Phase 1: Immediate Response
Our GEM USA and GEM Asia teams are on the ground in Nepal, working around the clock to find real solutions for the thousands of people impacted by this devastating disaster.
In the above video, you’ll see two fully-loaded GEM relief trucks carrying vital supplies to a forward base camp. From there, in close coordination with the Government of Nepal, the U.S. State Department, and our teams on the ground, aid will move into communities that remain hard to reach.
Multiple humanitarian cargo flights will depart this week from our GEM headquarters in Miami and our GEM Europe branch in Warsaw, Poland, delivering critical shelter materials and life-saving relief valued at over $1 million dollars.
In partnership with Nepal Peace Scouts, whom we’ve worked with since the 2023 Nepal earthquake, GEM has stepped in to care for 40 newly orphaned children. Nepal Peace Scouts is a respected 67-year-old Nepalese organization with over 1,000 volunteers and deep roots in communities across the country.
Together, we are ensuring these children receive a new safe home, nutritious food, clothing, and daily care for the next six months, side by side with our trusted local partner Nepal Peace Scouts
Our teams will remain on the ground for as long as needed, adapting to the severity and evolving needs of this disaster. Tragically, many more children have been orphaned, and their protection and care will remain a core focus of GEM’s response.
Special thanks to Aerial Recovery Group.
On September 1st, our GEM Asia teams completed an extraordinary 19-hour journey through the Himalayas to reach Dhunche in the Rasuwa District, navigating washed-out, muddy roads, heavy rain and river crossings. Vehicles became stuck repeatedly along the route, but our team and local drivers pushed through extremely difficult conditions to deliver two full trucks of critical humanitarian aid to communities devastated by the disaster.
GEM Asia delivered essential supplies, including rice, water, lentils, baby food and formula, diapers, feminine hygiene products, toiletries, cooking oil, clothing and other necessities to the military base in Dhunche, where supplies are being moved by helicopter into isolated communities.
Our local partners and government counterparts are helping ensure GEM supplies continue moving directly to affected families, including displaced families currently sheltering in Dhunche. Our teams remain on the ground coordinating with local authorities, identifying underserved communities and assessing evolving needs.
Reaching this region was exceptionally difficult, but this is exactly why GEM is here: to reach families and communities that others have not yet been able to reach. Nepal’s first formal government situation report now estimates 1.6 million people affected, with Rasuwa and Nuwakot severely impacted. More than 14,400 people across 3,700 households remain isolated in remote municipalities due to disrupted roads, power and communications.
GEM has multiple cargo flights mobilized and larger influxes of aid is on the way.
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