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Mission Rebuild Nepal

Reports

All 38 reports, by year. Newest first.

2023

1 report

27 Jan 2023 — 27 Jan 2023

  1. Oxygen generators reach hospitals in Damak, Achham and KathmanduTwenty months after the Oxygen for Nepal consortium was formed, three generators funded by the America Nepal Medical Foundation were reported installed and working, along with one donated by Creasion. Six of the shipped plants were still waiting.Health

2022

1 report

21 Jul 2022 — 21 Jul 2022

  1. Oxygen plants leave France by sea after a year of freight negotiationsThe plants were meant to be airlifted in weeks. Instead they sat in a French factory for more than a year while a government tender failed, a war was invoked, and the crates had to be repacked to survive a sea voyage.Health

2021

4 reports

27 Mar 2021 — 8 Jul 2021

  1. The appeal shifts from buying oxygen plants to keeping them runningWith the generators bought, Mission Rebuild Nepal began asking for a different kind of money: transport to hospitals across the country, backup generators, spare parts and maintenance. The appeal reached more than six thousand people.Fundraising
  2. Nepal's government agrees to pay the airlift bill for ten oxygen generatorsMinisters approved public funding to fly the consortium's equipment in from France. The organisation told donors it was two to three weeks from shipping. It would be thirteen months, and the cargo would eventually travel by sea.Announcement
  3. Oxygen for Nepal consortium sets out its plan in KathmanduEight organisations went before the Nepali press at a quarter to ten on a Monday morning to explain how they intended to answer a national oxygen shortage with generators rather than cylinders.Health
  4. Board releases a second million rupees for the autism school in KathmanduMission Rebuild Nepal disburses its funding to SSDRC in stages, each one released only against evidence that the last stage was built. In March 2021 the board voted to release the next instalment.Education

2020

2 reports

3 Apr 2020 — 25 Jun 2020

  1. A district in eastern Nepal funds its own PCR laboratorySeveral hundred residents of Jhapa raised close to $100,000 in a matter of weeks to build a COVID-19 testing laboratory, then handed it to the government. Mission Rebuild Nepal contributed two lakh rupees.Health
  2. Food parcels for the people who carry everyone elseNepal's national lockdown removed the daily wage before it removed anything else. In Jhapa, Mission Rebuild Nepal and two local partners delivered food to the households that had no earnings to fall back on.Relief

2019

4 reports

7 Apr 2019 — 4 Dec 2019

  1. A year-end appeal, four seconds of text and a short filmMission Rebuild Nepal ended 2019 with the shortest appeal it ever wrote: one sentence over a short film, asking donors who cared about women's empowerment and access to education to remember it.Fundraising
  2. Salt Lake City gala raises money for a school in Kathmandu and a cafe in AgraA benefit dinner at a Salt Lake City arts warehouse on 27 July 2019 split its proceeds between the construction of Nepal's only autism school and Sheroes Hangout, which employs survivors of acid attacks.Fundraising
  3. Why one fundraising dinner was split between Kathmandu and AgraAhead of the 2019 gala, Mission Rebuild Nepal set out the reasoning behind an unusual pairing of causes: children with autism in Nepal, and survivors of acid attacks in India.Announcement
  4. Mission Rebuild Nepal picks the country's only autism school as its next projectForty-five children enrolled, more than four hundred on the waiting list, and a building that cannot hold any more of them. In April 2019 the organisation announced it would raise money for classrooms.Education

2018

2 reports

11 Jan 2018 — 23 Aug 2018

  1. Rajeshwori School stands finished in the village it was rebuilt forThe school whose grounds hosted the house handovers in 2016 reached its final stage in August 2018, with a second storey added and the building repainted.Education
  2. A second storey goes up on the school that hosted the handoversSeven months after closing its house-building programme, the organisation reported that the school extension at Sipapokhare was close to done.Education

2017

1 report

14 Jun 2017 — 14 Jun 2017

  1. Three weeks of counting confirms 800 houses, and closes the Sipapokhare projectA board member walked all nine wards of Sipapokhare and counted every house the organisation had built. The audit put the figure at 800, and with it the two-year rebuilding programme was declared complete.Reconstruction

2016

16 reports

4 Mar 2016 — 16 Dec 2016

  1. The first federal tax return goes onlineEighteen months after its 501(c)(3) status was approved, Mission Rebuild Nepal published its 2015 return in full and linked to it from its Facebook page.Announcement
  2. The last houses are handed over at SipapokhareEighteen months after the earthquakes, the organisation held its final handover ceremony in the village. Some people walked three hours to get there, drawn as much by the guest as by the keys.Reconstruction
  3. A dashboard breaks down who the houses actually reachedThe organisation published a demographic breakdown of the people living in the houses it had built: children, seniors, single women and, counted separately, Dalit and indigenous households.Reconstruction
  4. Runners in Salt Lake City turn a July morning into transition homesThe first 5K Run and Walk for Nepal was held in Salt Lake City on 30 July 2016, organised almost entirely by volunteers from Utah's Nepali community and covered by the Salt Lake Tribune.Fundraising
  5. Funding secured for 750 homes, with 250 still unpaid forA Nepali-language update set out the position in the middle of 2016: enough money raised for 750 houses, 500 of them standing, 250 under construction, and a further 250 families still waiting on donors.Reconstruction
  6. Two temple congregations become the project's steadiest donorsRajdhani Mandir in Northern Virginia and the Washington Kali Temple in Maryland gave repeatedly over two years. One of them audited the organisation before giving a second time, and gave more.Fundraising
  7. Kaalo Moso: a fraud policy that ends in public shamingThe board approved a policy under which any staff member, director or partner found guilty of financial mismanagement would be named publicly, their photograph blacked out, and every donor and news outlet told.Announcement
  8. A public register links every house to the donor who paid for itDonors were invited to look up, by name, exactly which household received the transition home they had funded. At the time the cost of one house was $450.Announcement
  9. The child who was trapped, and the house that followedAmong the hundreds of transition homes handed over at Sipapokhare, the organisation published one story in detail: a girl pulled from the rubble the year before, photographed outside her family's new house.Reconstruction
  10. Builders inspect the transition homes, then write a chequeThe board of a Nepali foundation, several of them former builders, visited the construction site unannounced in the organisation's terms, judged the houses good for more than ten years, and donated half a million rupees.Reconstruction
  11. Nepali press notes that private groups outpaced the reconstruction authorityA year after the earthquakes, Nepal's National Reconstruction Authority had barely begun. Janata Media reported that earthquake victims were getting more out of private efforts than out of the state, and named Mission Rebuild Nepal among them.Reconstruction
  12. Pittsburgh's Nepali community underwrites 68 familiesA community association and a Pennsylvania relief foundation funded houses for 68 displaced families, paying the second half only once the first 34 houses stood.Fundraising
  13. A security contractor's Gurkha payroll turns into a donationAegis Defense Services employed more than 650 Nepalese Gurkhas in Afghanistan. When Nepal's hills collapsed, the company invited Mission Rebuild Nepal to its Virginia headquarters and gave $10,000.Fundraising
  14. An American family pledges $200,000 in an uncle's nameThe largest single commitment the organisation ever received came from a family with no connection to Nepal, made in memory of a relative who had died.Fundraising
  15. Second handover fills the school ground at SipapokhareA hundred more houses changed hands in front of fifteen hundred villagers, bringing the running total to 368. Recipients held up printed cards naming the donors who had paid for their homes.Reconstruction
  16. A former US ambassador agrees to open the next handoverScott DeLisi, who served as United States ambassador to Nepal, agreed to act as chief guest at a handover ceremony in Sindhupalchowk, and his foundation began exploring a partnership.Announcement

2015

7 reports

8 May 2015 — 31 Dec 2015

  1. What $180,000 bought in eight monthsThe organisation closed its first year with a plain accounting: money raised, shelters delivered, houses in the pipeline, and a set of conclusions it had drawn about how the work should be done.Announcement
  2. Fuel crisis and border blockade stop the cement, and the buildingWith India's blockade choking supply into Nepal, a hundred half-built houses could not be finished. The organisation told donors it would buy cement at inflated prices to close them out, and then suspend work.Reconstruction
  3. First keys change hands at SipapokhareFour months after the earthquakes, the first completed transition homes were formally handed over in the village, with one of Nepal's best-known surgeons as chief guest.Reconstruction
  4. Free legal clinics help Nepalis in Virginia file for Temporary Protected StatusWhile its field teams built houses in Sindhupalchowk, the organisation ran a second, quieter operation in the Washington suburbs: pro bono immigration clinics for Nepalis whose status had changed after the earthquake.Announcement
  5. A prototype house, five days and $400Before it built eight hundred houses, the organisation built one, timed it, costed it, and published both numbers. The prototype took five days and $400, with the unit cost expected to fall at scale.Reconstruction
  6. A second earthquake finds the relief team on the mountainMission Rebuild Nepal's founders were distributing relief in a remote corner of Sindhupalchowk when the second major earthquake struck on 12 May 2015. Within a minute they had switched from handing out food to emergency medicine.Relief
  7. Mobile clinics, 1,500 tents and a village declared free of hungerThe first public account of the relief operation, published two weeks after the earthquake, lists what had been done in four village development committees across two districts.Relief

Every report here was written from primary material: the organisation’s own posts, its policy and narrative documents, and the photographs filed alongside them. The originals remain public.

The original posts (opens in a new tab)Governance documents

What the archive covers

The categories are not evenly filled, and that is the shape of the work rather than a gap in the record. The weight sits in the rebuilding years; what follows them tracks single causes, chosen one at a time.

Reports by category

Relief
3
Reconstruction
11
Education
4
Health
4
Fundraising
8
Announcement
8
Total
38