A safe place to stay
Families who have lost homes need shelter and basic household items while they work out what comes next.
Community Impact / Our intended first focus
Nepal.
Beyond
the flood.
On 26 August 2026, a flash flood devastated communities in northern Nepal. Families lost homes, livelihoods and the roads that connect them to help.
Understanding what happened is the first step towards a thoughtful response.
ESA: Nepal glacier collapse and flood – before and after. Contains Landsat-9 data, processed by ESA. CC BY 4.0. Image unchanged.
01 / What happened
A mountain event.
A disaster downstream.
ESA’s satellite analysis links the flood to a sudden slope failure and glacier collapse near the Nepal–China border. Water, ice and debris surged into the river valleys below.
The flood travelled through the Lende Khola and Trishuli valleys. For people downstream, damage to a bridge or road also meant losing a route to supplies, work and support.
Event explanation: ESA, 31 August 2026. Access and damage: IFRC, 27 August 2026.
- At the source
Ice and rock collapse
A sudden mountain collapse set a destructive chain of events in motion.
- Along the valleys
Floodwater and debris
Rivers carried the surge towards communities downstream.
- Across communities
Homes and access lost
Damaged roads and bridges made reaching affected people harder.
BEFORE · 12 AUG 2026AFTER · 27 AUG 2026
02 / See the change
The river tells
part of the story.
Compare the Trishuli River before and after the flood. Look at the muddy channel near the river label and follow it towards the left of the image.
Both views are real Sentinel-2 observations of the same area. They show a landscape changing; they cannot tell us everything a family has lost.
Behind the changed landscape are people trying to make daily life possible again.
03 / Why help matters
Safety today.
A way forward tomorrow.
Relief agencies describe needs that extend beyond the initial emergency. IFRC’s appeal includes a 24-month response and recovery programme.
Water and everyday essentials
Clean water, sanitation and hygiene supplies are part of the response, alongside food and emergency items.
Support through recovery
Cash assistance and sustained recovery support can help affected households address needs beyond the first days.
04 / Watch & read
See the reporting.
Hear the human stories.
Choose a short report, a longer explainer or a story of evacuation. News coverage includes flooding and distress. Each video stays with its original publisher.
Glacier collapse may have triggered Nepal flash flood
Reuters · 27 August 2026 · 33 seconds
Watch on YouTube ↗Did a glacier collapse trigger Nepal’s deadly floods?
BBC News · 27 August 2026 · 13 minutes 35 seconds
Watch on YouTube ↗How a warning and one teacher’s instincts saved an entire school
Global News · 31 August 2026 · 3 minutes 33 seconds
Watch on YouTube ↗Follow the flood through maps, photos and video.
ABC’s visual explainer brings together mapped footage and satellite comparisons along the flood’s path.
Open the ABC visual story ↗See the response on the ground.
A photo report shows damaged riverbanks and Nepal Red Cross teams preparing and unloading relief supplies.
View the relief photo report ↗05 / Our role
From a shared practice
to a shared purpose.
Physio-Qi brings our Gold Coast community together around movement, connection and wellbeing. We want that care to reach beyond our own sessions.
Nepal is our intended first focus because the need is immediate and recovery will take time. Our proposed contribution would support an established relief organisation with the capacity to respond.
Our role is to build awareness and prepare a responsible contribution. The people and agencies responding in Nepal remain at the centre of this story.
GC initiative: in preparation. We are confirming the recipient, contribution commitment, included sessions and transfer timing. No funds raised, transfers or aid outcomes are claimed here. The organisations featured above are information sources; no partnership or endorsement is implied.
How our contribution records will work →Session dates and campaign timing
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- Sunday 13 September 2026View booking →
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Campaign start: to be confirmed. Proposed end: 31 December 2026. City of Gold Coast session listing, checked 6 September 2026.
Campaign figures and contribution records
Our record
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Bookings, attendance, class revenue and contributions describe different things. We will keep them separate and publish figures only after they have been checked.
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Sources / Image credits
Follow every story
back to its source.
This page covers the 26 August 2026 flood. Source dates are shown so older reporting is not mistaken for a live update. Evolving casualty and missing-person estimates are left to the original news reports.
- European Space Agency — satellite analysis · 31 August 2026. Event sequence and imagery; individual image licences are linked in their captions.
- IFRC — Nepal emergency appeal and recovery priorities · 27 August 2026.
- Australian Red Cross — current Global Emergency Fund information · updated 4 September 2026; checked 6 September. The fund permits alternative use where funds cannot be used as described. Its current Nepal focus does not guarantee a Nepal-specific year-end contribution.
How images and videos are used
ESA’s three satellite images are reproduced under the Creative Commons licences shown beside them, with source titles, credits and dates. The supplied image files are unchanged; the before-and-after comparison presentation is offered under CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.
News videos use the original YouTube players and retain direct publisher links. ABC and Red Cross photographs are viewed on their own sites; they have not been copied into this website. These visuals document the wider disaster and response, not GC-funded activity.