Nearly four weeks after Nepal’s August 26, 2026 floods, more than 1,000 children remained in temporary shelters, according to an assessment by Nepal’s National Child Rights Council and the nonprofit Save the Children, with data from September 4: 102 children were unaccompanied by any relative and 439 were separated from their parents and in the care of relatives.

More than 500 are living in those shelters with their parents dead or missing, and Nepali law requires a person to be missing for 12 years before they can be declared dead, with an exemption during disasters when relatives must seek a judicial declaration. A Nepal Police bulletin released on September 16 put the death toll at 1,404 with about 6,150 people still missing from the disaster, triggered by a glacier and rock collapse near the border with Tibet. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) estimates 32,000 children were displaced and said 18 schools were destroyed and 20 others damaged, leaving about 10,000 school-age children without classes.