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VerifiedNepal
“When the floods hit Rasuwa, I could not be on the ground, could not carry supplies, could not search the rubble. What I could do was sit at my desk overnight and build something that might help the people who could.”
The problem
After the flood, relief was stockpiled in one place while villages a few kilometres away got nothing. People who wanted to give did not know where to take things. People who needed help had no way to say so that anyone could trust.
What I built
A free platform in Nepali and English, with no login. People can report a missing person, mark themselves safe, ask for help, or find the nearest drop-off point. Volunteers and organisations can take a request and mark it delivered. Organisations register and carry a visible trust level. Drop centres record goods in a public ledger that anyone can download. The first version took one night.
Three decisions
A phone call before anything is published
A moderator phones to check each request. It is slower than publishing everything, but one false request can send a truck the wrong way.
It has to work without signal
Much of the affected area had no mobile data, so requests can be claimed with printed sheets and QR codes and entered later.
Show the work, hide the person
Every moderator decision goes into a public audit log. Names are masked, and phone numbers are visible only to the verified handler.
Where it stands
16 relief drop-off points verified and published across Kathmandu Valley, Nuwakot, Rasuwa, Dhading and Chitwan, including police, army and government collection points.
What is next
A ward-level register of what is needed and what has been delivered, built on the 753 municipalities in the government's BIPAD data. It exports in HXL and GeoJSON, the formats OCHA and HDX accept.