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Rasuwa, after the water.

Photographs from the flood and its aftermath. Open an album to see inside.

Album 01 Field visit — September 2026 Photographs from the 19 September 2026 visit to the flood-hit Rasuwa riverside. 10 photographs · open · close
Multi-storey riverside houses with walls and floors torn away, standing in silt and rubble
Rasuwa · Nepal Homes torn open by the river
Painted houses standing above a wide plain of grey silt beside the river
Rasuwa · Nepal Houses left standing in the silt
A green house left at the edge of the riverbank with debris scattered around it
Rasuwa · Nepal A house on the new riverbank
A Cry for Nepal team member at the site, pointing towards a silt-covered house
Rasuwa · Nepal Seeing the damage first-hand
Workers in high-visibility vests and helmets with a generator among boulders by the river
Rasuwa · Nepal Rescue teams at work
People and rescue workers gathered with luggage on the rocks beside the river
Rasuwa · Nepal Waiting to cross the river
People standing on a mound of debris and silt above the valley
Rasuwa · Nepal Crossing over the debris
Two men looking out over collapsed buildings and a silt-filled riverbed
Rasuwa · Nepal Assessing what is left
Shopfronts along a street buried to the first floor in mud and rubble
Rasuwa · Nepal A street under the silt
Small houses filled with silt, standing in the grey plain left by the flood
Rasuwa · Nepal Houses filled to the roof
Album 02 The Rasuwa floods The surge, the damage and the valley Cry for Nepal is helping rebuild. 9 photographs · open · close
Aerial view of a settlement with buildings destroyed along the river's new course
Rasuwa · Nepal A town rewritten by the river
A concrete road bridge collapsing into the swollen, debris-filled river
Rasuwa · Nepal The road out, gone
The swollen river cutting through a green Himalayan valley beside a village
Rasuwa · Nepal The valley in full flood
A village street filled with mud, silt and wreckage after the floodwater passed
Rasuwa · Nepal Streets under a metre of mud
A wall of floodwater and debris surging down the hillside behind homes in Rasuwa
Rasuwa · Nepal The surge reaches the settlement
A riverside town left buried in silt and rubble after the flood receded
Rasuwa · Nepal What the water left behind
A hillside town beside the raging brown river during the flood
Rasuwa · Nepal Watching the water rise
A wide fan of silt and destroyed houses across the valley floor
Rasuwa · Nepal Farmland buried in silt
Aerial view of a village stranded on a ridge above the flooded river
Rasuwa · Nepal Cut off on the ridge

These families are still rebuilding.

The photographs are the easy part to look at. Recovery takes months, and it takes funding.

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