross Society, UN OCHA, community-based organisations, schools and Village Development Committees. In 2007, 350 families who survived floods in far-west Nepal received food support for seven days, and 550 families were provided with non-food items as emergency response. Special care of pregnant and lactating mothers and small children was taken.

A family of a disaster-affected village in Banke

Flood-affected students received 2250 sets of education materials and 3000 mothers with children below five years got supplementary food in mid- and far-west Nepal. The relief package and distribution method of LWF Nepal was appreciated by the beneficiaries.