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Severe flooding in the Tibet-Nepal border region has caused significant infrastructure damage, leaving communities isolated and complicating rescue efforts. Aid organizations are struggling to reach affected areas as roads and communication lines remain severed.
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The disaster has disrupted critical trade routes and created an urgent humanitarian crisis, with thousands of households in need of emergency supplies.
Communities difficult to reach, aid organisation says D By Daniela Pizzirani
International aid organisation CARE Nepal says reaching people is the most difficult aspect of the response so far.
Washed-out roads and destroyed bridges have left the worst-affected communities extremely difficult to reach, especially in Rasuwa .
"The access, be it road and communication, all those things are very difficult," says CARE Nepal country director Mona Sherpa.
"Relief efforts prioritise those most in need, particularly women, girls, older people, and people with disabilities, who are often hit hardest in the aftermath of a disaster like this."
Beyond the immediate rescue, communities face challenges around shelter, food, safe water, health services, protection and ways to earn a living again, she said.
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